The first trailer for the fifth and final season of Power Book III: Raising Kanan answers the question hanging over the show since the Season 4 finale: Kanan Stark did not kill his mother, Raq Thomas, because she is back. The new footage also sets a start date, with the final season premiering Friday, June 12, and new episodes streaming weekly on Fridays via Starz.
The trailer opens with Kanan, played by Mekai Curtis, saying, “If you didn’t hate me before, you’re gonna hate me now,” and quickly makes clear that his family war is only getting uglier. Raq, played by Patina Miller, fires back, “You ain’t never have an enemy like me, Kanan,” before Kanan answers, “I’ve had you as an enemy my whole life.”
That exchange gives the trailer its weight, but the clip does more than settle one cliffhanger. It shows Kanan and Breeze entering a new business partnership, and it places them alongside Snaps and Pop, the pair played by Wendell Pierce and Erika Woods. Breeze is played by Shameik Moore. The footage also shows Kanan and Stefano Marchetti, played by Tony Danza, talking through how things with her could get messy, before Kanan tells Marchetti, “Do what you gotta do.”
The series has spent four seasons turning the father-son mythology of the larger Power universe into a crime family story with a brutal center. Created by Sascha Penn and executive produced by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, it tracks Kanan’s rise long before the character became the version first seen in the original Power series, where Curtis played him. That background matters because the new trailer is not just teasing another round of violence; it is closing in on the endpoint of a story that began with Kanan as a son and kept asking how far he would go to become the man he is known as.
The tension in the trailer comes from what it refuses to soften. Raq is alive, the family fight is not over, and Kanan is now moving deeper into business with people who can help him or bury him. The final season also arrives as the franchise expands: Curtis is already part of the cast for Power: Origins, which also includes young Ghost, played by Spence Moore II, and young Tommy, played by Charlie Mann. For viewers who have waited since the Season 4 finale for an answer, the trailer gives one immediately and leaves the larger reckoning in place for June 12.
