Power creator explains the series finale: "It has to do with my obsession with Shakespeare, obviously"

Entertainment Weekly

"I mean, that doesn’t surprise you," Courtney Kemp says of ending the "Who shot Ghost" mystery. "I’m traditional, I’m a classical storyteller. If you go through everything that we’ve done on the show, you will see classical roots in almost every cliffhanger and wild twist and turn; I’m not reinventing the wheel. It looks different because of who’s playing the characters, but this is not any more shocking than the character of Livia in I, Claudius conspiring to kill one of her own sons. These classical things really have inspired us in the Shakespearean way. Then, to use a more modern phrase, the superhero rules of things: If we were going to kill Ghost off, there were very few characters for whom that would have made sense, or for whom the audience would have accepted it."

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