Here are some of the highlights selected by The Times’s TV critics: Television this year offered ingenuity, humor, defiance and hope.
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When the series returns for its fourth season, we’ll likely find him trying to clear his name of a murder charge. (In the end it didn’t.) It’s also an examination of the ugly fits and starts that occur when you try to untangle yourself from the past, a reminder that starting over is complicated. Season 3 managed to stretch that tension into a taut emotional rubber band, leaving us to believe it could snap at any moment. In some respects, it’s a case study in how relationships fray when lives that once shared a parallel vision diverge. The core of “Power” has always been the relationship between Ghost and Tommy Egan (Joseph Sikora). In the final minutes of Sunday’s episode, “In My Best Interest,” viewers find his son, Tariq, (Michael Rainey Jr.) being held for ransom by Kanan (Curtis Jackson, known as 50 Cent), one of Ghost’s former associates turned enemy. Unfortunately, that lack of attention may prove deadly in Season 4. Never mind that he’s still legally married to Tasha (Naturi Naughton) and hasn’t been particularly present to his children as their family dynamic shifts.
Season 3 opened with Ghost focusing on his promising nightclub business, and sloppily trying to balance a new life with the federal agent Angela Valdes (Lela Loren). Let’s take a quick look at the finale and what it might mean for Season 4. It seems that every move he makes toward freedom is met with a devastating blow, often from places he least expects. Patrick, known as Ghost, ( Omari Hardwick) ever move on from his drug past - is one that increasingly seems like it may never be answered. The question that looms over the series - can James St. The Starz show “Power” ended its third season Sunday night not far from where it began.