List of Power episodes

Power is an American drama television series created by Courtney A. Kemp that premiered on June 7, 2014, on Starz. The series follows James St. Patrick (played by Omari Hardwick), nicknamed “Ghost”, owner of a popular New York City nightclub, and a major player in one of the city’s biggest illegal drug networks. He struggles to balance these two lives, and the balance topples when he realizes he wants to leave the drug ring in order to support his legitimate business, and commit to his mistress.

During the course of the series, sixty-three episodes of Power aired over six seasons, between June 7, 2014, and February 9, 2020.

Series overview

Season		Episodes	Originally aired
Season		Episodes	First aired	Last aired
	1	8	June 7, 2014	August 2, 2014
	2	10	June 6, 2015	August 15, 2015
	3	10	July 17, 2016	September 25, 2016
	4	10	June 25, 2017	September 3, 2017
	5	10	July 1, 2018	September 9, 2018
	6	15	August 25, 2019	February 9, 2020

Episodes

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Season 1 (2014)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
1	1	“Not Exactly How We Planned”	Anthony Hemingway	Courtney A. Kemp	June 7, 2014	0.46
2	2	“Whoever He Is”	Anthony Hemingway	Courtney A. Kemp	June 14, 2014	0.61
3	3	“This Is Real”	John David Coles	Lauren Schmidt Hissrich	June 21, 2014	0.47
4	4	“Who Are You?”	John David Coles	Sascha Penn	June 28, 2014	0.56
5	5	“I Gotta Go”	George Tillman Jr.	Randy Huggins	July 12, 2014	0.53
6	6	“Who You With?”	George Tillman Jr.	Salvatore Stabile	July 19, 2014	0.75
7	7	“Loyalty”	Kari Skogland	Raphael Jackson Jr. & Damione Macedon	July 26, 2014	0.75
8	8	“Best Laid Plans”	Kari Skogland	Courtney A. Kemp & Vladimir Cvetko	August 2, 2014	1.08

Season 2 (2015)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
9	1	“Consequences”	Simon Cellan Jones	Courtney A. Kemp	June 6, 2015	1.43
10	2	“No Friends on the Street”	Stefan Schwartz	Gary Lennon	June 13, 2015	1.12
11	3	“Like We’re Any Other Couple”	David Knoller	Randy Huggins	June 20, 2015	1.11
12	4	“You’re the Only Person I Can Trust”	Bill Johnson	Lauren Schmidt	June 27, 2015	1.30
13	5	“Who You Are and Who You Want to Be”	David Knoller	Raphael Jackson Jr. & Damione Macedon	July 11, 2015	1.25
14	6	“Why Her?”	Sanford Bookstaver	Gary Lennon	July 18, 2015	1.25
15	7	“You’re Not the Man”	Dennie Gordon	Vladimir Cvetko	July 25, 2015	1.26
16	8	“Three Moves Ahead”	Rob Hardy	Randy Huggins	August 1, 2015	1.04
17	9	“Time’s Up”	Jim McKay	Raphael Jackson Jr. & Damione Macedon	August 8, 2015	1.37
18	10	“Ghost Is Dead”	Michael J. Bassett	Courtney A. Kemp & Safia Dirie	August 15, 2015	1.54

Season 3 (2016)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
19	1	“Call Me James”	George Tillman Jr.	Courtney A. Kemp	July 17, 2016	2.26
20	2	“It’s Never Over”	Sanford Bookstaver	Gary Lennon	July 24, 2016	1.74
21	3	“I Got This on Lock”	Lukas Ettlin	Sinchi Walter Langa	July 31, 2016	1.88
22	4	“Don’t Worry, Baby”	Larysa Kondracki	Heather Zuhlke	August 7, 2016	1.72
23	5	“Help Me”	Sanford Bookstaver	Damione Macedon & Raphael Jackson Jr.	August 14, 2016	1.80
24	6	“The Right Decision”	Michael J. Bassett	Vladimir Cvetko	August 21, 2016	2.11
25	7	“Don’t Go”	Rob Hardy	Safia M. Dirie	August 28, 2016	1.84
26	8	“Trust Me”	Jim McKay	Gary Lennon	September 4, 2016	1.99
27	9	“I Call the Shots”	Magnus Martens	Damione Macedon & Raphael Jackson Jr.	September 18, 2016	2.04
28	10	“In My Best Interest”	Michael J. Bassett	Courtney A. Kemp & Jeff Dix	September 25, 2016	2.01

Season 4 (2017)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
29	1	“When I Get Out”	Stefan Schwartz	Courtney A. Kemp	June 25, 2017	1.68
30	2	“Things Are Going to Get Worse”	Sanford Bookstaver	Heather Zuhlke	July 2, 2017	1.44
31	3	“The Kind of Man You Are”	Larysa Kondracki	Jeff Dix	July 9, 2017	1.72
32	4	“We’re in This Together”	J. Michael Muro	Warren Hsu Leonard	July 16, 2017	1.72
33	5	“Don’t Thank Me”	Sanford Bookstaver	Raphael Jackson, Jr. & Damione Macedon	July 23, 2017	1.79
34	6	“New Man”	Dennie Gordon	Gary Lennon	July 30, 2017	1.83
35	7	“You Lied to My Face”	Sanford Bookstaver	Vladimir Cvetko	August 6, 2017	1.69
36	8	“It’s Done”	Hernán Otoño	Raphael Jackson, Jr. & Damione Macedon	August 13, 2017	1.81
37	9	“That Ain’t Me”	Victoria Mahoney	Raphael Jackson, Jr. & Damione Macedon	August 20, 2017	1.90
38	10	“You Can’t Fix This”	Rob Hardy	Courtney A. Kemp & Monica Mitchell	September 3, 2017	2.00

Season 5 (2018)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
39	1	“Everyone Is Implicated”	Stefan Schwartz	Courtney A. Kemp	July 1, 2018	1.55
40	2	“Damage Control”	Solvan Naim	Heather Zuhlke	July 8, 2018	0.70
41	3	“Are We On the Same Team?”	Tina Mabry	Vladimir Cvetko	July 15, 2018	1.50
42	4	“Second Chances”	Bart Wenrich	Jeff Dix	July 22, 2018	1.36
43	5	“Happy Birthday”	Sanford Bookstaver	Safia M. Dirie	July 29, 2018	1.35
44	6	“A Changed Man?”	Ami Canaan Mann	Monica Mitchell	August 5, 2018	1.33
45	7	“The Devil Inside”	Rob Hardy	Heather Zuhlke	August 12, 2018	1.41
46	8	“A Friend of the Family”	Hernán Otoño	Vladimir Cvetko & Safia M. Dirie	August 26, 2018	1.46
47	9	“There’s a Snitch Among Us”	Gary Lennon	Gary Lennon	September 2, 2018	1.42
48	10	“When This Is Over”	MJ Bassett	Courtney A. Kemp & Gabriela Uribe	September 9, 2018	1.53

Season 6 (2019–20)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
49	1	“Murderers”	David Rodriguez	Andre J. Ferguson and Courtney A. Kemp	August 25, 2019	1.47
50	2	“Whose Side Are You On”	Hernán Otoño	Monica Mitchell	September 1, 2019	1.07
51	3	“Forgot About Dre”	Curtis Jackson	Theo Travers	September 8, 2019	1.12
52	4	“Why Is Tommy Still Alive?”	Kieron Hawkes	Matt K. Turner	September 15, 2019	1.17
53	5	“King’s Gambit”	Sanford Bookstaver	Gabriela Uribe	September 22, 2019	1.24
54	6	“Inside Man”	Shana Stein	Eric Haywood	September 29, 2019	1.24
55	7	“Like Father, Like Son”	Solvan Naim	Andre J. Ferugson	October 6, 2019	1.39
56	8	“Deal with the Devil”	Bart Wenrich	Monica Mitchell & Gabriela Uribe	October 13, 2019	1.26
57	9	“Scorched Earth”	Gary Lennon	Gary Lennon	October 27, 2019	1.22
58	10	“No One Can Stop Me”	Shana Stein	Courtney A. Kemp	November 3, 2019	1.17
59	11	“Still DRE”	Kieron Hawkes	Matt K. Turner	January 5, 2020	1.24
60	12	“He Always Wins”	Bart Wenrich	Monica Mitchell	January 12, 2020	1.05
61	13	“It’s All Your Fault”	Hernán Otoño	Theo Travers	January 19, 2020	0.90
62	14	“Reversal of Fortune”	Mario Van Peebles	Eric Haywood	January 26, 2020	1.06
63	15	“Exactly How We Planned”	Anthony Hemingway	Courtney A. Kemp & Gabriela Uribe	February 9, 2020	1.19

Ratings

Power : U.S. viewers per episode (millions)

Season		Episode number															Average
Season		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	Average
	1	0.46	0.61	0.47	0.56	0.53	0.75	0.75	1.08	N/A							0.65
	2	1.43	1.12	1.11	1.30	1.25	1.25	1.26	1.04	1.37	1.54	N/A					1.24
	3	2.26	1.74	1.88	1.72	1.80	2.11	1.84	1.99	2.04	2.01	N/A					1.94
	4	1.68	1.44	1.72	1.72	1.79	1.83	1.69	1.81	1.90	2.00	N/A					1.76
	5	1.55	0.70	1.50	1.36	1.35	1.33	1.41	1.46	1.42	1.53	N/A					1.36
	6	1.47	1.07	1.12	1.17	1.24	1.24	1.39	1.26	1.22	1.17	1.24	1.05	0.90	1.06	1.19	1.22

Audience measurement performed by Nielsen Media Research.