Pick of the week

THE POWER

ELECTRIFYING DRAMA How would the world change if teenage girls all over the planet suddenly developed the ability to generate electricity in their bodies and channel it out through their hands in devastating fashion? That’s the intriguing premise behind this gripping ninepart drama. Toni Collette (The Staircase) and John Leguizamo (The Menu, above left with Collette) star as the grown-ups who discover that the balance of power between the genders is shifting forever. Like the Naomi Alderman novel it’s based on, this is thought-provoking stuff, offering a flipside to the world of The Handmaid’s Tale where young women never have to fear the threat of male violence and control again. Episodes 1-3 from Friday then weekly, Amazon Prime