The Power: Confirmed release date, cast and new full trailer for Prime Video's Naomi Alderman adaptation

The Power has been top of everyone’s reading list – including Barack Obama’s – since it was published in 2016, and now the science fiction tale is coming to TV with an international cast including the Oscar-nominated Toni Collette.

British author Naomi Alderman’s bestselling novel about a huge global power shift that sees women able to electrocute people with a touch of their fingertips has sparked a much-anticipated series for Prime Video.

The series features a cast of remarkable characters from London to Seattle and Nigeria to Eastern Europe as the Power evolves from a tingle in teenagers’ collarbones to a complete reversal of the power balance of the world.

Here’s all you need to know about its release date, plot, cast list, trailer and more.

What is The Power release date on Prime Video?

The Power episodes 1-3 are available now on Prime Video.

New episodes will be available to watch every Friday, leading up to the season finale on 12 May.

• The Power episode 4 - released Friday, 7 April
• The Power episode 5 - released Friday, 14 April
• The Power episode 6 - released Friday, 21 April
• The Power episode 7 - released Friday, 28 April
• The Power episode 8 - released Friday, 5 May
• The Power episode 9 - released Friday, 12 May

How many episodes of The Power are there?

The Power season 1 will have nine episodes. New episodes are released weekly on Prime Video.

The Power - Full trailer

From trophy to tyrant, outcast to outlaw, loner to leader, mayor to mutineer... how will The Power transform you?

Today (23 February), Prime Video debuted the electrifying official trailer for the global thriller The Power.

The emotionally driven series is created by producers SISTER (Chernobyl) and showrunner Raelle Tucker (True Blood, Jessica Jones).

First look - The Power teaser

The Power is our world, but for one twist of nature. Suddenly, and without warning, teenage girls develop the power to electrocute people at will.

The series features a cast of remarkable characters from London to Seattle, Nigeria to Eastern Europe, as the Power evolves from a tingle in teenagers’ collarbones to a complete reversal of the power balance of the world.

The Power plot summary

The Power is set in a world much the same as ours, except for one twist of nature – suddenly, all teenage girls across the globe develop the ability to electrocute people through their fingertips thanks to an in-built, hereditary power that can’t be taken away from them.

Before long, they realise that they can awaken the ability in older women, too, heralding a new age of control that puts women in charge and enables them to hurt or even kill.

Overnight, everything is different as women become dominant and men are left fearful of teenage girls, with boys put into single-sex schools for their own protection.

Mayor of Seattle Margot Cleary-Lopez, a charming and quick-witted politician, wife and mother-of-three who has been on the rise in a man’s world, is the lead character in the TV adaptation.

She has been all too aware that real power comes from strength rather than authority, having been the victim of online trolling for trivial details such as her fashion choices no matter how hard she works in her career.

Outwardly, she’s a loving and devoted wife and mother, but when her power is awakened, her husband Rob and daughter Jos begin to keenly feel the effects of her success – one of them finding they understand her better, and the other one suffering hurt and betrayal.

Series 1 will also follow a host of other newly empowered women across the world, including Allie, a vulnerable American foster kid who reinvents herself as a faith leader, and Roxy, the daughter of a London crime boss.

What starts as a tingle in the collarbones of teenage girls fast develops into The Day of the Girls, a complete reversal of the power balance in every country. But where will it end?

Is The Power based on the book of the same name?

Yes, The Power is based on the science fiction novel The Power by Naomi Alderman, pictured above.

Published in 2016 it, became a global bestseller, winning the 2017 Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction and even making it onto former US President Barack Obama’s list of favourite books in the same year.

It’s perfect material for a TV adaptation and now Prime Video are set to bring the dystopian tale to the small screen.

The Power cast

The Power cast includes Australian star Toni Collette (Knives Out, Muriel's Wedding), who replaced Leslie Mann in the role of Mayor Margot, Moana's Auli'l Cravalho, John Leguizamo and Eddie Marsan.

Meet the cast of The Power: Full list

Stream episodes 1-3 of The Power on Prime Video from Friday, 31 March.