Well, like all good balls, it seems Pose is coming to an end.
After two seasons that saw the show make history for its inclusion and portraits of black and brown LGBTQ + communities, FX’s Pose announced its final season.
“Good morning, America. I’m co-creator and executive producer for Steven Canals Pose“, Canals said in a video posted on Twitter.” Our audience has been so incredibly supportive of the show and I wanted to tell you directly that our new season, which will debut on FX on Sunday, May 2nd, will be the last. “
Pose debuted at FX in 2018. At the time, it made history by including black and brown queer and trans talent both on and off the screen. He featured actors like Mj Rodriguez, Indya Moore and Dominique Jackson in leading roles, as well as others like Billy Porter and Ryan Jamaal Swain. The first season provided an insight into the LGBTQ + community of the 1980s, notably through the then flourishing ballroom community. This formation opposite Evan Peters, James Van Der Beek and Kate Mara, who represented a kind of “white establishment” in New York City.
A creation of Canals, as well as executive producer Ryan Murphy, and writer, director and producer Janet Mock, the second season narrowed, leaving Peters, Van Der Beek and Mara to focus directly on the rest of the set. Pose it quickly became a program centered on the lives of black and brown trans women, telling their stories in different ways, weaving into historical narratives, often having to deal with the then growing AIDS epidemic. It was through the experiences of writers like Mock and Our Lady J that authenticity was brought to the show. The series was often acclaimed for this.
Billy Porter became the first gay black man to win an acting Emmy for his performance of Pray Tell on the show.
Third season of Pose was announced as soon as the second season started. The ongoing global pandemic caused a start and an interruption in production and could jeopardize the kissing scenes, as well as the show’s ballroom component, which depends on having more than 100 actors in a room.
“It was a very difficult decision for us, but this was an incredible journey and we were telling the story we wanted to tell, the way we wanted to tell it.” The channels continued. “Although we know that you will be sad to see the show go, this season will be filled with all the love, laughter and tears that you expect from the Evangelist family. I, along with my collaborators on television, never intended to change the television landscape. I just wanted to tell an honest story about family, resilience and love. “
“We love you and hope you will join us in celebrating this last season,” he concluded.
On the set of the second season, Murphy foreshadowed this imminent end in an interview with Outside.
“For me, the program has always been about the demolition of a community that refused to be silenced,” Murphy told us at the time, saying that his final season would take place between 1995-96, when antiviral drugs were developed to help fight the disease. HIV. “The show is really about a group of marginalized people saying, ‘I have a right to be here.'”
After the third season debut on FX, it is likely to debut on Netflix as in previous seasons.
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