The category is: final seasons.
Emmy and Peabody Award-winning FX’s groundbreaking drama Pose will come to an end with its previously announced third season. In making the announcement, the basic cable network owned by Disney revealed that the final season will consist of seven abbreviated episodes. This is less than eight and ten in seasons one and two, respectively. The last season opens on Sunday, May 2, at 10 pm, with two episodes; the series finale will air on June 6.
“We have to tell the exact story we wanted, how we wanted to tell it, and I am incredibly honored and grateful,” said co-creator Ryan Murphy in a statement on Friday.
Pose was one of Murphy’s last remaining shows that he created before surprising the industry and changing his old Disney Television-sponsored 20th General agreement to Netflix. Since then, Pose Executive producer and director Janet Mock accompanied Murphy to Netflix with his own innovative general agreement. Co-creator Steven Canals, however, stayed at Disney and signed his own pact with 20th Television and is already preparing another LGBTQ-themed series for FX.
“’Write the TV show you want to watch!’ That’s what I was told in 2014, while completing my master’s degree in scriptwriting, “said Canals in a statement on Friday.” At the time, we didn’t see many Black and Latinx characters – who happened to be LGBTQ + – filling in screens. And then I wrote the first draft of a pilot that the ‘younger me’ deserved. Pose it was conceived as a love letter to the underground New York ballroom community, to my beloved New York, to my gay and trans family, to myself. I, along with my incredible collaborators, never intended to change the TV landscape. I simply wanted to tell an honest story about family, resilience and love. I am fortunate to have done this for three seasons. I am filled with gratitude to our intrepid writers, cast, crew and producers who have worked tirelessly to make Pose come alive, humiliated by our loyal audience, grateful to the ballroom community who trusted us to tell their story, overwhelmed by the critics who warmly and eternally grateful to Ryan Murphy, FX and 20th Television for changing my life. “
Pose marked a renewal at the beginning of the third season in June 2019, before his return in the second year. The series – which also features Brad Falchuk, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Alexis Martin Woodall and Sherry Marsh among its executive producers – had just finished filming the third season premiere when the pandemic forced production around the world to end. . The last season will jump from 1991 to 1994, when the ballroom seems a distant memory for Blanca (star of the series Mj Rodriguez), who struggles to balance being a mother with being a current partner of her new love and her last role as a helper. of nursing . Meanwhile, as AIDS becomes the leading cause of death among Americans aged 25 to 44, Pray Tell (Emmy winner Billy Porter) faces unexpected health problems. Elsewhere, the emergence of a new and vicious new home forces members of the Casa Evangelista to fight against their legacy.
The decision to end the series comes after Canals said earlier The Hollywood Reporter that when he launched Pose, he envisioned the series in five seasons. “With that said, could it be a season of four? Would it be a season of six? Sure,” he said. THR in August 2019. “It could be more or less. What is really important for all of us – and perhaps more specifically for Ryan, Brad and me – is that we feel that we are telling the story that we intended to tell. As soon as we reach that point, we will know it’s time to end this. “
While three seasons may seem like a shorter duration than anyone would expect, Pose left an indelible mark on the TV scene. The drama made history on TV by featuring a record number of trans characters played by trans actors, with a cast that includes Porter – who became the first openly gay man to win the Emmy for Lead Actor – and Mock qualifying as the first woman color trans hired as a screenwriter for a TV series, as well as the first black transgender woman to write and direct a TV episode. Pose it also has the largest recurring cast of LGBTQ actors in a scripted series. Rodriguez, Porter, Dominique Jackson, Indya Moore and Hailie Sahar star opposite Dyllón Burnside, Angel Bismark Curiel, Sandra Bernhard and Jason A. Rodriguez.
“Words cannot truly express my gratitude and appreciation for those who gave FX and the world the gift it is Pose, ”Said FX President John Landgraf. “Ryan Murphy, Steven Canals, our unparalleled cast and their collaborators have created a masterpiece and have left an indelible legacy that will open doors, new doors, for the trans community. Pose is proof that Ryan, Dana’s and ours commitment to giving under-represented writers, directors, producers, actors and artisans more opportunities was not meant to signal our virtue – but because our world is literally filled with untapped geniuses looking for nothing more than a chance to prove your extraordinary talent, beauty and value in the story market. Pose it has always been a family drama – a drama about acceptance and inclusion, pain and joy, struggle and perseverance and, above all, love. The third and final season is a fitting and beautiful ending to this story. “
With the conclusion of Pose, The FX scripted original list includes anthologies produced by Murphy american horror story and American Crime Story; Donald Glover’s Atlanta; Pamela Adlon Best things, as Breeders, Dave, Mayans, Mr Entre, Snowfall, What We Do in the Shadows It is the next Reserve Dogs, Shogun, Platform and Gun, among others. Many of FX’s originals moved to debut first on its streaming hub, FX on Hulu, including Y: The Last Man, Jeff Bridges article The old man and Murphy’s episodic anthology American horror stories.
“Pose represents a great source of pride for all of us within Disney television studios, “said Walt Disney TV entertainment director Dana Walden.” This program demonstrates the power of our industry to illuminate the under-represented and to point to our common humanity – and to do so with brilliance, taste and pure fabulousness! Special thanks to Ryan for introducing us to voices like Steven Canals and Janet Mock, and then for opening the way for them to do their best work. And although we are sad to say goodbye to the program at the end of this season, the audience is about to have a beautiful and exciting final trip. “
As for Murphy, the prolific showrunner list of originals scripted for Disney’s twentieth TV includes Netflix’s Ratched and The politician just like Fox’s 911 and spinoff, 911: Lone Star, and the FX / FX at the Hulu entrances American Crime Story, American Horror Story and spinoff American horror stories. Netflix’s Murphy list includes mini A Chorus Line, Halston and Monster, among others. Mock exec produces the latter, making an appointment with Murphy after his collaboration in Pose.
“Pose has been one of the creative highlights of my entire career. From the beginning, when Steven Canals and I sat down to hear his vision and ideas for the show, it has been a passionate project. To go from the beginning of my career in the late 90s, when it was almost impossible to put an LGBTQ character on television Pose – which will go down in history for having the greatest LGBTQ cast of all time – is a truly complete moment for me, “said Murphy.”Pose the story may end in 1996, but its impact will last forever. “
Mock added: “My life has changed forever because of Pose, a drama series focusing on trans and queer people, people living with HIV / AIDS and black and Latino people – without fear or apology. This left an indelible mark on our culture, showing that a TV show can be successful and fun while authentically casting, hiring LGBTQ talent in front of and behind the camera and moving people living on the banks to the center of the stage. Although I am heartbroken to say goodbye to our beloved characters, I know the work that my fellow writers and producers, our team and pioneering cast did on Pose will live forever as a sparkling beacon, full of heart and love, acceptance, family and community. I thank FX for being our home, 20th Television for its support, Ryan Murphy for his bold vision, our audience for their love and loyalty and the ballroom community for trusting us. “