Groundbreaking Series ‘Pose’ to End After Season 3
FX’s groundbreaking Emmy and Peabody Award-winning drama Pose will officially come to an end after its much anticipated third season, which will premiere May 2.
Co-created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Steven Canals, the news broke on Friday during an interview with Good Morning America.
“It was a very difficult decision for us to make, but this has been an incredible journey, and we’ve told the story we wanted to tell the way that we wanted to tell it,” Canals said. “I, along with my incredible collaborators, never intended on changing the television landscape, I simply wanted to tell an honest story about family, resilience, and love.”
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Since debuting in 2018, Pose has left an indelible mark on the TV landscape. The drama made TV history by featuring a record number of trans characters portrayed by trans actors, with a cast that includes Billy Porter, who became the first openly gay man to win the lead actor Emmy, and Janet Mock ranking as the first trans woman of color hired as a writer on a TV series, as well as the first transgender woman of color to write and direct a TV episode.
Pose also boasts the largest recurring cast of LGBTQ actors ever for a scripted series. Porter and Mock star alongside Mj Rodriguez, Dominique Jackson, Indya Moore, Hailie Sahar, Dyllón Burnside, Angel Bismark Curiel, Sandra Bernhard, and Jason A. Rodriguez.
The drama puts the spotlight on New York’s underground ball culture, a movement that first gained notice in the 1980s and had a huge impact on the masses when it came to dancing, fashion, and music. It put an authentic lens on trans people of color and AIDS epidemic of the era.
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Season three is said to set place in 1994 where ballroom feels like a distant memory for Rodriguez’s character, Blanca. She struggles to balance being a mother with being a present partner to her new love, and her latest role as a nurse’s aide. Meanwhile, as AIDS becomes the leading cause of death for Americans ages 25 to 44, Pray Tell (Porter) contends with unexpected health burdens. Elsewhere, the emergence of a vicious new upstart house forces the House of Evangelista members to contend with their legacy.
“Pose has been one of the creative highlights of my entire career,” Murphy said. “From the very beginning when Steven Canals and I sat down to hear his vision and ideas for the show, it has been a passion project. To go from the beginning of my career in the late 90s when it was nearly impossible to get an LGBTQ character on television to Pose, which will go down in history for having the largest LGBTQ cast of all time, is a truly full circle moment for me.”
Mock said in a statement, “My life has been forever changed because of Pose, a drama series that centered around trans and queer people, people living with HIV/AIDS, and Black and Latinx people — without trepidation or apology. It’s left an indelible mark on our culture, modeling that a TV show can be successful and entertaining while also casting authentically, hiring LGBTQ talent in front of and behind the camera, and moving people living on the margins to centerstage. Though I am heartbroken to say goodbye to our beloved characters, I know the work my fellow writers and producers, our crew, and trailblazing cast did on Pose will live forever as a glittering, heart-filled, bright beacon of love, acceptance, family and community. I am grateful to FX for being our home, 20th Television for the support, to Ryan Murphy for your bold vision, to our audience for your love and loyalty, and to the ballroom community for trusting us.”
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The final season of Pose will air May 2 at 10 p.m. ET/PT with its first two episodes of its seven-episode run. The series will say its final goodbye June 6.
Image courtesy of the Pose Facebook page.
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