I HATE that this is the final season of Pose! It is only season three! Maybe Billy Porter got too expensive? I love this show. There are two episodes tonight. I just started watching. It is great and horrific all at the same time. I’m going to be up all all night. I already keep backing it up to rewatch. It’s hard to revisit the AIDS crisis and how long it took the government to get some sort of treatment. It is very sad and real. Yet, there are funny moments and FIERCE competitions. I am back to my happy place after yesterday took a dark turn on here. Sandra Bernhard, and Patti Lupone, a couple more big names…but every actor on this show is spectacular. And they are up to the OJ Simpson slow chase.
Strike A Pose!
Pose is the best show on TV. I hate we don’t have much time. But, gone too soon is sort of fitting for this series . I was so dumb about the whole AIDS crisis when it started. I was terrified but very young and had weird thoughts I am ashamed of now. The show can break your heart. And lift you up all in one episode.
Billy Porter beat out Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul), Kit Harington (Game of Thrones), Jason Bateman (Ozark), Milo Ventimiglia (This Is Us), and Sterling K. Brown (This Is Us) to be the first openly gay black man to win the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. All the man needs is an Oscar for the EGOT title. Sadly, we all know he will die this season. 🙁 I mean I don’t KNOW he will. But I know Ryan Murphy so I am preparing myself. If you have never watched Pose, check it out on FX on Demand. Start from the beginning and savor every moment.
And do me a favor if for whatever reason you hate this show, please don’t leave a comment. Just let me be happy for tonight. Thanks.
I need to catch up on Pose, so thanks for the reminder to make that one of my next weekend binges.
One recent trend for scripted TV is cutting down episodes, both in episodes per season and in the number of seasons. I guess they’re doing that with Pose, too.
I already know it is ending. I love having two episodes at once. I’d stay up all night if they put them all up. You should call and read me a bedtime story. LOL 😉
I’m obsessed with this show!
TT, did you hear about Janet Mock’s meltdown at the premiere? Totally worried about her. I know everyone was embarrassed when she admitted to cheating on the cast member she’s dating and he was there!! https://pagesix.com/2021/04/30/janet-mock-reveals-infidelity-in-pose-premiere-speech/
No I had not. And if you had read the commenting rules HERE you would know that links are not allowed. Please read them. But I am putting this comment through anyway, because, JUICY!
Im sorry, I won’t post links again. It was just soooooooo juicy I couldn’t help myself. It’s like something out of a tv show
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Oh and your link was Juicy! I can be a cunt sometimes. But your link was awesome!
Nope. Not gonna let you attack my emotions with thoughts of Pray Tell dying. Between him and Blanca…I am spent. Not to mention it’s just a beautiful show in general!
I lived through the eighties and I expect some tough deaths ahead.
I was a moron then and probably still am. I have no idea how so many of my gay friends have forgiven me. I feel like I am an ally now but only my friends can tell me that. It’s a heartbreaking show now. I was a different show earlier. If you have not watched you need to try to start from the first season and catch up with us. We all need to cry at once. We should have a group cry on the season finale. I will definitely need your support.
I’ve been watching since season one. This show tugs at my heart strings ever time. The sense of lose is overwhelming. I cry like I know them all.
Have you read Jenifer Lewis’s (Black-ish) memoirs? She touched on this topic too. She was spiraling like Pray Tell because her friends kept dying from HIV/AIDS. It’s also hilariously relatable because…it’s Jenifer Lewis
I’ve been actively avoiding sad shows. I’ve given up on Grey’s Anatomy all together. But I am so invested in this show, that I just watch and cry through most of it. I JUST KNOW they are going to kill Praytell at the end. I have no source obviously. But I just see it coming and I may take to the bed for a week.
I follow the actor who played Cyrus’ husband on Scandal because I have never gotten over that character dying. I could NOT STOP CRYING. But like Mary says below, you will laugh and dance and cry all in one episode. SOOOOO GOOD.
We will grieve together. I need to make sure my tissues are stocked up for Sundays. Luckily I do not have to go into the office so no one will see my raccoon eyes
I speed through a lot of Grey’s. Not for the sadness, necessarily, but for the dullness.
For those of you who do not watch the show. I wish you would start from the beginning if you can. Especially if you don’t know people in the LGBT community. It’s a very good show. And MAYBE you can at least soften your opinion.You will learn about all different kinds of love. Love is love. Iove a lot of you, and some of you are not happy with me right now as I protect my sanity. And I am okay with that.
Such a wonderful show…I can’t wait to watch later…I’ve also submerged myself in Paris is Burning, How do I look and Strike A Pose etc…love it all dahling 💃😍
100!! While I have always been accepting of the trans community, there was a lot of stuff that I had tunnel vision on, in particular, the need for the medical community to learn how to provide proper care specific to the trans community. It softened me all the way up and that is thanks to Pose. This show highlights why representation matters. Why it’s necessary to have the people whose stories are being told actually be the ones who tell it!
I LOVE this show and was devastated to see that it was ending. I found it through Netflix and watched it all in a weekend. I laugh, cry, sing and dance all in one episode. I’m in my 50’s, so this seriously amused my husband. He kept asking me what I was watching, lol. I lived through the AIDS crisis but I now know there were so many things I did not know. I remember going to see the AIDS quilt, or piece of it, when it came to my town and it was such a powerful experience.
I love Pose!!!! I need to catch up as I didn’t see the last episode of Season 2. A friend of mine’s husband wishes they would do a series on men who perform in drag but are straight. He says when you tell someone your a drag queen they just assume you are gay and he isn’t, he just loves the pagentry and friendships he has in that community.
He’s totally gay.
Greatest show on TV! Absolutely love it! Thanks for the reminder TT!!!
I loved the first season!
There was always a lot of drama around this show. Like I remember reading press for the first season, and it was weird about how they spent all the money on music licensing? Complaining, representation, accuracy, nitpicking details and so on. It was never going to make everyone happy.
I’m not surprised to even more complaining and drama. I totally get why Ryan Murphy would pack it in and move on to something more commercial. I think that’s why season two moved so fast in time.
I loved the two part season premiere. I also will need to download Pose Season 3 soundtrack because the playlist so far is 🔥🔥🔥. Excited for the rest of the season and I hope they didn’t write Damon (Ryan Jamal Swain) out of the rest of this season…
Hello,
My husband and I miss Damon’s character so much. The actor asked for some time off after his sister was murdered in August if last year. I wonder if that was during filming. But I have my fingers crossed that he will come back as the season closes out.
We both the cried for friends we lost to AIDS in the 90s. I have never forgotten and I am still mad over how they were treated by family, friends, and church members.
Praytell’s exasperation with going to so many funerals is heartbreaking. I believe he said last night it was his 1,000th funeral. I didn’t delete my episodes. I need to watch them again.
TT, thank you sooo much for turning me on to this show! I’d heard of it, but really didn’t know anything about it. I started Season 1, episode 1 on Sunday night and have not stopped. I’m hooked. A show that’s so entertaining and funny, but tragic and so sad all at once. I’m learning a lot. I’m 66 and remember the AIDS era vividly. Now I realize just how little I really knew. A genius show, and I’m telling all my fam and friends about it.
I’ve watched this from the beginning and yes, it’s hard to get up all in my feelings and let my mind go back to the late 80’s and 90’s but I really love this show. I’m not looking forward to the inevitable end as there really is only one way that it can end and I’m sure those memories are going to really hurt.
So glad that I’m not watching alone.
I can’t believe they’re in 1994 already. I haven’t watched the first 2 eps. yet. That’ll be for this weekend.
Tamara I am a long time reader and lurker. Thank you for making this a space to get support for when this series ends. I am an ally. I love this show. I love how they have woven true events in LQBTQ+ history into the story lines. I laugh, cry and feel uplifted by every episode. I remembered when I watched season 1 before friends here in the UK the were annoyed at me for going on and on about this show. I’m sad 3 seasons is all we get.