Pose to End After Third Season
Final go-around will have seven episodes
BY MATT TRACY
The groundbreaking FX
show “Pose” will come
to an end after the upcoming
third season,
show co-creator Steven Canals announced
on March 5.
“It was a very diffi cult decision
for us to make, but this has been
an incredible journey, and we
have told the story that we wanted
to tell the way that we wanted
to tell it,” Canals said in a videorecorded
statement. “Although we
know you will be sad to see the
show go, this season will be fi lled
with all of the love and laughter
and tears that you have come
to expect from the Evangelista
family. I, along with our incredible
collaborators, never intended
on changing the television landscape.
I simply wanted to tell an
honest story about family, resilience,
Indya Moore, who stars as Angel in “Pose,” at the 2019 Golden Globes.
and love. We love you and
hope you will join us in celebrating
this fi nal season.
The fi nal season of the acclaimed
show is slated to debut with a twoepisode
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premiere on May 2 at 10
p.m. on FX. While the fi rst season
had eight episodes and the second
season ran 10 episodes, the fi nal
go-around will have just seven
TELEVISION
episodes. The fi rst two seasons are
also on Netfl ix.
The show, which is also led by
co-creator Ryan Murphy, follows
New York City’s queer ballroom
scene from the 1980s into the
1990s and navigates the HIV/
AIDS crisis, sex work, relationships,
the competitive ballroom
landscape, and the everyday lives
of folks in diverse chosen families
consisting of transgender and gay
individuals of color living under
one roof.
“‘Write the TV show you want to
watch!’ That was what I was told
in 2014 while completing my MFA
in screenwriting,” Canals added.
“At the time we weren’t seeing
very many Black and Latinx
characters — that happened to
also be LGBTQ — populating
screens. And so I wrote the fi rst
draft of a pilot the ‘younger me’
deserved.”
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