POSE (2018)

While the specter of AIDS hangs over the whole season, Pose leaves a significant milestone in the history of the virus until the 90-minute finale. It's a lot of ground to cover, and some of the dialogue trends toward overwrought speechifying. But this was a time when ACT UP literally had to throw the ashes of their loved ones on the White House lawn to get the government to pay more attention to the AIDS crisis, so perhaps a little melodrama is called for.

What’s remarkable is how much Pose manages to accomplish simultaneously—and without sacrificing the specificity of each character’s personality, relationships or aspirations. ... For producing such an extraordinary, uncompromising second season, everyone involved in the show deserves to take a bow.

Pose applies the lessons learned from real-world history as well as its own to deliver a second season that’s just as lovingly crafted as its first, but with even grander spectacle and greater urgency—and in so doing, makes wearing your heart on your sleeve look downright fashionable.

At times, some of the dialogue affirming Blanca's choices to live and dream and hope feels like she's giving speeches pointed directly at the audience. Anywhere else, this might seem strained, but for Pose it's vital.

There are a few times in the first four episodes where the show veers perilously close to pedantic. But overall, Pose still sparks one emotion more than any other, and that’s joy.

It’s an engaging, entertaining series, and audiences will immediately feel like part of an exciting gathering--no matter why they decided to tune in.

It’s hard to hold a preference for heartwarming moments over heartbreaking ones against the show, especially when its creators are motivated by a reality that’s frequently the opposite. Pose has many excesses, and that level of consideration is just among the more positive ones.

For all of its ballroom flash and diva fierceness, Pose is a sweet, touching drama about finding your family, your purpose, yourself. The number of transgender actors in the cast may have made history, but it’s the humanity of the stories they tell that is truly revolutionary.

There's an introductory quality to the opening episodes of Pose. Murphy and his fellow creators want viewers to be immersed, but they're also mindful of those unfamiliar with the rites and rules of the ball circuit; the show anticipates many of the questions certain viewers might have. Opinions on that approach may vary, but for now it looks like a winning strategy: Pose is poignant, funny and completely accessible, whether you've been part of this community or your only point of reference is Madonna's "Vogue" video.

This series is a celebration of humanity. I admire all the casts and their portrayals. And MJ as Blanca deserved the best actress award for this show. I will always share to people how much I love Pose.

so empowering! so sad to see this series end. thank you to all the fierce trans actors who took it to another level

amazing show, it was so moving. loved the history and character, beautiful show

Touching some serious subjects, teaching us history and who were the real game-changers, all of that whilst being funny and joyful no matter what. The photography is very good, the acting's stellar. Each character has been carefully thought through and curated and it shows.

the most exciting, interesting, emotional and aesthetic pleasing tv show i've watched in my entire life

(Español / English) Abstract Español Ejemplar crónica de una época y de una lucha Lejos de las estridencias y arbitrariedades de otras ficciones suyas, un Ryan Murphy realista y muy bien asesorado nos brinda en Pose una crónica social y cultural de la movida trans y drag afrodescendiente y latina en la Nueva York de mediados de los 80s, con sus “Casas” y la “Ball Culture”, espacios de contención, construcción y resistencia de la cultura trans en plena era Reagan y con el SIDA como ominoso telón de fondo. Toda una pintura de época, con personajes interesantes y muy bien delineados, muchos entrañables, varios diálogos extraordinarios y todo el glamour, la emoción y el humor feroz de sus Balls. English Abstract Exemplary painting of an era and a struggle. Far from the stridencies and arbitrariness of his other fictions, a realistic and well-advised Ryan Murphy offers us in Pose a social and cultural chronicle of the Afro-descendant and Latino trans and drag movement in New York in the mid-80s, with his “ Houses ”and“ Ball Culture”, spaces of containment, construction and resistance of the trans culture in the middle of the Reagan era and with AIDS as an ominous backdrop. A whole period painting, with interesting and very well delineated characters, many endearing ones, several extraordinary dialogues and all the glamor, emotion and fierce humor of his Balls. Reseña Español Temporada 1 (próximamente agregaré la T2) Pose retrata la movida trans y drag afrodescendiente y latina en Nueva York a mediados de los años 80s, en plena era Reagan y de la expansión del SIDA. Por un lado ingresamos al mundo de las “Casas, donde una mujer trans alberga a otras chicas trans y chicos gays o no, erigiéndose en su “madre” o protectora y conformando verdaderas familias sustitutas para personas en general expulsadas de sus familais biológicas por sus elecciones de género y sexuales y en serios apuros económicos. Piénsese en los numerosos factores de marginación y discriminación (incluso dentro de la propia comunidad gay) con que cargan estas personas y mucho más en esa época. Por otro lado, Ryan Murphy nos introduce a través de esta serie en la cultura del Ball (Ball Culture): en algunos clubes nocturnos, las Casas competían en desfiles temáticos para los cuales sus integrantes se preparaban y producían, con un jurado que atribuirá trofeos. El Ball constituía un espacio tanto de identificación y reafirmación social como de resistencia, así como también de satirización de ciertos estándares culturales de la época. Pose es una historia coral con una notable galería de personajes, destacándose Elektra Abundance (la imponente Dominique Jackson) una “madre” ciertamente despótica pero con buen pasar económico, reina de la Casa Abundance, Blanca (MJ Rodríguez), que abandona a Elektra para fundar su propia Casa Evangelista junto con la bella Angel (Indya Moore) y Pray Tell (Billy Porter), modista y mordaz maestro de ceremonias de los Balls; a través de él y su pareja la serie nos introduce en la dolorosa y terminal realidad del SIDA en esa época. Season 1 (I'll add S2 soon) Pose portrays the Afro-descendant and Latino trans and drag movement in New York in the mid-1980s, in the middle of the Reagan era and the spread of AIDS. On the one hand, we enter the world of "Houses”, where a trans woman shelters other trans girls and boys, gay or not, becoming their" mother" or protector and forming true substitute families for people generally expelled from their biological families for their gender and sexual choices and in serious financial distress. Think of the many factors of marginalization and discrimination (even within the gay community itself) that these people carry and much more at that time. On the other hand, Ryan Murphy introduces us through this series in the culture of Ball (Ball Culture): in some nightclubs, the Houses competed in thematic parades for which their members prepared and produced, with a jury that will award trophies . The Ball constituted a space both for identification and social reaffirmation as well as for resistance, as well as for the satirization of certain cultural standards of the time. Pose is a choral story with a remarkable gallery of characters, standing out Elektra Abundance (the imposing Dominique Jackson) a "mother" certainly despotic but with a good economic time, queen of the Abundance House, Blanca (MJ Rodríguez), who leaves Elektra to founding his own Evangelist House with the beautiful Angel (Indya Moore) and Pray Tell (Billy Porter), dressmaker and scathing ringmaster of the Balls; Through him and his partner, the series introduces us to the painful and terminal reality of AIDS at that time

Simplesmente lindo, todos deveriam olhar e aprender a amar os outros pelas pessoas que são.

this is simply amazing! thats HERstory of the black LGBT community. so excited for the second season!

2020 #307: POSE SEASON 1 I didn't know what to expect watching this but I was completely blown away. This it s without a doubt Ryan Murphy's best and most fully realized show. It tells the story **** of friends in the Ballroom community and all the trials and tribulations they go through. It's moving with amazing performances and an informative and engaging story. It's really one of the best shows for anyone to watch and shows the struggle **** of people most would rather forget until now. 9/10