5/2/2021
Mj Rodriguez, Billy Porter and Dominique Jackson return for the groundbreaking FX series' third and final season.
Time is the Big Bad on FX's
Pose, the indefatigable antagonist that never fails to make its leaden presence — or its villainous indifference — known to the series' trans and/or queer characters of color. The Manhattan, New York–set drama debuted in 2018 by handing an HIV-positive diagnosis to its protagonist, Blanca (Mj Rodriguez), who was hardly the first among her late-'80s ball-culture milieu to be given an impending death sentence by a doctor. But for Blanca, time was also a spur, propelling her to found her own chosen family by establishing the House of Evangelista and taking in several street kids in need of a home and some maternal support. Time was determined to take everything from Blanca, but she was just as resolved to leave behind a legacy.