channelling of the iceberg that sunk the Titanic were basically the two best moments of the season, and he seems poised to become only the third male cast member (after Bill Hader and Kenan Thompson) to get an Emmy nomination come next month.
Alex Newell
Someone who will likely be joining Yang among this year s Emmy nominees is Alex Newell for their showstopping work on the wonderful musical comedy series
Zoey s Extraordinary Playlist. On the series, Newell plays Mo, the titular Zoey s genderfluid neighbour. Like Mo, Newell who initially broke out from their work on
Glee goes by they/them pronouns, defining themselves as gender noncomforming. Newell joins a cohort of young performers who are producing brilliant work that breaks free from the gender binary expectations of the entertainment industry. An Emmy nomination for Newell would not only be well deserved but could go a long way toward making awards shows reconsider the increasingly problematic divide between actresse
In a little over three years, Ryan Murphy’s
Paris Is Burning-inspired series
POSE has changed the landscape of television. Embarking on a six-month search to find and cast real trans women and LGBTQ+ actors of colour, the show was revolutionary before a single episode had even aired. The original script was reportedly rejected by 166 Hollywood studios that didn’t think there would be an audience for it. They couldn’t have been more wrong.
POSE became a star-making machine that broke the mould, with myriad awards and many firsts along the way, notably having the largest cast of trans actors ever for a scripted series and, with Janet Mock, the first trans woman of colour to direct an episode of television.
"To have not one but three characters living with HIV, and to have them all just do well and never seen them struggle with their health, it didn't completely feel real," Pose co-creator Steven Canals said
How Pose Made Great Art Out of Excess With Wedding Episodes
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May 30, 2021
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Spoiler alert: Do not read this column if you have not seen the May 30 “Something Old, Something New” episode of FX’s “Pose.”
“Pose,” the FX series wrapping its three-season run in June, is a show that’s always been comfortable using exaggeration as a sort of wishful metaphor. Consider the show’s first episode, in which Dominique Jackson’s character leads a museum heist in order to ransack historical finery to wear at a ball. The characters, along with their show, use wit and ambition to procure clothes worn by royals, and redistribute them to Black drag artists and trans women. By bending reality, the show reclaimed the visual language of wealth and power. To mention that such a heist seemed unrealistic at best isn’t just not in the spirit of “Pose.” It is irrelevant to what the show was doing.
Pose (FX) The first trailer for the third and final season of FX’s groundbreaking series “Pose” has arrived, serving the expected mix of drama, tears, laughter and love.
The two minute sneak peek begins with Emmy winner
Billy Porter reflecting on ballroom culture, its evolution and what it has meant personally.
âYour life matters,â
Mj Rodriguezâs Blanca tells him, reiterating a recurring theme of the series. She now works at a hospital.
The Pose crew talks about the legacy they want to pass down to future generations. âWe are just gonna be ourselves and thatâs it,â says