With the two hour season premiere of Pose upon us this coming Sunday, the show’s co-creator Steven Canals is opening up to why the third season will be it’s last.
Speaking exclusively to Variety, here’s what he had to say:
“If you watch this season, and more specifically the finale, that was what it was always intended to be. If you go back to the first season, everything was a set up for this final chapter. Stories have a beginning, middle and an end, and this final season was the end of this three-arc narrative that we’ve been telling.
It’s us finally allowing our characters to explore what it means to have all of the things that they very clearly stated in the first season that they wanted.”
Emmy winner Billy Porter, who plays Pray Tell chimed in as well, saying:
“I have been dealing with a lot of PTSD during this COVID time. It’s very reminiscent of what it was like then,” he explained, recalling the HIV/AIDS crisis of decades prior that the show depicts.
The best news about that is that I survived, we got through it and there is another side to it — we can get to the other side. And I feel like that’s what Pose really accomplishes this season: reminding the public that it’s when we come together and when we lead with love [that] we get to the other side.”
On why the third season is Pose’s last, Canals said:
“For me as a true lover of television, one of the things that has always frustrated me is when I am tuning into a season of television and I can tell this season just feels like filler. The last thing I wanted to do to our audience was create narrative simply to create narrative, and with no real intention. I could see the ending … and it made sense to land the plane comfortably, if you will.”
While I am upset that this series is only getting three seasons, I rather the show go out on top then we all look back and say that the first three seasons were good, but after that the show went off the rails.
It’s been one of my many complaints for lots of ling-in-the-tooth TV shows, so if there’s no more story to tell with these characters, then I say go out with a bang…or should I say with a dip.
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