Ladies With An Attitude Make For A Striking 'Pose' Finale
The first season wrapped up with a come-from-behind victory that surprised no one — but the appeal of the series isn't about who wins. The greatest thing about Pose is that it exists at all.
This post discusses the events of Sunday night's POSE season finale.
It wasn't layered. It wasn't nuanced. It was didactic in some places, and mawkish in others, often reaching for sentiment only to achieve sentimentality instead. Characters didn't so much converse as stand and deliver long declamatory paragraphs at each other, in precisely the way real people don't — you could hear the writing, always. The cast approached the material with great fervor, if not, in all cases, great finesse.
But so what. Because after all that, we'd get a scene at the ball. And , the series which ended its first
