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'This can't happen on “Pose”': How TV's queerest show made its most emotional episode yet

This article contains spoilers for Tuesday's episode (titled "Never Knew Love Like This Before") of "Pose."

Ryan Murphy and Janet Mock knew the tune of Candy Ferocity's closing number all along.

"There was never any other choice," Murphy said of the song, "Never Knew Love Like This Before," which Candy - murdered by a john in Tuesday's emotional episode of "Pose" - performs in the fantastical sequence that caps off the hour, climbing out of her casket to the cheers of the crowd.

The same might be said of the decision to address the epidemic of violence against

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