Season 1 – Pose

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Tifaniyya A @RT76649933 3 days ago Empowering omg, this series is just so wonderful and very realistic for a lot of queers out there and in the 70s, 80s and 90s too. The arts, the culture, the storyline is amazing. A great piece of work! This rating goes to all 3 seasons, love everyone here! See more Devin F. @Miskiboy04 Jun 4, 2026 Ive been watching this show since 2018 when I was 14. I was first coming out as bisexual. This show introduced me to what aids were and what ball room was *never heard of both until the show* and ot has helped me learned and understand alot of this. I have genuinely seen this show 71 times and it still makes me cry and and makes me learn something new we w everytime I watch it. Or sometimes ill learn the same thing but for a different perspective as a reminder ti always keep an open mind. See more Sam P @laniakea Apr 14, 2026 Pose attempts to tell the story of New York's 1980s ballroom culture but undermines itself at every turn. The writers frequently put contemporary queer vernacular into the mouths of characters who would never have spoken that way, jarring badly for anyone familiar with the era. Sloppy continuity errors and implausibly successful story arcs feel more like modern wish fulfilment than authentic period drama. Ryan Murphy's sentimentality is cranked to insufferable levels and the acting ranges from competent to cringe-worthy. There is something compulsively watchable about it in a trashy soap opera kind of way, and Billy Porter brings genuine theatrical presence. But ultimately Pose is a manipulative melodrama that sacrifices authenticity for sentiment. The insultingly tidy finale reduces a genuinely tragic chapter of queer history to a feel-good fantasy, culminating in Blanca dispensing fortune cookie wisdom outside a ball. Each season is worse than the last. See more Ricardo R @RT27110402 May 1, 2025 gage so so so harded my my See more Z Y @RT48734483 Feb 25, 2024 The story is nicely constructed, but I struggled to grasp the charm of that specific culture. Perhaps it's just too different from my own background. See more Michael L @thatMichael5 Nov 28, 2023 A thoughtful and well considered representation of lives lived on the fringes. See more Read all reviews

Pose — Season 1

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