Ryan Murphy Strikes A ‘Pose’ With ’80s-Set FX Musical Show
By Ben Pearson/Dec. 28, 2017 3:30 pm EST
Get more details about the new Pose FX series below.
I’ve always found Murphy’s style to be a bit much much for my personal tastes, but I know there are many who appreciate his over-the-top, go-for-broke aesthetic, and this show sounds like it’ll be yet another opportunity for him to bathe viewers in total excess for an hour every week. Here’s the synopsis of the series (via ComingSoon):
Yep, you read that correctly: Ryan Murphy is making a show that is, at least in part, about “ball culture.” I honestly was not aware that attending balls was even a thing people could do beyond the 1700s, so I’m wildly out of the loop on this. (Is there a thriving ball culture now? Have all of you been attending lavish costume parties and just not inviting me?)
Set in the 1980s, Pose looks at the juxtaposition of several segments of life and society in New York: the rise of the luxury Trump-era universe, the downtown social and literary scene, and the ball culture world.
American Horror Story veterans Evan Peters (X-Men: Apocalypse) and Kate Mara (House of Cards) are playing Stan and Patty, a couple from New Jersey who gets pulled into the allure of 1980s New York City, while James Van Der Beek (Dawson’s Creek) plays Stan’s kingpin boss. Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black) was originally hired to star in the series as a dance teacher, but her role has been “rewritten to be a 50-year-old African-American woman,” and she was replaced by Charlayne Woodard (Law & Order: SVU).
Most of the headlines will rightly be about Murphy’s history-making assembly of transgender actors in this cast, including MJ Rodriguez, Dominique Jackson, Indya Moore, Hailie Sahar, and Angelica Ross. Here’s Murphy’s statement from a press release:
