Spoiler alert: Do not read this column if you have not seen the May 30 “Something Old, Something New” episode of FX’s “Pose.” “Pose,” the FX series wrapping its three-…
; the lip-sync to Stephanie Mills’ “Never Knew Love Like This Before” was a tour de force from Angelica Ross, a last look at the character Candy after she’d been murdered and a chance to make clear how loved and admired the character had been. But few actors have seemed quite so integral to the fantastical element of “Pose” as Jackson. I have always been a partisan of Jackson’s work, pitched to the rafters with a luscious, witty self-indulgence to each line reading.
Angel’s wedding represents the overcoming of various barriers, both within herself and her partner and within society. And, soon enough, the mood is spoiled, as a gruff bridal-store owner shutting down the party — he refuses to turn designers’ art, he says, into “a freak show.” There’s real sorrow allowed in, as Elektra begs, briefly, for him to at least take her money even if he can’t accept her womanhood.
It’s in moments like Elektra lowering herself to seek understanding where she must know none will be found, before going in on a shopkeeper she will make herself believe is beneath her notice. Or Rodriguez’s Blanca faltering in her delivery of “Home,” and relying on Porter’s Pray Tell to get her through in what becomes a display of extravagant yet appropriate emotionality. It’s the initial feeling of bad taste, of too-muchness, of Candy rising from her casket to perform.
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