We’ve reached the halfway point in the first season of FX’s groundbreaking “Pose,” and as the stakes in the underground queer ballrooms of 1980s New York ratchet up, so do personal victories and tragedies for the characters in the Ryan Murphy drama.
Broadway and recording veteran Billy Porter had a shining moment on Sunday as Pray Tell, the stunt queen emcee who hosts the weekly balls where gay orphans, trans woman and a family of LGBTQ people gather for organized self-flattery and some fierce dress up.
Pray Tell is never short on comebacks or crowd-pleasing disses for the brave children who walk various categories at the balls, in search of validation — but he’s never been as dimensional as he was in Sunday’s installment “The Fever,” written by trans activist Janet Mock.