Mother of The Year
- Episode aired Jul 22, 2018
- TV-MA
- 57m
The ultimate showdown takes place at the Princess Ball, when the House of Evangelista battle against the House of Ferocity and Mother of the Year is decided.The ultimate showdown takes place at the Princess Ball, when the House of Evangelista battle against the House of Ferocity and Mother of the Year is decided.The ultimate showdown takes place at the Princess Ball, when the House of Evangelista battle against the House of Ferocity and Mother of the Year is decided.
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- Blanca Rodriguez
- (as MJ Rodriguez)
- Ricky
- (as Dyllón Burnside)
- Lil Papi
- (as Angel Bismark Curiel)
- Veronica
- (as Bianca Castro)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe judge who nearly fights Candy Ferocity is Sol Pendavis (playing himself) who is the House Father to the House of Pendavis, of whom Kiki Pendavis is a nominee for Mother of the Year. The judge in red is Freddie Pendavis. Sol and Freddie both appeared in the documentary Paris Is Burning (1990) and serve as consultants on the show.
- Quotes
Lulu Abundance: What are you doing here? Is there a tired Old Bitches on Geritol category tonight?
Elektra Abundance: I'm here to walk with my house.
Candy Abundance: Not much of a house with only one bitch in it.
Lulu Abundance: More like a studio apartment.
Elektra Abundance: Didn't you hear the news? I'm walking with the House of Evangelista, to help them win a trophy or ten, but mostly to destroy you. Aphrodite, I've got no beef with you. You may go or stay if you don't mind the sight of blood.
Aphrodite: I've got nowhere to be.
Elektra Abundance: Good, then you can hear the disappointment in my voice as I count off the ways in which I have clearly failed as a mother. Look at the fruits of my labor: a foolhardy chunk who makes her living on the pole and a brainless wonder who thinks the way to get curves is to stick Charmin in her drawers or to inject cement into her derriere. House of Ferocity? You two are about as fierce as my morning corn flakes. You may have left my home but you can't leave me. I'm in your mind, that voice saying, "You're not good enough, little girl. You're not smart enough or tough enough or glamorous enough to make it in this world." And that little voice is going to eat away at you like termites until your whole pathetic house come crashing down. You think you're on the road to being legends but you couldn't make it from here to the door without me pointing the way. You're nothing but bags of rancid, rotting meat. Well, take a long last look at this filet mignon. I doubt we'll be conversing ever again unless I take a sudden interest in dying of boredom.
Ryan Murphy's latest show is about the 80's, largely black, New York, Gay and Trans' scene, which is beset by discrimination, within discrimination, within discrimination and with an awful spectre of AIDS looming over it. The shows primary focus is Blanca (MJ Rodriquez) who starts her own house to compete at the Balls, a fashion/style/dance hybrid-event.
Although I was joking with my "White Hetero" line earlier, it's fair to say that I do live a long way from the lifestyles shown in "Pose", it is, of course, not hard to connect with the characters though - as though the sources of and reasons for might be different, feelings of disconnection, betrayal, fear and the desire to be loved and to be seen for who you are, are universal. I'm still not sure I believe that Balls were a real thing though, or perhaps not to that scale. The budget for oversize trophies alone must have been more than the bar took.
I'm not sure that I buy the criticism I see on here that performances in the show were bad. A couple are certainly "mannered". Dominique Jackson certainly that as Elektra Abundance, initially Blanca's house mother, turned rival, but that performance, with her scything putdowns is fun to watch. Realistic, no... but fun. Unarguable though is that Billy Porter is excellent in this, given the most heavy lifting to do he carries it off magnificently. I'm really glad that his casting in Murphy's productions has elevated his TV career to a similar level to his as his theatrical one.
If I have any negative feelings about this first season of "Pose" it's that I watched it all with a sense of dread gnawing inside me, that at some point, one of these characters is going to meet a horrible fate, maybe that's what's coming in the second series. A touching and inspirational season, I hope in the UK we don't have to wait as long for the second as we have for the first.
- southdavid
- May 29, 2019
Details
- Runtime57 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 16:9 HD