POSE (Seasons 1–3)

POSE (2018–2021) is an FX drama series you can watch online on iFILM. Created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Steven Canals, it drops you into late-1980s New York and the roaring underground of ball culture.

Down in basement halls, rival "houses" compete for trophies — chosen families that trans women and queer kids build after their own relatives throw them out. Blanca breaks away from the legendary Elektra to start the House of Evangelista, taking in the runaways nobody else will. They walk, they vogue, they battle under the razor-tongued commentary of emcee Pray Tell. Outside those walls wait Reagan's America, Trump's gilded towers, and the AIDS epidemic, which spares no one. Mj Rodriguez, Dominique Jackson and Billy Porter give the ballroom a real pulse.

It's the first scripted series to cast trans actresses in its lead roles, with people from the community writing and directing behind the camera. Billy Porter took home an Emmy for his work as Pray Tell. Across three seasons the show swings between runway euphoria and quiet grief, and rarely fumbles either. Stream every season of POSE online on iFILM.