MAY 9 - 15, 2021 staradvertiser.com ELEKTRA’S COMPLEX After two full seasons exploring New York City’s underground ballroom culture, the LGBTQ-focused drama Pose is back and bound to send audiences on a wild ride. Starring MJ Rodriguez, Dominique Jackson and Billy Porter in leading roles, the show has featured more trans actors playing trans characters than any other series in television history. Premiering Sunday, May 9, on FX. ST JULY 1 SECOND SEASON Mele A‘e VIRTUAL AUDITION THE NEXT PERFORMANCE COULD BE YOURS. DEADLINE IS SUBMIT YOUR VIRTUAL AUDITION NOW! This is your chance to break through. Mele ARe is a new program from R= R R= olelo.org ! olelo.org/auditions ON THE COVER | POSE Working it The final season of ‘Pose’ 2017) shifts her focus from ballroom to moth- finished with the second season). In Season erhood and a relationship with Christopher 2’s “Butterfly/Cocoon,” Elektra, who had been continues on FX (new actor Blaine Alden Krauss). The AIDS secretly working as a BDSM mistress, had to crisis has reached devastating heights by this dispose of a client’s body after he accidentally By Rachel Jones point and has become the leading cause of overdosed. In no way was the death Elektra’s TV Media death among young people. fault, but she felt it best to dispose of the Facing the epidemic head-on, Blanca starts body herself. trike a “Pose,” the Emmy-winning drama working as a nursing aide, while Pray Tell (Billy With the help of Candy (Angelica Ross, is back with a new episode of its third Porter, “Like a Boss,” 2020), who was diag- “Claws,” 2017) and Ms. Orlando (Cecilia Gentili, Sseason, and after two other seasons ex- nosed with HIV in Season 1 along with Blanca, “The Trans Literacy Project,” 2016), Elektra ploring New York City’s underground ballroom starts experiencing sudden health problems. jams the body into a suitcase and brings him culture, the LGBTQ-focused drama is bound to Members of House of Evangelista, an under- up into her apartment. They don’t wrap the send audiences on a wild ride. Following the an- ground ballroom group, must also contend with body in burlap or tarp — no, they put him in a nouncement of a shortened, seven-episode fi- a new house in town, House of Khan. cocoon filled with lye; a pleather cocoon, to be nal season, co-creators Ryan Murphy (“Glee”) Aptly named “The Trunk,” the upcoming exact. and Steven Canals (“Dead of Summer,” episode follows Elektra (Dominique As you can imagine, this scene isn’t your 2016) are prepared to tell the story Jackson, “Chick Fight,” 2020) and ordinary get-rid-of-the-body scene. It’s flashy, they most want to tell. Episode 3 airs Blanca as they scramble to dis- jazzy and chock-full of happiness. This surpris- Sunday, May 9, on FX. pose of a trunk in Elektra’s closet. ing attitude stands in stark contrast to the real- For those who haven’t Circumstances make the matter ity of Elektra’s social situation, one shared by yet tuned in to Season urgent, as Elektra is unjustly ar- many of the characters in “Pose.” As members 3, there are some major rested and she does not want of the underground house scene, the LGBTQ changes. The time frame jumps law enforcement to find it. community and the Black and Latinx commu- from 1991 to 1994 as Blanca (MJ So what’s in the trunk, Elektra? nities, they are not just part of a subcultural Rodriguez, “Saturday Church,” Perhaps revisiting one of the phenomenon, they also face levels of discrimi- series’ most shocking deaths gives nation that a white cis-community struggles to A scene from “Pose” us a hint (spoiler alert for anyone not understand. SUBSCRIBER HELP FEED HAWAI‘I DONATION PROGRAM We live here. We give here. 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Fred Hechinger (“News of TV+ (“Four Weddings and a Funeral”), Sian Brooke the World,” 2020), Wyatt Russell (“Overlord,” (“Sherlock”), Darren Boyd (“Luther”) and Robyn “Trying” Season 2 2018), Brian Tyree Henry (“Spiderman: Into Cara (“Life”). Season 2 of “Trying” (which has the Spider-Verse,” 2018), Jeanine Serralles Jump right back into the adoption process already been renewed for a third season) will be (“Inside Llewyn Davis,” 2013), Mariah Bozeman with a new season of Apple’s British comedy released under the form of eight weekly install- (“Chicago Med”), Liza Colón-Zayas (“David series “Trying,” premiering globally on Friday, ments on Apple TV+. Makes Man,” 2019), Anna Cameron (“Birthday May 14. Featuring Esther Smith (“Cuckoo”) Girl,” 2019), Donat Balaj (“The Pirates of and Rafe Spall (“The Big Short,” 2015), the WHAT’S NEW ON NETFLIX Somalia,” 2017), Rand Guerrero (“Pose”), series follows Nikki (Smith) and Jason (Spall) Amanda Rabinowitz (“You”) and Ben Davis (“30 “The Woman in the Window” (2021) as the couple awkwardly navigates through Rock”) round out the cast. the adoption process following their request’s Lock your door, close your windows and settle approval by an adoption panel. This initial suc- in for a tense psychological thriller courtesy of cess isn’t long-lasting, however, as children Netflix’s “The Woman in the Window,” set for are seemingly being picked up by countless release on Friday, May 14. The film features other couples, leaving the duo feeling left Amy Adams (“Arrival,” 2016) as Anna Fox, an behind. This all changes when Nikki, attending agoraphobic child psychologist who keeps an an adoption event, feels an instant connec- eye out on the seemingly perfect family that tion with a little girl named Princess, which recently moved across from her home. Things unfortunately only seems to add more hurdles. take a turn for the worse, however, when she Co-star Imelda Staunton (“Harry Potter and inadvertently witnesses a gruesome act the Order of the Phoenix,” 2007) returns as the through her window. Based on American author Amy Adams stars in “The Woman in the Window” couple’s eccentric social worker, Penny, among A.J. Finn’s 2018 book of the same name, “The ONLINE BOOKSTORE Visit our Online Bookstore for Powered by: discounts on your favorite books. Mutual staradvertiser.com/bookstore Publishing, LLC 3 STAR CHANNELS MAy 9 - 15, 2021 CROSSWORD Across 48. Armed conflicts 1. “One more thing ...” 49. Prefix with hertz 5. Amazon Prime Video series “Tales from the ___” Down 9. 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