True Romance: Janet Mock on the Final Season of ‘Pose’

As Mock says goodbye to the groundbreaking drama that changed her life, she is planning to make more television that shows people that they are not alone.

A year and a half ago, Janet Mock, a writer, director and executive producer on the FX drama “Pose,” began to plan a wedding. A big wedding. In a big ballroom. With music and flowers and a bride so heart-shatteringly beautiful that the groom would cry as soon as he glimpsed her at the top of the aisle. She pitched it to Ryan Murphy, a creator of “Pose.” His response: “Another TV wedding?” On most shows, weddings are a cliché, a ratings grab, a move a season makes when it has run through more elegant ones. But Mock knew that a “Pose” wedding could mean something more. “It was my love letter to ‘Pose,’” Mock said, “and to the women who watch this show, who are craving that sort of deep, deep partnership with someone who fully shows up for them and celebrates them and loves them in public.” Her argument persuaded Murphy, and that wedding takes place during the third and final season of “Pose,” which premieres on Sunday. (The wedding is so big that it’s a two-parter.)