Pose
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Its hard, sometimes, to pinpoint exactly when a particularly sweet scene careens into saccharine territory.
Making it all the harder still is that, as with culinary tastes, everyones mileage will vary.
I kept thinking back to this question of how sweet istoosweet while watchingPoses Something Borrowed, Something Blue.
At times, the episode felt like an all too indulgent confection that left my teeth aching.
Ive praisedPosefor dreaming up a storybook world for its characters.
For gifting them both presents and futures they couldnt have imagined for themselves.
We all need a meal before we indulge in desserts.
How rare it is for her to have even conceived of the success of everyone around her.
Its a sweet moment.
Im so glad I got to live through this, beams Blanca.
I didnt dare dream that big, Angel admits.
And, as Blanca puts it: Everybody else gets to live in a world of maybe.
But we live in a world of never-gonna-happen.
Your bride is unlike any other, Elektra tells Papi.
She will be the first.
The first from a community that has been excluded from happily ever after.
One element that did work perfectly was the confrontation between Elektra and the bridal store owner.
You dont have to accept us.
Another great line reading of hers?
I was destined to have more coins than Scrooge McDuck.
Oh, and heres another: I have become the McDonalds of the phone-sex industry.
With two episodes ahead, I hope the show stops racing to the finish line.
We want to see you strut, not sprint.
She has a 1983 Basquiat painting (Eyes and Eggs) in her dining room!
She looks like a Puerto Rican Lady Diana.
No truer words have been spoken.
Dont give me that Latino machista bullshit an imperative we should all follow on any given day.
No one has time for that.
I really hope we get to meet Jerome from the strip club.
A Prince-scored male-stripper scene?
