Pose co-creator Steven Canals: A shortened third and final season was always the plan

Variety

“If you watch this season, and more specifically the finale, that was what it was always intended to be,” Canals said Monday while discussing the seven-episode final season. “If you go back to the first season, everything was a set up for this final chapter. Stories have a beginning, middle and an end, and this final season was the end of this three-arc narrative that we’ve been telling. … It’s us finally allowing our characters to explore what it means to have all of the things that they very clearly stated in the first season that they wanted.” Although Canals noted they “certainly could have continued to create narrative around these characters and this world, and we talked about (that) in the writers’ room,” ultimately the reason Season 3 is the last is because, “for me as a true lover of television, one of the things that has always frustrated me is when I am tuning into a season of television and I can tell this season just feels like filler. “The last thing I wanted to do to our audience was create narrative simply to create narrative, and with no real intention. I could see the ending … and it made sense to land the plane comfortably, if you will.”