Pose season 2, episode 8 recap: Revelations

Revelations are the name of the game in this week’s episode of Pose.

Pose focuses on a lot of revelations in this week’s episode, and they are ones that may cause the entire Evangelista house to fall apart.

One of the biggest to come to light, however, is the relationship between Pray Tell and Ricky. In last week’s episode, “Blow”, the two became close after Ricky learned he tested positive for HIV.

Pray was there to comfort him and as expected, one thing led to another, and the two end up sharing a steamy sex scene together in this week’s episode. Both of them share the disease in common and somehow find solace and comfort in each other’s arms. Of course, their friends, mainly Blanca and Damon, aren’t going to be very understanding of it when they found out.

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This episode of Pose hits Damon hard because it’s taken him a while to trust Ricky once again, but once he learns about Ricky’s HIV status and the fact that he’s been sleeping with Pray, it sends Damon off the edge. He’s a hot mess and taking it out on everyone including Blanca and Angel.

He takes this fighting opportunity to tell Blanca that Angel has been doing drugs, to which Blanca’s response is straight-up denial.

Speaking of Angel, Pose is taking her down the path of success as she finds herself gracing magazine covers and falling deeper and deeper into love with Papi. Things couldn’t really be better, except you know the whole drug use thing.

After her confrontation with Damon, Angel uses the opportunity to tell Blanca she’s going to move out voluntarily because it’s just about that time. She’s doing so well for herself as Papi points out and deserves to bask in the glory and success of it. Poor Blanca, her house is falling apart!

By the end of the episode, Damon manages to mend his relationships with everyone because he’s heading off to Europe to go on tour with Malcolm McLaren (no idea who that is, anyone that does–please enlighten us!). This pretty much empties out the Evangelista House leaving Blanca behind, who is overjoyed at her children’s success but heartbroken over their absence.

With just two episodes of Pose left this season, I’m eager to see where we leave off. It seems like everyone is moving on in their lives, which begs the question–what’s next?

Pose airs every Tuesday at 10 PM on FX!