It’s hard to stand out in a world with 800 new series debuting every year. How do you get noticed? Is it better to make the best show of the year? Or the worst? Or in the case of “Pose” (9 p.m. Sunday, FX, TV-MA), a little bit of both?
It’s not every day that a major television production comes along (in this case written and directed by the insanely prolific Ryan Murphy) that is based on a small 1990 documentary. For most viewers, director Jennie Livingston’s “Paris Is Burning” was the first they’d ever heard of the Harlem drag ball scene, elaborate fashion and performance competitions between “houses” of drag artists whose flamboyant creativity and audacious showmanship stood in contrast to their outcast status, with some participants homeless and others afflicted with AIDS.
