Like many ppl already said , the last episode sucks. But hey there were 4 great seasons before that. And those were good so enjoy the show, and than open a bottle of wine for the last episode ...
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tomekweb-177-16175813 October 2019
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k-i-r-s-t-y15 October 2014I could blurb on about how poignant this programme is.
I could parp on about how fabulous Jeffrey Tambor is.
I could ramble on about how enlightening it is or I could just say that I loved it, a lot.
Tis true, I really truly loved it. I did a spot of that binge watching thing, made my partner watch it and watched it again with her. I do not think that it is being hyped up due to the subject matter, it is simply a bleeding good programme. The humour doesn't come from a man in a dress, it comes from the keen observations in the writing and the great acting (maybe not from Judith Light's portrayal of an elderly Jewish woman, which I thought was a tad over the top on occasion, not so much in the flash backs though, which were quite lovely). It made me laugh, smile, cry, feel a lot of different emotions through each episode.
After watching it twice, I then went onto to reading about it and found a whole new appreciation for what it is and what Jill Soloway has done here, even though I thought it was fab before, I love it all the more knowing the background to the writing and making of it.
Looking forward to season two, I hope a TV channel picks it up, I'm not a huge fan of this video streaming thing and would prefer to see on a big screen. -
adamray10113 July 2014I was really spellbound by how this pilot played out. It didn't spoon feed you with the lives of three siblings and their father - played by the marvelous talent Jeffrey Tambor, instead it hinted at the lives that we all sort of live by.
I nearly fell to tears when Tambor's character is describing how his children are selfish. That short scene really put the hooks in the realism of not only family drama but the drama of those who live a transgender life.
Please do not miss this show. If you're looking for something upbeat and cleaver, look elsewhere. This show alone is going to rock your boat of emotion, dark humor, and the reality we all face deep within ourselves. -
jm107017 March 2015I kept watching and watching, hoping that as I got to know them I would begin to care about this extraordinarily shallow, spoiled and obnoxious bunch of people - or even to laugh at them for being so relentlessly revolting - but the opposite happened. By the middle of Episode 7 I loathed every one of them so deeply that I just wished The Big One would finally come along, pull the chain, and flush the entire state of California to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean where it belongs. Then it occurred to me that I didn't HAVE to watch this crap, so I stopped.
I love the idea behind this series, and it might have been really good if only there were at least one character I could stand to watch, or laugh at, or maybe even like. There isn't.
Tambor and Hoffman are excellent in roles that fit their talents so perfectly that it's hard now to imagine either of them ever playing any other characters. I do care about those two actors - especially, now, for the first time, Hoffman. I just don't care at all about either character. I wish I wished Maura well, but I just don't. I can't. She's too dishonest and shallow and selfish.
The other actors - with one notable exception - are all right but don't bring any personal depth to their tiresome, narcissistic characters, as Tambor and Hoffman do. The exception is Judith Light, whose restrained and sensitive performance in Save Me was a revelation. Here she shows no subtlety or intelligence at all, playing a Southern California Jewish matron so shrill and strident that the human being is completely lost in the stereotype.
Most of the writing is clever, the production is excellent, and the series might have been a real treat if I could only have cared about even ONE of the profoundly revolting characters. -
egoode23 December 2014I had lots of friends keep letting me know they had watched Transparent and thought I should watch it. I had been holding off though as my Dad came out as transgender about 2.5 years ago and was worried how I would react to it.
Overall I really enjoyed the series but there were conversations that were almost word for word the same as one's I had when I first found out about my Dad and I did end up in tears at points remembering how hard it all seemed at the time.
I think the series perfectly shows how you start questioning your life when you discover something major about your parents that you never could have guessed but may have felt things weren't quite as they seemed. I know I definitely felt my Dad had been hiding something for years before I found out but never suspected it was wanting to be a woman.
The acting is fantastic in this series and the story is definitely an aspect of life that most people haven't had much contact with or know much about but does seem to be something more people are willing to share and make people more aware of. -
This is the story of a family, relationships, the lies we tell ourselves and each other. Dark yet warming, the pilot takes its time introducing its characters, revealing their deeply held flaws. Though the writing is naturalistic and a joy, the acting is what reveals the full possibilities of this wonderful series. Jeffery Tambor is a revelation, and his acting here merits Emmy consideration. Add to that the acting of Gabby Hoffman and Jay Duplass as the conflicted son and you have a sparkling main cast. I cannot recommend this pilot enough, and I urge you to watch it, enjoy it, and if you love it, tell Amazon as much. I eagerly await a continuation of this Families story.
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janet-42-1674728 October 2014I repeat. Authentic.
There are only a few really good shows on television, and this is one of those few. It is not filmed with the bright lights of a movie set. There are shadows and misplaced items just like in any real home or office. The clothing looks worn, the actors bodies are imperfect.
It's perfect.
All the actors are first rate. The dialog fits in their mouths and comes easily from the gut.
Most important, this is not a one-note song. It is a symphony of harmony and, more often, dissonance. There are so many stories within this one story.
Best of all, I like being surprised. As in real life, you can not predict the characters behavior just on your own past experience. You are the unseen observer to a very real family.
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johnw-925-8822216 February 2014Stumbled upon this pilot because I heard that Jill Soloway, of Six Feet Under fame, was connected to the production. I have never watched anything that was an original Amazon product. Hearing something was an Amazon product would not have made me run to watch!
However, this pilot is beautifully written, expertly acted, and very moving.
The plot revolves around a complicated family of grown children. Each more complicated and self-involved than the other. And at the center is the father, played achingly by Jeffrey Tambor. Divorced, alone, trying to recreate himself, Tambor emits the humor and humanity he always has, but with greater depth and gravity than I have seen in his work previously. It is a great part, and Tambor is magnificent.
I eagerly await more. -
ian8027 September 2014A truly fantastic show. It is raw, painful, heartbreaking...and yet it manages to warm the heart. This show is currently at 7.1 on this site, but I am certain that rating will rise as more people see it.
All the of the performers shine. I won't go down the list - the cast is truly top-notch. The obvious mention, though: Jeffrey Tambor. He is a revelation (can an acclaimed actor be a revelation?). While he could have resorted to overplaying moments, he instead keeps the character grounded and real throughout. His monologue in the pilot is a masterclass in acting. Judith Light really gets to shine in the later part of the season - balancing humor and pathos perfectly.
If I have one complaint, the season seems to lag near the end. Not in quality, just in tone. While the series starts with a healthy dose of humor and warmth, we're offered less in the last few episodes. The action drifts away from Morty/Maura and, as a result, the the show loses some of its heartfelt center. Personally, I would have preferred wrapping up the season with the focus on Maura.
I feel confident (knock on wood) that we will get more of the Pfeffermans. I certainly hope so -- this series has been a rare treat. I think Amazon has a home run with Transparent - and they really hit this one out of the park. -
Dr_Coulardeau9 September 2017This series is surprisingly bizarre. The summary of it is explicit and at the same time evasive. It does not really describe the atmosphere and meaning of this altogether queer – the queer of LGBTQ – sitcom.
"When the Pfefferman family patriarch makes a dramatic admission, the entire family's secrets start to spill out, and each of them spins in a different direction as they begin to figure out who they are going to become. Starring Jeffrey Tambor, Judith Light, Amy Landecker, Jay Duplass, and Gaby Hoffman."
As you find out by just reading that summary, it does not mention we are dealing with a Jewish family. That implies some cultural, social and ideological, not to mention religious, elements that structure and construct the meaning of the series. In the same way, it does not mention the fact the "family patriarch" was a university professor and researcher and has now retired. He was and still is an intellectual that provided and still provides his family with a tremendous level of financial and economic resources. That creates real and devastating dependency in the members of the family. They are from beginning to end enslaved to the father, in a Jewish family where the Jewishness is transmitted by the mother and in a community where the rabbi is a woman.
Think then of the meaning of the father (by the way the real patriarch is the grandfather who is buried in the last episode) deciding to become a trans woman in his late sixties. It is a challenge to the Jewish character of his wife since he is not divorced. It is a challenge to his secondary Jewish relation to his children who are Jewish because their mother is Jewish and this fact cannot be changed by the decision of the father to define himself as a woman though he remains on the trans-vestite side of his trans approach of his gender rather than on the trans-hormonal side. That only makes the necessary adjustments of the other family members' approaches of their husband or father quite superficial since it is only changing the gender of the pronouns used for any reference to him, sorry her. He remains a HE under a SHE surface, and the mother does not seem to be able to change her pronominal reference to HIM, not HER.
That makes his move quite pathetic and the wife is quite justified in her just standing on the side, watchful, curious, intrigued and after all nothing else, certainly not supportive.
The three children are quite special.
The elder daughter defines herself as a lesbian and reveals she has always been and she steals her unique lesbian partner from her own marriage in what becomes a mid-life crisis, supported by the father who gives this lesbian couple the family house after he has moved out of it. She is possessive and at the same time she regrets and maybe nostalgically dreams of her ex-husband since she gets a divorce from him, but he is fluid enough to let her (them) have the children of their marriage quite often. He does not seem to really resent the strange situation his ex-wife has created.
The second child, the son, is a greedy sentimental love addict, in fact not love really but only his hormonal outlets that have to be numerous and frequent. He is an authoritarian and possessive music manager fired from the label he was working for but then he is financed by his father to start his own label. He supposedly falls in love with the female rabbi of the community but he is untrustworthy with her and she – let's hope – is clear enough to know that one missed rendezvous is forgivable but a second is not and yet she only seems to finally walk away after a third unfaithful episode more or less amplified by his younger sister's gossiping. He has a propensity to invite his ex-lovers, at least some of them, to his family happenings even when he is supposed to concentrate on the rabbi he has declared his first and only real love. What's more, the series will grant him a very contradictory present: an undeclared and so far unrecognized and unclaimed son. To jump from being the permanent and flippant oats-sower for more than twenty years to being the father of an adult son is majestically iconoclastic since this son is a Christian and he says graces before eating, which is not exactly the fashion in this Jewish family.
The last child of this triad is a younger daughter who is absolutely unable to keep to one objective and one plan for more than six months in her life. She is entirely covered and financed by the father in all her attempts at occupying her free time with entertaining activities that never last long. What's more, she is a very vicious – though only half conscious – gossip that loves revealing things that are both half true and half false to people who should be protected from those nasty revelations. She hurts everyone around her and then she humbly begs like a puppy for everyone to forgive her and take her back under their protection and their financing.
So the superficial gender trans-formation of the father in that situation is more a gadget than a real deeply explored change. As a sitcom, it is nicely entertaining but it is also quite circumstantial and thus lacks real matter.
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gprusakowski13 November 2017What started out as a unique idea and was well written and acted has quickly gone the way of most TV and lost it's way. This last season is simply an annoying repetition of the various characters dysfunctional relationships and in ability to cope. In many ways a lot like my own family which drives me totally nuts. It did better when it was examining the issues and angst of becoming a trans late in life but now has decided to abandon that theme and go on to frustrating portraits of Jewish angst. We cannot follow this show any longer and have abandoned it for more intelligent viewing. This is now nothing more than a copy of all of Woody Allen's earlier movie themes.
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claredin27 September 2014I just finished watching the entire 10 episodes in season 1 and I must say I am truly impressed with this work. Jeffrey Tambor is amazing and the rest of the cast is equally great. I like the flashback sequences, the choice of actors and their younger counterparts, the stories and subplots, and the fact that these people are not all pretty and polished.
What really struck home with me is the friends I know who have all seen and experienced the types of struggles that Moira experienced in her transition, including the restroom situation, the explanation of the difference between crossdressers and transsexuals, the loss of family and friends over transition, etc. Everything is handled poignantly without sensationalism. I love the trans women they found to star in this series (Trace Lysette is a beauty!) and I look forward to watching the next season's shows! -
Boy I really wanted to like this series. I watched all of Season 1, took a break, and then started watching season 2. I've decided to stop watching because I am so disappointed with the storyline and the characters. This show presents a unique opportunity to include story lines that are unique and important to the transgender community. However, they've chosen to focus on the family and extended family members instead of Jeffrey Tambor's transgender character. This probably would have been acceptable except the family members are so unlikeable! As portrayed they are all selfish, self-absorbed and whiny. It is uncomfortable and for me, unwatchable. I love Judith Light but her character as Jeffrey Tambor's wife is the stereotypical overbearing wisecracking Jewish mom. Jeffrey Tambor is outstanding and is well-deserving of the awards he is receiving. That's really the only redeeming quality of the show. Even the dreadful "I am Cait" deals with trans issues better than this series.
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Rob-O-Cop11 August 2018In what could have been an insight into the different lives of a culture we rarely get to contemplate we instead get to focus on a collection of ugly characters believably reflecting the current state of the self centered American psyche. The dialog is witty, the acting is convincing, and the action is believable for the country it comes from, and it's a thoroughly engrossingly unpleasant experience that eventually has you wondering "why am I watching these horrible people?". It's like a lot of American TV of recent years, deriving entertainment from pain & ugliness, and feeding back into the normalisation of that thinking. I got tricked into watching this by the interesting premise and revolted by the self centered side characters to the point of having to abandon the exercise. I don't want these people in my life.
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gingerly_kimberly28 September 2014I think the reason this show does not have higher than 7.2 as I write this has got to be mostly because of bigots leaving 1 star ratings because Transparent is about something not completely within their delusional "morals". I rate this show currently a 10. This is my first review here, that is how strongly I felt against the under 8 rating. I have watched the first two episodes and I really enjoyed them (edit: 4 now, still great!). I have a feeling I will finish the show in just a couple days! It reminds me of Showtime shows, almost like Nurse Jackie, Weeds, United States of Tara etc. Not in a way I can explain, just a feeling I get.
Like I said this is my first review so forgive me for not being able to really get across my feelings. It is modern and has a bite to it. Transparent is tackling some really emotional issues in a way that both seem real and serious without making you feel uncomfortable. I adore this one already and really hope for more seasons! It has adult language, minor drug use, full frontal and deals with controversial issues so I wouldn't watch with the kids but after bedtime this one is a winner! -
AaronMendozaJr26 November 2015If you find this series "boring" or "bland", then you clearly cannot judge a TV series correctly. Transparent: Season 1 introduces us to an elderly man transitioning and how it affects those around him. It's a heartfelt and emotional journey for all characters. Love is put to the test and it has GREAT character development. It's a smart and beautiful show that truly deserves ever praise and award it got. There's so much to appreciate along this show. It's not so much as plot heavy, it's more focused on the characters and how, just like their father, is trying to find their identity. If you like smart and daring shows, then you should definitely check this out. Maybe along the way, you'll discover more about yourself as well.
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Alexandra_Rotaru8 October 2014I have been a TV shows junkie for a long time now and I can't remember the last time I got excited about a new show like I did after seeing the first episode. This isn't an action show this has a personality based synopsis. I find the characters to be very genuine and believable with just enough of a shock factor to make it interesting without bordering the gross. It's not a comedy, but some scenes have a tragic humor to it that make you relate. The relationship between family members is very real. It talks about divorce, lgbt, the struggle to function in a modern society where classic values are still considered the norm but where you can no longer go by them. It shows an era in which confusion is a major problem and a part of day to day life.
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dara-fink17 September 2017Let me say at the outset that there have been a lot of disappointed reviewers, and most of them just don't get it - the comedy and the drama come from a series of contrasts.
The rest of the cast are so delightfully screwed up that it helps us to be sympathetic to Jeffrey Tambor's character. This isn't a one-trick pony, as the continuing adventures of the entire cast sets up some beautiful compare and contrast moments.
Not that this is for everybody. If your are looking for high discourse, the don't choose a comedy, and don't try to map an excellent slow comedy into a disappointing drama. It is simply a well-written light comedy about society and the opening up of transgender issues within that context. -
IOBdennis16 December 2015This may be the very best writing of any television series yet. This particular episode is filled with multiple layers and complexities, nuances, and subtleties that positively create, for me, the best viewing experience on TV today. The acting is perfect: perfect individual performances and ensemble playing. What a gem of a cast! And the show deserves additional kudos. For example, look at the costumes in the opening 4-minute long single shot (that's an accomplishment in itself) in the first episode of season two. There are wonderful mismatches and mis-fittings, and the scene itself is one of the best examples of madness and family dis-functionality. I wanted to scream by the end of it. Talk about capturing the essence of something! Bravo. And you have to watch the episode more than once to catch some of the one- liners that pepper this episode. They are hilarious: as when people are told to smile for the camera and the reaction of "You can't smile when you say that" punches you in the gut. The flashback sequence is mesmerizing and horrific, knowing history as things turned out. And the closing shot of the 4 rooms across the hotel balcony is breath-taking, ending with another gut-puncher.
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belindasloat13 February 2014I love, love, love this new show! It has the perfect balance of emotions; love, fear of rejection, family, complex issues, lust, disappointment, and just everyday life.
The characters were substantial and create a sense of relate-ability because they are so multi faceted out of the gate.
Shares the originality of Six Feet Under and United States of Tara in that the realness of familial relations can clearly seen from the dad playing favorites and the siblings giving each other a hard time, to reminiscing about childhood, to accepting or not accepting each other at face value.
We as humans vacillate everyday between conformance in wanting to fit in to our perception of the norm to breaking down to our internal barriers and behaving like true deviants of that same conformity.
If you love quirky, fun, real, style and substance then this show is for you! -
caspian197815 February 2014Stories like this only come every so often. Its subject matter is just as strong and as unique as it's cast of characters. I decided to take a chance on watching the pilot after hearing that Jeffrey Tambor plays an interesting role in this story. Beyond original, it is one of his toughest and brilliant performances in his long artistic career. The pace of the show along with it's abundance use of nudity reflects the mundane as well as the rawness Transparent showcases. It's audience is guaranteed to grow as the subject matter starts to become universal to each of the show's characters. Each of them are going through a transformation. This fantastic cast includes Gaby Hoffmann, Judith Light, Jay Duplass, Amy Landecker and Rob Huebel. Each bring a subtle interest to the show's subject matter.
At times there are moments of comedy, sadness and deep thought. Very few shows are able to capture this. Second to only House of Cards, Transparent will and should be the most watched "online" series today. -
ich_david_und_gott27 September 2014Well, when I first saw the first episode, I thought: Wow, that might be a great comedy! Great characters, promising actors, interesting setup, almost endless possibilities. I was sure there would be a lot of light hearted and fun scenes, mixed in with a little bit of bittersweetness. But boy, was I wrong. Upon watching about half of all of the episode I can say the following: It's a straight forward dramedy. Of course there is the funny and light stuff but that's merely the surface. Beneath it lies a far more interesting because way more colorful story. There is the dad, who was unhappy almost his whole life, now changing it and then realizing that this might not be what he hoped for. His new exiting lifestyle comes with a whole lot more problems than he might have anticipated. He's new to all of it, yet he doesn't seem to fit in in either world. Then there's the oldest of his kids. She is good looking, has a family, seems to be happy, then her long lost lesbian lover turns up and before you know it, her whole life turns upside down as well. She leaves everything behind for her new/old girlfriend and realizes that it might not be as easy as she though. Next there's the son. Successful, a lot of women, a lot of sex, loads of money. But as the story progresses you get to see more and more that he is desperately looking for someone to connect with. Maybe have a family, just change his whole lifestyle. And last but not least, the youngest daughter. She is quirky and awkward looking, a bit self conscious, not sure where she stands in life. She is intelligent yet unable to get a real job. She wants to change her appearances yet she is afraid of changing her looks. All in all it goes pretty deep into four troubled minds that seem to be unable to be true to themselves and find happiness along the way. What I like most about it is that although discussing or touching a lot of difficult topics along the way the series manages to stay pretty light footed and almost funny about it. Almost. I think what most people won't like is that it is neither a drama nor a comedy but kind of both. And therein lies the problem: People who want to watch a drama will be upset with the slow pace, serious topics and lack of big laughs, people who want to watch a drama will be upset because the series lacks the darkness, the heaviness and yes, the drama. But for me and everyone else who is okay with that, go ahead and enjoy the fine acting and story and of course the very good soundtrack. Plus there is the whole LGBT-topic which is new in a series, at least for me. Really liked it, hope for more!
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Let me start off by saying that this is the first television series that I've watched through and through in almost 5 years. It was captivating from the start. However, in each episode you are almost guaranteed to find yourself getting more and more tired of Maura's three children. All of them are caught up in so much utter selfishness, doing extremely immature and irresponsible things with their lives and not seeming to care how the consequences of their choices affect others. While Jeffrey Tambor's character is very likable and natural, the others are just so over the top in their quest to portray the modern generation.
We'll start with Maura's oldest daughter, Sarah. After reuniting with her college lover (a woman named Tammy), she immediately rekindles an affair with her despite already being married with children. She ends up leaving her husband and children behind for this woman and trying to take over the job of changing and remodeling her childhood house so she and her lover can live in it, despite objections from her other siblings. She's an intoxicated, marijuana induced spin on a 40-something woman who's jumping out of the nest into an irresponsible life plan that maybe a 20-year old something with not so much to lose would be better off making.
Then there's Josh, Maura's son. He seems to be the most responsible one of the three siblings, but he still hasn't settled down and basically sleeps with a different woman every night. This has devastating consequences, as the woman he does supposedly love ends up getting pregnant and getting an abortion, and he hasn't got a healthy enough relationship with her to deal with that (since he's so detached from sleeping around so much probably).
Finally there's Ali, the youngest sibling who SERIOUSLY needs to grow up. She's supposedly the embodiment of the new millennials; a lady who doesn't have a job, can't handle money, has no clue what she wants to do with her life, and can't get out of the irresponsible partying phase from her teenage years. Her naivete just comes off as stupid and foolish.
You just wish that these kids would stop being so damn selfish, because it really takes a toll on Maura who is going through a big transition in his life into becoming a completely different gender and has no one there to stand up and really be there to support him. The overwhelmingly self-centered children was really the put off for me. While I think that the series is good, the selfishness was depressing and frankly rather overkill. -
I imagine this series received critical acclaim and garnered the Golden Globe for Best Television Series because of its groundbreaking subject matter. It is groundbreaking and it does deal with topics rarely seen on the small screen. But leaving behind its envelope pushing and taking it simply as a drama (it's not a comedy at all, even though it won in the Comedy category), Transparent fails on a number of levels.
Series creator and writer Jill Soloway missteps by populating the story with an assortment of aggravating characters, particularly the three grown children of Maura Pfefferman, the transgender father played by Jeffrey Tambor. These three whining ninnies are thoroughly unlikable and annoying. Scratch that - they're reprehensible. It may have been Soloway's intention to present a flawed family, but she forgot to give the kids a single redeeming quality. Eldest daughter Sarah (Amy Landecker) is an upper, upper middle class soccer mom with a stable husband and two kids who suddenly chucks it all one fine day to pursue her repressed lesbianism with a butch flame from her college years, only to decide a short time later that the the gal-on-gal lifestyle may not be her thing after all. Son Josh (Jay Duplass) is a sleazy, well-to-do record company manager who sleeps with lots of young groupie types and impregnates a bubbleheaded chanteuse, but who really gets off on old ladies. Then there's la crème de la crème of the irritating threesome, youngest sibling Ali (Gaby Hoffman), an unemployed nymphomaniac who vacillates between bedding black men, a kinky female-to-male lover, and maybe - just maybe - her best girlfriend who's also sleeping with her hyper-sexed brother. You want to smack all of these kids, but it's Ali you really want to hit over and over again.
Then there's the story. While Maura's struggles with accepting her female gender identity should be Transparent's focus, they take a backseat to the insignificant, and at times, completely implausible, trials and tribulations of the Terrible Trio. Maura's coming out to her children barely registers with them. They practically acknowledge it in passing, then go back to their petty navel gazing. So instead of watching a show about a man who becomes a woman, we watch a show about selfish adults who just happen to have a transgender parent that shows up occasionally to give them money. Only when the focus is on Maura, her small circle of friends, her explorations of her new world, and the humiliation she sometimes faces as an out transgender woman does Transparent feel authentic and moving. Sadly, these moments are few.
Finally, Soloway's writing is mediocre at best. The dialogue among the characters is frequently stilted, and there appear to be many improvised moments that the actors simply fumble. And I would be remiss if I didn't mention Melora Hardin's performance as Sarah's masculine partner Tammy. Hardin plays her as an over the top caricature, slouched forward, legs in a constant wide stance, fingers hooked into her blue jean belt loops. It's unintentionally comical and cringe-worthy.
On the positive side, Transparent does has some noteworthy performances. Jeffrey Tambor brings the right balance of wonder, joy, fear, and world weariness to Maura, and he is every bit deserving of his Golden Globe nod. Bradley Whitford does a surprising and effective turn as Maura's secret transvestite friend Marcy, and Alexandra Billings, as Davina, Maura's transgender confidante, is superb. Judith Light brings nice comic relief to the proceedings as Maura's ex-wife Shelly, but she's completely under-utilized.
All this talent, however, can't overcome the weak script and unsympathetic characters. Transparent has indeed set a new precedent in recognizing the transgender world. I just wish it had done a better job. -
I so loved this one, didn't realise it was a pilot and was so looking forward to getting the remainder of the season 1, but there wasn't anymore. I searched for ages on all the streaming channels to see if I could find it...surely they wouldn't stop after just one episode? Great actors and great family drama, I particularly loved the story of the transvestite dad.....there is nothing else like this on at the moment, please do more of them......all of the actors' performances were very natural and it was great to see a drama that was just about a normal family without any glitz or glamour but at the same time showed how each family has its own challenges....does anyone know of anything else on at the moment that is like this? ....