I had to go to Amazon for something and noticed (not that you could miss it) they have a new TV show called Transparent. Looks like it just came out today, Jeffery Tambor is the lead, there’s a few other b-listers in it.
Anyone else watching it. It seems to be getting great reviews, but, honestly, I’m 2 episodes in and really bored. I’ll keep watching it to see if it picks up since there’s nothing else on and I don’t mind it on in the background. Hopefully this is just like any other TV show were they’re still establishing the ground work, but it’s really not clicking for me yet.
For anyone looking to watch it, there’s nudity and A LOT of sex, including the very first scene of the pilot. Might want to wait for the kids to go to bed and you probably shouldn’t try to watch it at work.
Watched one ep tonight. It looks like a real snooze-fest of rehashed bits going back to “thirtysomething” and “My So-Called Life” and even “Mary Hartman,” but, you know, with boobs, bush and LGBT making it all completely new and hipster.
I made it to episode three last night. Unless someone gets past that and says it gets better, I’m done with it. I don’t care about all the amazing reviews, I was bored to tears with it.
This is one of those shows (like the movie Clockwatchers) that, when people say ‘that wouldn’t happen in real life’, well, this is why they don’t make TV shows like real life, because real life is boring.
I watched a couple of episodes and I love it. So, everything moves at a more ''normal" speed than shows like Breaking Bad or that zombie show, but it’s very good. Plus, I was expecting slapstick, camp stuff, given the topic, but it wasn’t, it was touching.
The kids are complete assholes, but I feel as though I know those assholes, I’ve seen them around several times.
I watched the pilot episode yesterday (Well, Saturday, it’s past midnight now.)
Bastards. I had all sorts of plans for Saturday. What I ended up doing was marathoning the entire season. Couldn’t help it, the show is just that good.
It’s billed as a “comedy-drama” but I found it to mostly be melancholy and lonely. Which sounds bad, but it’s actually a beautiful show about people stumbling through discovering themselves.
I agree. The heart of the show is Tambor and the kids are just the fucking worst people you can imagine having to interact with in the real world.
You start feeling bad for everyone in their lives…except for Melora Hardin’s character. She can go to hell for what she did to that amazing house.
I like the flashbacks with Bradley Whitford a lot.
I agree that the kids are a mess, but the dad isn’t exactly amazing. I understand that he was going through a lot of personal turmoil but he seemed to put his issues way ahead of anything that may have been going on with anyone else.
Plus I thought it was odd that he was so apprehensive about telling his family for fear of their reaction, but once he told everyone he couldn’t seem to understand why they couldn’t immediately accept and celebrate it.
Just finished it this weekend. That was just brilliant! Tambor was really good in the role! I think he really nailed easing into his new life. The kids were self-centered pricks, but I think it was a way to show the things we hide from each other in day to day life - it doesn’t have to be that we are another gender - and how it makes us suck.
Just finished it. They can call it what they want, but it’s NOT a comedy or even really a dramedy- it’s more a 30 minute melodrama. Great acting, bad writing: there are just no characters I liked at all other than Shelly (Judith Light): she at least was devoted to her invalid husband. Jeffrey Tambor did as much as he could with Maura, but the character needed more development while the kids needed to be back burnered.
The sex scenes were mostly gratuitous. They added nothing and the actors weren’t good looking enough to even be good eye candy. HATED Tammy- what a bitch. As much as I disliked the son I wanted to personally slap her for tearing up that house after promising she wouldn’t. Of course I never quite understood Maura’s abandonment of the house to begin with- why wouldn’t she just sell it, or stay there but begin a new life? Of course you don’t build that house on a poli-sci professor’s salary, so I’m assuming it was inherited (or the money that bought it was). Also there was a lot of choppiness in time passage.
I couldn’t have cared less about the son and the rabbi, or the younger daughter’s trans-curiosity, or the Tammy relationship.
I’d have retooled it to focus more on Maura and his new community with only minor appearance from the kids. Whenever Tambor and Light were together there was a chemistry and acting energy that was sorely lacking at all other times.
I’d give it a C; might watch the second season but I’m not at all impatient for it.
I agree with Sampiro. Too much focused on the awful children to where Maura almost seemed like a secondary character. Their awfulness doesn’t seem to be in any way related to her life as Mort, or if it was, the writer sure didn’t show it.
But Jeffrey Tambor and Judith Light were great! Tambor just won a Golden Globe and I totally agree with it.
I really liked the episode where they went to the trans camp. It was a real twist, and felt like the most important thing to happen in the whole show.