Transparent

I loved it! Have not stopped thinking about it since I watched the last episode and now feel bereft!

I binged on all the episodes last week and loved it. The characters are still in my head and I want more!!

I just finished binge watching Transparent on Monday! What a great show. The cast is superb, and Jeffrey Tambor as Maura makes this series shine. I don’t have a lot of experience with the trans community, but Maura is so endearing.

I love this show! The best to come out in a long time, I think, and I’m SUPER happy to see you feature it here! I just wanted to second a previous commenter’s note about referring to Jeffrey Tambor’s character as she/her/hers… it’s a huge plot point in the show (proper pronouns) and something that a lot of writers (including the NYTimes!) are still having a hard time with. Such a great conversation to have, and again, so psyched to see this here.

Absolutely in love with this show. What struck me is that even though my own boring suburban family could not be more different, the family dynamic felt so familiar.

Hmm, I haven’t seen this series put your post definitely is peaking my interest! I haven’t been hooked on a TV series since Lost. Since i don’t have a television, I need to be inspired to seek out a series. Transparent might be the one I have to look up! Thanks for the tip.

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It’s a brilliant show about love of all sorts. The fantastic music was a great surprise. I also wanted to thank you for the recommendation of high maintenance, it’s lovely.

YES I love this show. I even came up with a food meny to eat while watching it! http://theactorsdiet.com/2014/12/14/binge-watchmindfully-munch-transparent/

It is the best ever. I don’t think I have ever seen such an empathically told story on a TV show. I just loved it.

I loved it! Watched the whole season in one day. It was so compelling and seemed to address a complicated issue from many different angles and in a very compassionate way which I appreciated. I’m interested to know how people in the transgender community view the show.

Abbey, I totally agree, but I heard the show creator address this in an interview on NPR fresh air, and I think it’s something about being because it was based on her father/mother, she wanted to show that particular journey starting from when They (a gender-neutral pronoun) had a male body.

I really wanted to love transparent, and I will keep watching it, but I just don’t love it as much as I want to.

I like the concept, and the little moments, but I guess my biggest problem is I don’t feel sympathetic at all towards the self-involved children. I feel like I should, since I’m sympathetic to the girls in GIRLS and the couple in the Before Sunset/Sunrise/Midnight series and am generally sympathetic towards antiheroes. And the children aren’t entirely to blame. but still, I don’t know why I just hate them. Maybe they remind me of myself in some manner?

It looks wonderful, but I’m so sick of all this pay television. I don’t have Amazon Prime, I don’t have HBO, I don’t have Showtime, I don’t have Netflix! It’s all expensive and too many things and accounts to have. Rant over.

When writing about the main character, it’s correct to use “she/her/hers” when talking about “Maura.” I’m glad you’re writing about the show, so I want to be helpful and give you this article, which I hope will be a good resource: http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/transparent-golden-globes-journalism-mistakes/

I’ve just started watching…only the first episode so far. I enjoyed it and look forward to continuing.

I had to look up the term “cisgender”…

I started it over the holidays and never finished it…just might have to go back to it! xoxo

I liked it and binged watched it, but I am such a prude, and all the sex really irks me. But it is sooooo much a part of their self involved lives. Wish it was more “implied sex”, or just laying in bed scenes. Would be just as good I think. Jeffrey Tambour is the best part. Well written and well acted.

I love the show, but I find Mort’s children SO frustrating. They are all so self-involved, as you say, and I just want to yell at them, “Grow up!” They are very flawed, and hence, real, people, but sometimes I guess I just want an escape from that. (I deal with a lot of irresponsible adults who refuse to grow up in my daily life.) So then I go watch Downton Abbey :)

We just watched the whole season over two nights–it was that compelling. Just deeply human and moving–it manages to be very, very funny while also honestly emotional and very tender about family relationships. Jeffrey Tambor is flawless and the rest of the cast is amazing.

Those people suffer all their life and deserve to be accepted as every other human being.

I haven’t seen this one yet, but it looks interesting. I like a few of the actors in it.

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LOVE this show. Thought it got to be a little much towards the end of the season with all of the issues with the kids but i’m really looking forward to next season!!

I binged watched it a couple months ago – it’s amazing! Hilarious and heartbreaking and everything in between. And how about Jan from the Office?! That caught me off guard for those first few episodes!

I do watch it–thought I’m not through the first season yet. It’s amazing! It’s super funny, and–even though this is a topic I have zero experience with–it still feels very real. I’ve been most impressed with the acting. It’s probably some of the best acting i’ve EVER seen. definitely worth seeing!

I binged on this last week! At first I wasn’t sure if I liked it, but kept watching and after a couple of episodes I was hooked and was amazed at how real it felt. Although it is very different, I felt similar after watching Boyhood recently.