Transparent

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Season 1
Season #: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
7.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 254 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 195 out of 254
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 254
  3. Negative: 44 out of 254
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  1. 4321ACTION
    Nov 15, 2014
    0
    Garbage. From the very beginning to the very end, this show has done nothing but add to the desensitization and dumbing down of society. There is more to life than just sex, but according to this trash, it all boils down to getting your rocks off. Too much time on our hands. Pfff...Nothing but trash. Go away already.
  2. Rex_richards
    Jan 28, 2015
    3
    Yet another show with so much positive hype you feel almost guilty being negative about it. BUT, all the main characters are pretty much unlikable most of the time. I just don't care about any of them, Maybe if I was a upper middle class american with an interest in jewish culture and family values then... but no, that also describes Curb your enthusiasm, arrested development, and manyYet another show with so much positive hype you feel almost guilty being negative about it. BUT, all the main characters are pretty much unlikable most of the time. I just don't care about any of them, Maybe if I was a upper middle class american with an interest in jewish culture and family values then... but no, that also describes Curb your enthusiasm, arrested development, and many other shows that are totally brilliant.
    It's ultimately really trashy with every possible human deviation and sexual fetish imaginable thrown into the pot. But the characters are all just so selfish you don't really give a rats ass what happens to any of them after about episode 4.    … Expand
  3. toliverjohn
    Jan 9, 2015
    0
    I guess if you are gay this show is for you. I don't find it funny or interesting at all! The characters act self absorbed and weird for the most part.
  4. traderebay
    Jan 16, 2015
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I was surprised at all of the 10's this series received. As you can see I think it gets a zero.

    This series is about a bunch of upper middle class, spoiled people who have a lot of issues.

    Just to give a little perspective, Shameless is about a lower class family with a lot of problems with an idiot as the father. Most of the family members make bad decisions due to poverty and poor parenting skills.

    It seems real and you can relate to their problems.

    In this series you have a wealthy, educated, family with lots of problems. Why do they have all these problems? Who knows? The producers just show their current, strange problems and in the first two shows they don't give any clue why everyone is so screwed up. I guess you are supposed to infer that Jeffery Tambor has lied to his wife, kids, and coworkers about his desire to change genders. His lies have led to all the kids problems. I guess.

    His two daughters are so self absorbed that they are very unsympathetic.

    The son is looking for love in all the wrong places.

    I just did not find this show funny at all.

    When I see the show tagged as a comedy I expect to laugh a little.    … Expand
  5. madamebizini
    Oct 15, 2014
    0
    The acting was good. Story line was interesting. But if you don't care at all about goodness, morality, decency, modesty, then you will like this show. For me it was a little to disturbing and creepy. I gave it an honest try because I have enjoyed these actors in other shows however, I won't be watching it again.
  6. baoboa
    Dec 15, 2014
    0
    blah blah blah.. nothing but stupid programming for stupid people that have nothing more important to do with their lives than look for the next "get off" session. Seriously, enough with the desensitization already.
  7. ParisLove
    Feb 28, 2015
    1
    Another show that seems to be unjustifiably favoured by the hollywood bigwigs. Dont get me wrong, I love Jeffrey Tambor. He cracks me up. But, this show is slow and empty. It's not show you cant wait for more of. Some of the characters are too annoying to watch. This show seems to be getting the hype due to hollywood connections and not true quality.
  8. DakotaFred
    Jun 11, 2015
    0
    Um.. OK, THIS is the highest rated show on this site?! haha It's some kind of joke, right? This must be one of if not the most shallow shock-for-ratings shows ever made. #1.. what a joke!
  9. wtfskilz
    Dec 15, 2014
    2
    Satin and Showtime's Shameless had a baby and Transparent was born
    It is disturbing that this show is top rated this shows the audience lacks morality and is no longer capable to discern wrong and right.
  10. muses18
    Jan 8, 2015
    2
    I for one am always up for a good sex scene or two, but this show is bordering on the absurd. It should be called Transporno. If you like watching ugly people having sex with good looking people ALL the time (yeah, that's realistic)...then this is the show for you. The children are depicted as selfish and extremely unlikeable, which is clearly intentional. In the end you wind upI for one am always up for a good sex scene or two, but this show is bordering on the absurd. It should be called Transporno. If you like watching ugly people having sex with good looking people ALL the time (yeah, that's realistic)...then this is the show for you. The children are depicted as selfish and extremely unlikeable, which is clearly intentional. In the end you wind up cringing whenever a new character is introduced, because inevitably one of them wind up (as the butch so poignantly states) "fcking your brains out". Extremely tedious. However, all that being said, Jeffrey Tambor and Judith Light are terrific. It would have been a much better show if it just focused on them.… Expand

Awards & Rankings

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#4 Best TV Season of 2014
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#31 Most Discussed TV Season of 2014
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#13 Most Shared TV Season of 2014

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Metascore
92

Universal acclaim - based on 29 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 28 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 29
  3. Negative: 0 out of 29
  1. The Atlantic
    Reviewed by: Spencer Kornhaber
    Sep 23, 2016
    100
    The show creator Jill Soloway’s deeply empathetic filmmaking style and her writers’ penchant for fine, funny details give the series soul and prevent the characters from tipping over into full monstrousness. The performances are more precise than ever, naturalistically portraying people who are neither wholly good nor wholly bad. Most impressive is how Soloway’s team keeps finding fresh angles on the same characters navigating the same big existential questions.
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  2. RogerEbert.com
    Reviewed by: Brian Tallerico
    Dec 10, 2015
    90
    There are times when “Transparent” will run into a narrative convenience that it often seems too good for--someone stopping by a party at just the right time, someone running into someone in public, etc. Or a character will express something that seems just a bit too self-aware in an argument. I like these characters so much that I really just want to sit around and listen to them talk naturally to each other, examining the dynamics between one of the most fascinating families on TV.
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  3. Uncle Barky
    Reviewed by: Ed Bark
    Sep 30, 2014
    91
    This is the series that puts Amazon Prime on the map, if not yet on the same level with competing streamer Netflix.
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