Transparent: Season 5

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Amazon Instant Video | AMAZON | Season Premiere Date: September 27, 2019

Summary: The final season of Jill Soloway's dark comedy finds the Pfeffermans dealing with the loss of Maura in a two-hour long musical finale.

Creator: Jill Soloway

Genre(s): Comedy, Drama

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S5:E1. Musicale Finale
Air Date: September 27, 2019

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The Guardian Chitra Ramaswamy

Dec 3, 2019

Here is the Transparent: Musicale Finale (Amazon Prime) you dreamed of – heavy-going, light as a feather, uproarious and unbearably sad. Even its flaws are perfect. Thank. Non-binary. God. Read full review

Willa Paskin

Sep 26, 2019

[Transparent] finishes not with a whimper but a choreographed musical number titled “Joyocaust.” It’s the climax of a movie-length “Musicale Finale” that works its way through various stages of OK-ness to crescendo with something so enthusiastically, earnestly nuts it achieves a kind of transcendence. Read full review

Hank Stuever

Sep 27, 2019

A lot of song and dance, some of which is drenched in self-absorbed sap and some of which is wildly and satisfyingly jubilant, with thoughtful and often clever music written by Soloway’s composer sister, Faith Soloway. ... The show struggles to find a way to meaningfully wrap up the Pfefferman siblings’ stories, whether sung or spoken, but the actors put considerable effort into bringing “Musicale Finale” to its fullest vision. Read full review

James Poniewozik

Sep 27, 2019

What we get feels and even looks, thanks to some jarring editing, like a rush job. Sarah and Josh’s stories in particular are foreshortened. ... It doesn’t become more than a collection of moments, some transporting, some throwaway. Read full review

Melanie McFarland

Sep 30, 2019

Each over-the-top Broadway-style banger feels earnest, awkward, clumsy, and a tad self-serving. ... This is destined to stand out as one of the small screen’s stranger things. Read full review

IndieWire Ben Travers

Sep 30, 2019

It just doesn’t add up, whether you look at it from a practical standpoint or a broader figurative assessment. The “Transparent” finale feels like a desperate flailing for attention that betrays what the show did best and, worse still, such contradictory pomp comes from a series that knows it should’ve gone quietly into the night, rather than clawing tooth and nail for another day of sun. Read full review

Judy Berman

Sep 26, 2019

Excruciating 100-minute coda. ... In Musicale Finale, songs that issue straight from characters’ psyches destroy all perspective. Nothing ever cuts through the preciousness. Worse are the musical numbers themselves, which are clearly meant to be silly and self-aware but often land as unintentional self-parody anyway. Read full review

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IrradiatedNun

Oct 1, 2019

It is a rewarding end to an amazing series. It really is too bad that one pos has to ruin such a great production.

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 5

55
- Season 5 Overview
  Air Date: September 27, 2019
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  S5:E1. Musicale Finale
  Air Date: September 27, 2019
Season 4

74
- Season 4 Overview
  Air Date: September 22, 2017
Season 3

90
- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: September 23, 2016
Season 2

94
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: December 4, 2015
Season 1

92
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: September 26, 2014