- Network: Amazon Instant Video , AMAZON
- Series Premiere Date: Sep 26, 2014
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A self-indulgent experiment egregious even for the most self-indulgent characters on television, Musicale Finale feels hastily composed, a tacked-on coda from a visionary who has already moved onto brighter horizons, such as the underrated I Love Dick. Truthfully, few of the actors seem prepared for their big numbers.
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There is a lot about it that doesn’t quite work, specifically pretty much the entire first half of it. But the fact that it doesn’t all work is part of what makes this an appropriate farewell. The Musicale Finale takes what can be frustrating about Transparent and what’s also so sublime and lovely about it, then distills all of that into a single song-and-dance-filled curtain call.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 13
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Mixed: 2 out of 13
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Negative: 5 out of 13
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Oct 1, 2019It is a rewarding end to an amazing series. It really is too bad that one pos has to ruin such a great production.