"Transparent" To End after 5 Seasons

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"Transparent" Ending after Season 5 Without Jeffrey Tambor, Says Creator Jill Soloway
by Matt Webb Mitovich
May 7, 2018


"Transparent‘s" first season without embattled former series lead Jeffrey Tambor will be its final one.

Jill Soloway, creator of the acclaimed Amazon series, announced the final-season news within The Hollywood Reporter‘s larger exploration of Tambor’s firing in the wake of sexual harassment claims.

“Hopefully it sets the Pfeffermans up with some sort of beautiful reclaiming,” Soloway said of the farewell run. “I think we’re going to get there with some time.”

http://tvline.com/2018/05/07/transpa...ambor-leaving/

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It Still Stings: Jeffrey Tambor's Stain on the Legacy of Transparent

For a period of time, my two favorite things to do while watching a comedy were to cry and think about my family members having sex. That wasn’t always how I approached the genre, but in 2013, on the still-burgeoning platform Amazon Prime Video, the first season of Joey Soloway’s marvelous series Transparent dropped. By forever rewriting the rules for what TV comedy could look and feel like, the show set a new standard for my own expectations of prestige TV: that culturally taboo topics around queer sexuality and gender could be broached on screen; humor and trauma could coincide and operate as siblings often do, tonally bickering and butting heads one minute and then standing proudly alongside one another the next; and, most importantly, that all of this could be done with a palpable sense of love and respect.

That’s why Transparent’s untimely dissolution from the public consciousness, epitomized by its head-scratching fizzle of a finale, was such a crushing blow to an otherwise groundbreaking show’s legacy. Over the course of five-ish seasons (more on that “ish” later…), Transparent documented the triumphs, mishaps, and awakenings of the Pfeffermans, a dysfunctional Jewish family struggling to see themselves and one another as their true selves in a perpetually hazy modern-day Los Angeles. There was so much sly humor and catharsis to be found in each of the three adult Pfefferman children’s long-delayed journeys toward maturation amid brushes with addiction and gender dysphoria, not to mention their mother Shelly’s (Judith Light) rediscovery of her own resilience toward generational trauma and patriarchal oppression.