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NinjaFridge
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Watched the first 4 episodes and I just can't get into this show. I don't know what it is but it just isn't 'clicking' with me.
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Transparent |OT| Be Seen. Amazon's Emmy Award Winning series - S4 available now
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Femmeworth
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Just finished it up. Wasn't until episode six or so that the show really started to hook me. I'm not sure how I feel about it overall. Can't say the beginning of the season was all that great and some of the stuff in the finale felt unnecessary.
Edit: Should have done some more research, since there were trans people that worked on the show.
That explains some things. As a young trans person I can't really connect with the show all that much, and I chalked it up to it being aimed at older trans women.
Edit: Should have done some more research, since there were trans people that worked on the show.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
Amazon has renewed the show for a third season.
Gordon Shumway
Banned
Third season? Is there a second one that I missed?
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
The second season doesn't premiere until this fall.
Gordon Shumway
Banned
Oh ok. Damn. That's a pretty early announcement for a third season lol..
They did it now so that they would enter into the news cycle during the final days of Emmy voting.
(I mean, they were probably gonna do it anyway, and Soloway's deal has probably been in place for a little while, but that explains the timing.)
Same. But people rave about it so I'll power through the first season.
QueenOfThorns
Member
I feel very hesitant to watch this show. Is the transgender character played by a transgender woman?
No. A lot of the show is flashbacks before Maura (the main character) was out as trans, dealing with her family life when she was living as a man. I get why, in this instance, a cis actor played this character.
But Jeffrey Tambor is fantastic.
QueenOfThorns
Member
Ah. Yeah. I'm sure it's fine, but I just can't watch it then.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
Season two doesn't premiere until December 4th. :/
Gordon Shumway
Banned
Really? Damn..that's a ways away.
Just rewatched S1. Fantastic except I'm still not on board with what happened In episode 9 as it puts the family in a pretty terrible light. Also did Ed die cuz of them? It shows him walking out, or was that as like him escaping or what?
Also do we know if Kathryn Hahn is returning for S2? She's amazing.
Also do we know if Kathryn Hahn is returning for S2? She's amazing.
RastaMentality
Banned
Seeing really great things about the first episode. I need Amazon to ramp up the advertising though.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
Season 2 starts tomorrow - someone make a new OT!
I thought it was Dec 11th now? That's the date I've been seeing more recently.
edit: yeah it's the 11th now
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
Oh. That's lame :/
Cornballer
Member
I updated the thread title since S2 is out now. If anyone would like to make a new thread, please do and let me know so I can lock this one. Otherwise, we can just stay in this one.
internetwolf
Banned
Watched the first 3 loving season 2 so far. More than season one tbh
Love this show, so glad it's back. I just wish it was longer! Ten, half hour episodes isn't enough.
I think I love it so much because it's not afraid to show how shit life is via the selfishness and loneliness of humans, which is exactly why I loved Six Feet Under.
I've only watched two Eps so far of season two. I'm trying really hard not to binge watch them so it lasts longer.
I think I love it so much because it's not afraid to show how shit life is via the selfishness and loneliness of humans, which is exactly why I loved Six Feet Under.
I've only watched two Eps so far of season two. I'm trying really hard not to binge watch them so it lasts longer.
RastaMentality
Banned
Wow, the opening long, fixed shot and the closing tracking shot. Really great stuff.
Yeah that end shot sure was something. Only thing I dislike about this show is that it's treated like a comedy in show-length (30 minute episodes), but I feel like it would be better with 60 minute episodes like a drama. I just want more.
The end credits for episode one said that
appeared. Umm, when? I didn't notice that at all.
These characters certainly didn't forget how to be terribly flawed and often awful self-centered jerks in the intervening months.
Edit: Oh man, Tambor in the opening scene to episode three. Hilarious.
Bradley Whitford
These characters certainly didn't forget how to be terribly flawed and often awful self-centered jerks in the intervening months.
Edit: Oh man, Tambor in the opening scene to episode three. Hilarious.
lol, my husband and I were talking about this earlier too. We were both saying that it's one of the heaviest dramas that we watch, period. There's like little teensy tiny bits of humor in there but it's typically more of a black comedy feel anyways.
3 episodes into S2 and I'm just not feeling it (yet?). Somehow all the drama seems manufactured. It's like "here is the setup for whatever is about to go wrong/tick people off" and later that episode it will eventually happen.
Taking a break for now and will watch more the next few days, but for now season 2 is not scratching that itch that s1 did...
Taking a break for now and will watch more the next few days, but for now season 2 is not scratching that itch that s1 did...
grounded_dreams
Member
Totally does. Thanks man!
I just finished this season. I thought it was really great. One of my biggest complaints is that I really wish they would have explored the
story a bit more. I get that its purpose was to show
And it really seems like that is what that entire subplot is leading up to throughout the whole season for the finale.
Berlin
Rose's history with gender and imply that Rose totally accepted Maura, but we don't actually get any pay off of that moment in the show.
TanookiTom
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I just hate Amazon for waiting until January for no fucking reason before releasing this in Germany :-/ Made me get Amazon Prime a couple a days ago because I thought this would be perfect to watch for my Christmas travel plans... oh well.
I'm watching it on German Amazon. You just have to go with the OV/OmU version until the German dub is released in January.
TanookiTom
Member
That's what I wanted to watch - screw the German dub. But the app just doesn't show anything except the 1st season...?
Edit: Amazon ist just making it hard to find. I kept checking the 1st season Icon, but the second season is not showing in there. So I had to search for "Transparent season 2" and then it showed... Thanks a lot, you saved my Christmas! Together with the new option to download stuff in the app this is gonna be the best trip home ever ;-)
Weird season overall. That last thing with Josh in the finale didn't ring true to me at all. For that matter, not sure at all about Sarah's finale stuff either. I think much like the first season, it's the Moira-centric things that work best and are least frustrating.
Melora Hardin had so many looks this season that would make amazing reaction gifs for when posters say stupid shit.
Melora Hardin had so many looks this season that would make amazing reaction gifs for when posters say stupid shit.
I think that throughline got deflated and damaged by being so closely juxtaposed with Ali's vague pseudo-intellectual musings while desperately fumbling for a direction of study. I don't think it helps that her whole character along with her function in the show is kind of a mess.
Yeah, I actually totally forgot about that until you mentioned it. I didn't really know what was trying to be done with it. It seems that whole "feeling" she kept getting about the family having some rift was totally from nowhere. And then she kept talking about it to that professor as if it could be some big academic project despite her knowing literally nothing about what it was. Hell, it could have just been that people didn't get along and that was it.
And then add onto that there was no more said about that storyline in relation to Ali. It just kinda tied that whole storyline up in all of its forms with that final scene that had no words, and it didn't really actually conclude any of the individual storylines about it.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
Great first episode. I'm so glad Sarah ditched that douchey woman she was (going to get officially) married to.
Also, was that Miranda Sings performing at the wedding reception?
Also also, what was up with that Berlin 1933 flashback?
Also, was that Miranda Sings performing at the wedding reception?
Also also, what was up with that Berlin 1933 flashback?
It'll become clearer.
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