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- Amazon Instant Video
- Sep 27, 2019
- Amazon Instant Video
- Sep 27, 2019
Summary In Jill Soloway's dark comedy Maura (Jeffrey Tambor), who previously was known as Mort Pfefferman, announces his transition to his ex-wife Shelly (Judith Light), and his three kids--Ali (Gaby Hoffmann), Josh (Jay Duplass, and Sarah (Amy Landecker).
Created By: Joey Soloway
- Amazon Instant Video
- Sep 27, 2019
- Amazon Instant Video
- Sep 27, 2019
Summary In Jill Soloway's dark comedy Maura (Jeffrey Tambor), who previously was known as Mort Pfefferman, announces his transition to his ex-wife Shelly (Judith Light), and his three kids--Ali (Gaby Hoffmann), Josh (Jay Duplass, and Sarah (Amy Landecker).
Created By: Joey Soloway
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
55
46% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
38% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
15% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
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.
[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.
It’s all over the map narratively and tonally, and fans of characters like Sarah or Josh or Shea will feel frustrated with how little they get to do in the allotted time. But what would a farewell to Transparent be if it wasn’t equal parts clever and exasperating, delightful and baffling? ... It’s a valiant, well-meaning effort.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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