List of Transparent episodes
Transparent is an American comedy-drama television series created by Joey Soloway for Amazon Studios that debuted on February 6, 2014.[1] The story revolves around a Los Angeles family and their lives following the discovery that the person they knew as their father Mort (Jeffrey Tambor) is a transgender woman named Maura.[2] Transparent's full first season premiered on September 26, 2014.[3] The show was renewed for a second season on October 9, 2014, which premiered on December 11, 2015.[4][5] On June 25, 2015, Amazon renewed the show for a third season consisting of ten episodes.[6] In August 2017, Amazon renewed the series for a fifth and final season, which ultimately took the form of a feature-length finale titled the Transparent Musicale Finale. It does not include Tambor due to sexual harassment allegations.[7][8][9][10]
As of September 21, 2017, 40 episodes of Transparent have been released, concluding the fourth season. A film conclusion was released on September 27, 2019.
Series overview
Series | Episodes | Originally released | |
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1 | 10 | February 6, 2014 (premiere) September 26, 2014 | |
2 | 10 | November 30, 2015 (premiere) December 11, 2015 | |
3 | 10 | September 23, 2016 | |
4 | 10 | September 21, 2017 | |
Film | September 27, 2019 | ||
Episodes
Season 1 (2014)
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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1 | 1 | "Pilot" | Joey Soloway | Joey Soloway | February 6, 2014[11] | |
Maura Pfefferman can't gather the courage to announce that she wants to become a woman. She, nevertheless, announces her retirement and intention to sell the family house. Shelly Pfefferman (Maura's ex-spouse) says that the home had been bought for $83,000 in 1972. Maura attends counseling sessions at the Los Angeles LGBT Center. | ||||||
2 | 2 | "The Letting Go" | Joey Soloway | Joey Soloway | February 13, 2014 | |
3 | 3 | "Rollin" | Joey Soloway | Bridget Bedard | February 20, 2014 | |
4 | 4 | "Moppa" | Nisha Ganatra | Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster | February 27, 2014 | |
Maura Pfefferman faces verbal harassment in the women's restroom at a shopping mall. | ||||||
5 | 5 | "Wedge" | Nisha Ganatra | Ali Liebegott | March 6, 2014 | |
6 | 6 | "The Wilderness" | Joey Soloway | Ethan Kuperberg | March 13, 2014 | |
7 | 7 | "Symbolic Exemplar" | Joey Soloway | Faith Soloway | March 20, 2014 | |
8 | 8 | "Best New Girl" | Joey Soloway | Bridget Bedard | March 27, 2014 | |
9 | 9 | "Looking Up" | Nisha Ganatra | Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster | April 3, 2014 | |
10 | 10 | "Why Do We Cover the Mirrors?" | Joey Soloway | Joey Soloway | April 10, 2014 |
Season 2 (2015)
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
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11 | 1 | "Kina Hora" | Joey Soloway | Joey Soloway | November 30, 2015 |
12 | 2 | "Flicky-Flicky Thump-Thump" | Joey Soloway | Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster | December 7, 2015 |
13 | 3 | "New World Coming" | Marielle Heller | Faith Soloway | December 14, 2015 |
14 | 4 | "Cherry Blossoms" | Joey Soloway | Arabella Anderson | December 21, 2015 |
15 | 5 | "Mee-Maw" | Stacie Passon | Our Lady J | December 28, 2015 |
16 | 6 | "Bulnerable" | Silas Howard | Bridget Bedard | January 4, 2016 |
17 | 7 | "The Book of Life" | Jim Frohna | Ethan Kuperberg | January 11, 2016 |
18 | 8 | "Oscillate" | Andrea Arnold | Bridget Bedard | January 18, 2016 |
19 | 9 | "Man on the Land" | Joey Soloway | Ali Liebegott | January 25, 2016 |
20 | 10 | "Grey Green Brown & Copper" | Andrea Arnold | Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster | February 1, 2016 |
Season 3 (2016)
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
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21 | 1 | "Elizah" | Joey Soloway | Ethan Kuperberg | September 23, 2016 |
22 | 2 | "When the Battle Is Over" | Silas Howard | Jessi Klein | September 23, 2016 |
23 | 3 | "To Sardines and Back" | Joey Soloway | Faith & Joey Soloway | September 23, 2016 |
24 | 4 | "Just the Facts" | Silas Howard | Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster | September 23, 2016 |
25 | 5 | "Oh Holy Night" | Stacie Passon | Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster | September 23, 2016 |
26 | 6 | "The Open Road" | Joey Soloway | Bridget Bedard | September 23, 2016 |
27 | 7 | "Life Sucks and Then You Die" | Shira Piven | Ali Liebegott | September 23, 2016 |
28 | 8 | "If I Were a Bell" | Andrea Arnold | Our Lady J | September 23, 2016 |
29 | 9 | "Off the Grid" | So Yong Kim | Bridget Bedard & Stephanie Kornick | September 23, 2016 |
30 | 10 | "Exciting and New" | Marta Cunningham | Faith & Joey Soloway | September 23, 2016 |
Season 4 (2017)
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
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31 | 1 | "Standing Order" | Joey Soloway | Faith Soloway | September 21, 2017 |
32 | 2 | "Groin Anomaly" | Allison Liddi-Brown | Ali Liebegott | September 21, 2017 |
33 | 3 | "Pinkwashing Machine" | Allison Liddi-Brown | Our Lady J | September 21, 2017 |
34 | 4 | "Cool Guy" | Sarah Gavron | Gabe Liedman | September 21, 2017 |
35 | 5 | "Born Again" | Marta Cunningham | Stephanie Kornick | September 21, 2017 |
36 | 6 | "I Never Promised You a Promised Land" | Jim Frohna | Bridget Bedard | September 21, 2017 |
37 | 7 | "Babar the Borrible" | Gaby Hoffmann | Ali Liebegott | September 21, 2017 |
38 | 8 | "Desert Eagle" | Andrea Arnold | Ethan Kuperberg | September 21, 2017 |
39 | 9 | "They Is on the Way" | Joey Soloway | Bridget Bedard | September 21, 2017 |
40 | 10 | "House Call" | Rhys Ernst | Ethan Kuperberg | September 21, 2017 |
Film (2019)
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
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41 | 1 | "Musicale Finale" | Joey Soloway | Faith Soloway & Joey Soloway | September 27, 2019 |
References
- "Amazon's new pilots: Which should you watch?". Entertainment Weekly. February 10, 2014. Retrieved February 12, 2014.
- "Amazon Has Finally Made Its House of Cards". Slate. February 11, 2014. Retrieved February 12, 2014.
- Prudom, Laura (July 12, 2014). "Amazon's 'Transparent' Season 1 to Debut Late September, 'Bosch' Premiering Early 2015". Variety. Retrieved July 31, 2014.
- Spangler, Todd (October 9, 2014). "Amazon Renews 'Transparent' for Season 2". Variety. Retrieved October 10, 2014.
- Travers, Ben (3 August 2015). "'Transparent' Season 2 (Finally) Lands Release Date; Jeffrey Tambor, Jill Soloway Preview a 'Year of Revolution'". Indiewire. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
- Saad, Nardine (June 25, 2015). "'Transparent' gets season 3 order from Amazon; season 2 premieres in fall". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 28, 2016.
- "'Transparent' Renewed for Season 5". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2017-08-24.
- Jeffrey Tambor Officially Dropped From 'Transparent' in Wake of Harassment Claims The Hollywood Reporter, February 15, 2018
- Lawrence, Derek (May 7, 2018). "Transparent to End with Fifth Season". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
- Schwartz, Ryan (2019-06-05). "Transparent Musicale Finale: First Trailer Teases Maura's Death, Epic Performance by Judith Light — Watch". TVLine. Retrieved 2019-06-21.
- A different version of the pilot streamed on September 26, 2014, with the rest of the season.