Must See TV: Transparent

This  Last week on Mom.me, I wrote about Transparent which is my favorite show on television right now even though it isn't even officially on television. (It's on Amazon. GO, AMAZON!)

If you are not familiar with the show, it's about a man woman who at 70 years old, comes out to her children that she is a woman. Jeffrey Tambor plays Maura, the patriarch matriarch of the family while her ex-wife and three children, all who are dealing with transitional periods in their own lives, rally around her as she begins her new life as the woman she was born to be.

The show is created by Jill Soloway whose own father came out late in life as a woman. 

“No wonder I was so obsessed with these questions,” she said on a Sunday morning in July, sitting at the same table where she took the call. “Not even deep down. I think out in front these gender questions were part of our family — the discomfort with traditional roles of masculinity and femininity in our house.”

Soloway also wrote/directed Afternoon Delight which I loved...

There is a line in the show, several episodes deep, where a character that isn’t central to the show says something like, “we’re all just a bunch of bodies,” and that, right there, is the takeaway. Sexual identity is nuanced and complicated and we’re all coloring outside the lines a little bit and Transparent is about a family of humans who, as their father transitions from a man to a woman, must recognize their own transitions as well. And that it’s OKAY to be a human body, whatever that means to you...

You can read more, here. I'd love to hear what you guys are watching, too. SO much amazing television right now... 

GGC