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let me hear your voice tonight ([personal profile] alexseanchai) wrote2015-01-13 01:00 am

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Has anyone watched Transparent on Amazon Prime? I recall hearing about it when it premiered, and now it's back in the news because apparently people care about the Golden Globes, and I am taking a floating holiday from work today and thinking about marathoning a thing and hey look I have an Amazon Prime account. But I don't want to waste my time on a show that's not depicting us well, either. And the casting of an apparently cis man as the leading trans woman is cringey, you know? (Let's just not discuss the tone of some of the news coverage. Jeffrey Tambor stars as "a transgender man who transitions into a woman"? NO. NO THAT IS NOT HOW IT WORKS.)

And while the Wiki page is really encouraging, that doesn't actually say anything about either the quality of the show qua depiction of my people or the quality of the show qua show. So I'm hoping people whose opinions I trust have opinions on the show.

And if not, or if those opinions are universally negative, I'll just marathon Korra S1 or Sailor Moon Classic S1 or whatever. And I think I'm two episodes behind on Sailor Moon Crystal again...
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[personal profile] madgastronomer 2015-01-13 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
Everything Kate and I had heard is AWFUL.
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[personal profile] jelazakazone 2015-01-13 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
Ugh. I couldn't bring myself to try it either. I'm not glad to be vindicated here, but glad I didn't watch it.