Critics are applauding Transparent, the new 10-episode series that's putting Amazon Prime in the spotlight. Multiple reviews call the show, which tells the story of a family whose patriarch has begun living as a woman, "transcendent": It's touching, believable, and extremely funny. Among the comments:
- "Start hitting up your friends for that Amazon password now," writes Willa Paskin at Slate. "To call (Transparent) Amazon’s first great series, or the only great series of the new fall season—both of which are true—is to damn it with faint praise." Members of the show's Pfefferman family "are all so recognizably human, that despite their idiosyncrasies—or rather, because of them—they have the feel of archetypes, characters that dozens of other characters from here on out will be like."