![]() ![]() The musical format was never going to serve a show with such a delicate tone. ![]() The other kids, Sarah (Amy Landecker) and Josh (Jay Duplass), don’t get much in the way of story lines, though Josh’s races to a pat resolution when Kathryn Hahn’s much-missed Rabbi Raquel comes back into the picture. (A weed dealer played by Shakina Nayfack, a trans theater artist, becomes the surrogate Maura, symbolically righting the wrong of Tambor’s casting.) Dilettantish youngest child Ali (Gaby Hoffmann) is now the nonbinary Ari, an aspiring rabbi. Following a late-in-life artistic awakening, Maura’s ex Shelly (the wonderful Judith Light) channels her grief and frustrations with her family into an extremely meta musical that re-casts the Pfeffermans with doppelgängers. Directed by Soloway, from a script co-written with sister Faith Soloway, who composed the music and lyrics, the film unfolds in the aftermath of the trans parent’s offscreen death, as those who loved her celebrate her life and jazz-hands their way to unearned redemption. ![]() This upheaval explains but doesn’t excuse Transparent: Musicale Finale, the excruciating 100-minute coda that comes to Prime Video on Sept. ![]()
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