Big changes are in store for “Transparent” when it returns to Amazon for its fifth and final season next year.
As previously announced, Jeffrey Tambor, who starred as the transgender head of the Pfefferman family, was fired in February following sexual harassment allegations by a crewmember and an actress on the show. The Jewish family saga will continue without the Emmy-winning star in fall 2019 and will end with a two-hour musical episode.
“It will hopefully feel like ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ mixed with ‘La La Land’ mixed with ‘Flight of the Conchords’ with something more Jewish thrown in,” series creator Jill Soloway told the New York Times. “A little ‘Yentl.’”
Soloway is collaborating with her sister, Faith, and actress Shakina Nayfack on the music, and the Times printed a sample lyric:
“How do I say this delicately? We all have closet Jewish ADHD, plus there’s guilt and shame…We need to sit in it, sit in all of it. So many feelings that you have to unpack…All this karma sitting square on your back. But here is the bottom line. You need to give it time.”
