Transparent Debut Smashes Prime Instant Video Records-Amazon Studios Orders Season Two
Prime Members and Critics Agree, Transparent is this Fall's Best New Show-Earns 98 percent on Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 9, 2014-- (NASDAQ:AMZN) - Amazon Original Series Transparent is already breaking records. In just over a week since its debut, the critically acclaimed dark comedy, created by Jill Soloway (Afternoon Delight, Six Feet Under) and starring Jeffrey Tambor (Arrested Development), Judith Light (Dallas), Gaby Hoffmann (Girls), Amy Landecker (Louie) and Jay Duplass (Togetherness), is the no. 1 ranked series on Prime Instant Video since the show's launch. Also proving popular among critics, the new show clocked in a near-perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes with a 98 percent critic rating, and a 91 metascore on Metacritic, making Transparent one of TV's top three highest ranked, currently airing shows. Due to the overwhelming success of the show, and the incredibly positive viewer response, Amazon Studios has greenlit a second season of Transparent, to air in 2015.
Prime members are finding it very hard to step away from all ten episodes of Transparent. Since its debut, Transparent is the most binge-watched TV series on Prime Instant Video with nearly 80 percent of all viewers bingeing on two or more episodes of the series in the same day. This makes Transparent's binge-factor higher than any of the other Prime Instant Video binge leaders in the past.
We are absolutely thrilled that the response to Transparent has been so positive, said Roy Price, Vice President of Amazon Studios. Our goal is to create series that customers love, so it's great to hear that Transparent has not only risen to the no. 1 series on Prime Instant Video, but that it's deemed binge worthy' as well. Given all this great feedback, it only makes sense to bring the Pfeffermans back next year in season two.
Since its launch, Transparent has become one of the top five most X-Ray'd series on Prime Instant Video. Gaby Hoffmann leads the charge as the most X-Ray'd Transparent actor, while other Transparent stars surfaced to the top ten most X-Ray'd actors on Prime Instant Video. Amazon X-Ray for Movies and TV is a feature within Amazon Instant Video and Prime Instant Video that allows customers to instantly access all of IMDb's knowledge, through a single tap, pulling up relevant actor or scene information as they watch. X-Ray is available exclusively on Fire tablets and Fire phone.
Written, directed and executive produced by Emmy-nominee and 2013 Sundance Best Director winner Soloway, Transparent is a 10-episode, half-hour novelistic series that explores family, identity, sex, and love. The series stars Tambor as Maura, who has spent her life as Mort-the Pfefferman family patriarch. When she reintroduces herself to her family, everyone's secrets finally start to come out. This includes her ex-wife Shelly (played by Light), and their children-meandering Ali (played by Hoffmann), record producer Josh (played by Duplass), and sexually conflicted Sarah (played by Landecker). Each family member spins in a different direction as they begin to figure out who they are going to become.
Amazon Prime members can watch Transparent now via the Amazon Instant Video app for Amazon Fire TV, Fire tablets, Fire phone, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Roku, Xbox, PlayStation, Wii, as well as on hundreds of other connected devices such as smart TVs-or customers can visit Amazon.com/Transparent to watch online.
What Prime members are saying about Transparent:
this is great TV and I believe that Transparent is the best thing I've seen so far for the 2014-15 TV Season. It will be hard to top.
The best new television program in years-the writers of this show succeed on so many levels.
I just binged watched all 10 episodes. Jeffrey Tambor is brilliant, and so is the series. I hope there will be another season!
I thought the show was very well done-the writing, the acting, the music-everything. I completely enjoyed it, and watched all the episodes straight through in two days.
Amazing show! It really shows the struggles that trans people go through daily. I'm so happy to see such an empowering show with such amazing actors and writing to go along with it.
Jill Soloway has created a drama with dark comedy, heart and intrigue. Feels so real. I want to know what happens next!
This show has heart, humor, edge and amazing work done by everyone. A leap into uncharted series waters that not only takes us into a unique experience, but also charts a path that entertains, engages, engrosses and enlightens.
What critics are saying about Transparent:
Amazon's Transparent is this year's best new show, and everyone should watch it right now. - Erin Whitney, The Huffington Post
After I saw the pilot, I called this the best show of the fall. It turns out it's the best show of the year. - James Poniewozik, TIME
Transparent is a drama/comedy series that could, in theory, make the Emmy nominations next year in either of those categories. It's that good. - David Bianculli, NPR
It's the best new TV show debuting anywhere this fall, by a long stretch. - Alan Sepinwall, Hitfix
Transparent's transcendent empathy and wry, raw realism make most of this fall season's new batch of network sitcoms seem even emptier than usual. - Matt Roush, TV Guide
Gender is a construct, sexuality is a fluid spectrum, Judaism is a vast sea, and Transparent is a real joy. The new ten-episode series, from creator Jill Soloway, may end up being responsible for putting Amazon original content on the map. - Margaret Lyons, New York Magazine
What Walter White did for Bryan Cranston, Maura Pfefferman should do for Tambor.
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Transparent Debut Smashes Prime Instant Video Records-Amazon Studios Orders Season Two 
