Transparent
Season 1
10 listed hours · 2014–2019 · Amazon
From the desk
How this season is filed
L.A. siblings orbit parent Maura's late-life transition and their own unfinished selves. Jill Soloway's Amazon series was the streamer's first prestige statement: messy Jewish family comedy-drama, historic trans creativity, early Emmys. Tambor's exit amid misconduct allegations forced a finale film instead of a planned close. Landmark intimacy — watch knowing the production history complicates the ending.
TV Flash files Season 1 of Transparent (2014–2019) on Amazon as the first listed season of 4 — 10 listed hours, 2014-09-26 from “Pilot” (S01E01) to “Why Do We Cover the Mirrors?” (S01E10). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S01E01 Pilot
The pilot is Amazon's first prestige statement: Soloway, late-life transition, messy Jewish family comedy-drama, historic trans creativity.
- S01E10 Why Do We Cover the Mirrors?
Why Do We Cover the Mirrors? uses mourning custom as craft — family comedy refusing polish on a ritual question.
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S01E01 Pilot
An LA family with serious boundary issues have their past and future unravel when a dramatic admission causes everyone's secrets to spill out.
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S01E02 The Letting Go
Maura embraces her new journey, but nothing about life as a woman is easy -- making friends, finding a new community, and above all, coming out to her children. Sarah introduces her husband (Rob Huebel) to her ex-girlfriend Tammy (Melora Hardin). Josh pays a visit to his ex-babysitter Rita, as Ali gets closer to her trainer.
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S01E03 Rollin'
Maura moves out of the family house and into a lively new apartment complex, just as Sarah needs a new home after dismantling her perfect life. Josh has to reconsider his sudden vision of starting a family, while Ali finds some new boundaries to cross.
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S01E04 Moppa
Maura finally comes out to Ali, and they join Sarah on a field trip to the mall - where they all get rude lessons in womanhood. Josh is forced to confront his past thanks to questions from Syd (Carrie Brownstein) about his longtime relationship with Rita.
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S01E05 Wedge
When Shelly's husband Ed goes missing, Sarah, Josh and Ali set out to find him, and instead find themselves lost in their past. Ali can no longer keep Maura's secret from Josh, which sends him into a tailspin. When Maura runs into a Pfefferman family friend she takes a stand for her new identity.
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S01E06 The Wilderness
As they struggle to come to terms with Maura, Josh looks for answers from a rabbi named Raquel (Kathryn Hahn), and Ali looks for answers in a Gender Studies class with Syd. Sarah is left to answer questions from her own kids, who meet Maura for the first time.
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S01E07 The Symbolic Exemplar
Josh goes on a date with Rabbi Raquel while Ali explores her feminine side with a TA from Gender Studies class. The kids turn out for Maura's performance in a talent show, but her delight quickly turns to dejection.
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S01E08 Best New Girl
In a flashback, Mort escapes with friend Mark (Bradley Whitford) to a cross-dressing retreat in the woods, and becomes captivated with a very accepting woman named Connie (Michaela Watkins). Left alone after cancelling her Bat Mitzvah, 13-year-old Ali finds trouble with an older man at the beach.
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S01E09 Looking Up
Maura finds solace with ex-wife Shelly, and the two hatch a plot to help Ed realize his wishes. Sarah spends time with her ex-husband and begins to question their breakup, while Raquel finally breaks through to Josh. And when the entire family is summoned to Shelly's, they are in for a few surprises.
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S01E10 Why Do We Cover the Mirrors?
A funeral brings all the Pfeffermans together and reunites them with their past - Shelley and Maura with old friends, Sarah with her ex, and Josh with his teenage babysitter - who brings a 17-year-old boy. Just when they thought there were no more secrets, the family busts out a few more.
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