Transparent

In a remarkable feat of electronic wizardry, I streamed movies from my computer onto my t.v.!  I was so impressed with myself.  All it took was one cable, but still...  I had the cable and I hooked it up - so kudos to me! 

I have a trial membership in an on-line service with an enormous selection of movie and t.v. series available, but to quote The Boss, "57 channels and nothing on" holds true.  After much scrolling I came across a trailer for "Transparent," a series I'd been hearing about and decided to give a try.

Result: 10 episodes (the entire first season) in an epic binge t.v. session.  The IMBD description, "An LA family with serious boundary issues," was a major understatement.  The story develops as a 60ish professor comes to terms with being trans gender and coming out to his adult children.  It's complicated and it was fascinating to watch and think about gender definitions and just to empathize. Maura's kids are wild, highly charged sexual beings, whose behaviors kinda scared me, (Do people act like that?  I don't live in LA.) Pretty powerful stuff.  There was much humor although I'm not sure if it was intended as such in some cases.  Watch if you get a chance.


I was bragging on my electronic prowess to a man I work with and mentioned watching this series.  He wasn't familiar with it so I gave his a brief description.  This was an act of devilment on my part as this guy is a self-proclaimed red neck, (my mother always said I was an agitator.)  To my delight, he did rile. After some conversation:

"Do you think these people are for real, Stephanie?"

"Seems likely to me that trans-gender people have got to be so far beyond tormented to come out and almost surely become social pariahs to most of the world.  No one would choose that.  Nature makes mistakes."
 
End of that discussion.


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