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Well, sort of.
The result is theTransparent Musicale Finale, a 100-minute attempt to make lemonade out of lemons.
But the fact that it doesnt all work is part of what makes this an appropriate farewell.
Under daunting and difficult circumstances, the show deserves credit for refusing to go quietly into that good night.
Funeral plans start being made.
Songs about feelings start being sung.
The finale fares much, much better once it turns its attention more directly toward grief and death.
In that scene, things snap into clear focus: of course the last episode ofTransparentshould be a musical.
In the Jewish faith, every prayer is a song.
The reactions from the actors, especially a sobbing Hoffmann, speak to the transcendence of that moment.
(Soloway is nonbinary and identifies using third-person pronouns.)
It teeters the whole time, but never fully falls on either side.
