Has there ever been a TV series as Jewish as Transparent?

Slate

“Sure,” says Isaac Butler, “other shows are about Jews, and other shows have the occasional yiddishisms thrown in, or, in Curb Your Enthusiasm’s case, build an entire subplot around getting tickets to Yom Kippur services. But Transparent, which returned last Friday for a masterful fourth season, feels like the Jewiest of them all. It feels as Jewish as a Seder Plate, or Jon Stewart’s original last name… Transparent, in other words, isn’t just Jewish because of its subject matter, or its characters, or its setting. It’s Jewish in its sensibility and concerns, even as both can prove hard to define.”

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