--- description: The critically beloved series will return in 2015 title: Amazon Renews 'Transparent' For a Second Season image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltddf41574fed5beb8/69875f5906f2c136f633131c/ap137739334573.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Amazon Renews _Transparent_ For a Second Season  by [Daniel D'Addario](/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 9, 2014 2:25 PM CUT  From left, Gaby Hoffmann, Jeffrey Tambor, and Jill Soloway speak onstage during the "Transparent" panel at the Amazon 2014 Summer TCA on Saturday, July 12, 2014, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP) From left, Gaby Hoffmann, Jeffrey Tambor, and Jill Soloway speak onstage during the "Transparent" panel at the Amazon 2014 Summer TCA on Saturday, July 12, 2014, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)Richard Shotwell—Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP  by [Daniel D'Addario](/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 9, 2014 2:25 PM CUT The Pfeffermans’ adventures will continue. Citing critical acclaim as well as proprietary data indicating heavy “binge-watching,” Amazon has announced its renewal of its series _Transparent_. Created by _Six Feet Under_ producer Jill Soloway, the show stars Jeffrey Tambor as Maura, a trans woman who has lived much of her life as the patriarch of a complicated family. _Transparent_ has proved the same sort of critical breakout hit for Amazon Prime’s streaming service that _Orange is the New Black_ and _House of Cards_ were for Netflix in 2013, potentially auguring a future of more compelling original series for the service. As TIME’s [James Poniewozik wrote](http://time.com/3256184/transparent-amazon-best-fall-tv/ "undefined"): “\[T\]he fact that platforms like Amazon now exist to give shows like this a chance says that not only Maura Pfefferman, but the TV business itself, is going through an exciting transformation.” And Amazon has more than critical praise to be happy about: While streaming series aren’t subject to the same sort of universally-agreed-upon and independently audited ratings as broadcast series, Amazon claims that “nearly 80 percent of all viewers” watch two or more episodes of the series per day. Amazon collecting and publicizing data about how quickly audiences view the next episode is cause enough to believe that future Amazon series will be as compulsively watchable as is _Transparent_ — and that’s hardly a bad thing. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3484592/transparent-season-2-jill-soloway/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3484592/transparent-season-2-jill-soloway/"},"headline":"Amazon Renews Transparent For a Second Season","datePublished":"2014-10-09T14:25:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:41:11.411Z","description":"The critically beloved series will return in 2015","url":"https://time.com/3484592/transparent-season-2-jill-soloway/","keywords":["Television","Amazon","transparent"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltddf41574fed5beb8/69875f5906f2c136f633131c/ap137739334573.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel D'Addario","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltddf41574fed5beb8/69875f5906f2c136f633131c/ap137739334573.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Gaby Hoffmann, Jeffrey Tambor, Jill Soloway","caption":"Gaby Hoffmann, Jeffrey Tambor, Jill Soloway","creditText":"Richard Shotwell—Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3484592/transparent-season-2-jill-soloway/","name":"Amazon Renews Transparent For a Second Season"}}]}] ```