'Transparent' Creator Jill Soloway Talks Amazon, Jeffrey Tambor And Family Comedy

"You can do anything. You should do anything. This needs to be something that people feel like they have to see, so take the risks you want to take."

These are the magical words that every TV writer wants to hear, and though they may not be a direct quote, that's how Jill Soloway summed up the process of working with Amazon, which recently unleashed 10 new pilots on the world.

Soloway's pilot, "Transparent," is a bittersweet and acutely observed half-hour that introduces a Los Angeles family that is close, but maybe less close than they'd like to believe. Though the pilots take place in the same city, "Transparent," which Soloway calls a "dark comedy," couldn't be less different than Chris Carter's "The After," an Amazon pilot that is as apocalyptic as Soloway's is low-key. The good news is, there's room on the Amazon slate for such wildly different projects, along with shows like the detective drama "Bosch," the classical-music expose "Mozart in the Jungle," the sports comedy "The Rebels" and five other shows aimed at kids.

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