Transparent Season 2: What's Next for the Pfeffermans?

The Pfefferman family is back and more dysfunctional than ever in Season 2 of Transparent, which will be released on Amazon Prime on Friday.

[...] they sort of stand there mute, trying to figure out what to do, or abandon people.

Ali (Gaby Hoffmann), Josh (Jay Duplass) and Sarah (Amy Landecker) -- are on their own messy journeys of self-discovery in Season 2, grappling with questions about religion, parenthood and sexual identity.

Maura chastises all of her children for abandoning her at important moments during her transition, while taking her for granted during their own times of need.

[...] she just has to make real relationships and try to be a good person.

Adds Tambor: The coming out and the waking up, as it were, is a big load off, and I don't think she knows what's in store for her in terms of how to live this.

It's just like, 'Alright, look, Shelly loves me and she wants me to live there.

[...] I can just kind of go back in time and go back and re-experience the past, but as myself.'

Ali rejects Syd's (Carrie Brownstein) advances and has a blowout fight with Maura over the fact that she never had a bat mitzvah.

She's come out of a place last season where she was sort of depressed and shut down for many years, and sort of kicked herself out of that.

Along the way, she decides to try out a romantic relationship with Syd, and also becomes enthralled with a lesbian intellectual named Leslie (Cherry Jones), a radical feminist who butted heads with Maura when she was still going by Mort.

Sarah has a poorly timed panic attack during her wedding to Tammy and subsequently goes on what some might call a sexual walkabout that leads her straight into the world of BDSM.

Sarah wants to give up -- her whole story line this year is to be submissive, to want someone else to make the decisions.

What I learned talking to people in that [BDSM] community is that you're actually safer than you've ever been because you