Prime's new series about an estranged father and daughter in Alabama, starring Laverne Cox and Henry Wallace, is a flawed but sweet comedy in an awkward political moment

Clean Slate” has Cox as Desiree Slate, who returns to her Alabama birthplace after a decades-long absence to confront her carwash operator father Harry Slate (George Wallace) with her gender

Norman Lear was a force of nature in television. His progressive, boundary-breaking comedies—like All in the Family, Sanford and Son, Maude, and One Day at a Time—were never afraid to embrace contemporary issues head-on.

Norman Lear is credited as an executive producer on the single-cam series about a trans woman reuniting with her father in their Alabama hometown.