Norman Lear-produced comedy starring Laverne Cox, about an estranged father and daughter in Alabama, comes at an awkward political moment.

It’s been over a decade since Time magazine declared the so-called “transgender tipping point” with a photo of Laverne Cox on its May 2014 cover. At the time, Cox was a year into her tenure as Sophia Burset on the Netflix dramedy Orange is the New Black,

Maybe we understand that before she does since this homecoming tale starts with Harry processing the realization that the child he believed to be his son was, in fact, always his daughter. Other comedies might make this an ongoing refrain.

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In Prime Video's "Clean Slate," Laverne Cox ptorrays Desiree, a woman who returns home to her father after being estranged for 23 years.

The actors spoke about their new Prime Video comedy series that features Cox as a transgender woman returning home to Alabama to live with her father, played by Wallace.

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