The first season of Prime Video's Clean Slate, starring Laverne Cox, has as much potential as series like Park & Rec did early on.

Produced by two TV legends, Norman Lear and Laverne Cox, this Black family sitcom from Prime Video brings together the former's sensibilities — as seen in classic hits like All in the Family, Maude, and Good Times — with the four-time Emmy-nominated Orange Is the New Black star's passion for trans representation,

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

Executive produced by the late Norman Lear, the new show features Cox as a trans woman who reunites with her estranged father (George Wallace).

Prime Video's Southern comedy about a gruff old gent and his trans daughter who returns home to Mobile, Ala., stars Laverne Cox and George Wallace.

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.