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

"Clean Slate" stars Laverne Cox stars in one of the legendary Norman Lear’s final shows, which tries to balances a sense of universality with cultural specific stories.