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

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

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.