The best things are always worth waiting for. After seven years in the making, Laverne Cox’s newest show, Clean Slate, dropped its first trailer Thursday.
In this heartfelt comedy, Cox explores family dynamics, romance, and navigating her queer identity in a red state.
The Prime Video series follows Desiree Slate (Cox), a trans woman who left Mobile, Alabama 23 years ago and didn’t look back—until now. She returns to her old neighborhood to reconnect with her dad Harry (George Wallace), an old-school carwash owner, who is more than a little surprised to see a woman standing at his front door.
Desiree gets a bit more than she bargained for on this trip when her New York City art gallery loses funding, and she returns to her childhood bedroom to crash with her dad. The home is hilariously covered in Alabama football gear (roll Tide!), and Desiree sticks out like a sore thumb in her dress and heels.
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“After being away for 23 years and, she says in the pilot, being in really dysfunctional relationships with men, she realizes that she has to go back to the source of the first unavailable man in her life, and that’s her father,” Cox tells Entertainment Weekly.
Cox captures that all-too-familiar feeling of returning to your hometown and feeling like you no longer fit. But, the trip is not all bad for Desiree. She reunites with her childhood best friend Louis (D.K. Uzoukwu), a closeted choir director, and Harry seeks advice on welcoming his daughter back home. Dad is putting in the work.
That’s not all. “We discover throughout the series that there are other reasons why she’s come back home, as well,” Cox teased to EW. Could the other reason be in the shape of Mack, the handsome hunk working at her dad’s carwash? We’ll have to stay tuned.
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Clean Slate was created by Cox, Wallace, and Dan Ewen. The great Norman Lear, who died in December 2023, served as Executive Producer, along with Ewen and Brent Miller.
All eight episodes will be released on February 5 on Amazon Prime.
Watch the full trailer below.
