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Evaluation: ‘Clear Slate’ is a candy, new old school household comedy
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Evaluation: ‘Clear Slate’ is a candy, new old school household comedy

Last updated: February 6, 2025 4:50 am
Editorial Board Published February 6, 2025
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Given the state of issues, it feels good to have a trans individual taking part in a trans character in a household comedy on our most consumed medium. No matter else you may say about tv, it does are likely to maintain transferring, nonetheless fitfully, into the sunshine.

“Clean Slate,” streaming from Prime Video starting Thursday, stars Laverne Cox as Desiree Slate, getting back from New York to Cell, Ala., after 23 silent years to anxiously reunite together with her father, Harry, performed by George Wallace. When final they met, Desiree was Desmond.

In line with Wallace, he had approached the late Norman Lear, an government producer on “Clean Slate,” about the potential of rebooting “Sanford and Son,” and within the fullness of time it introduced forth this sequence, which has similarities primarily in that it considerations a cantankerous oldster dwelling in shut quarters together with his in a different way tempered offspring and is ready (largely) amongst Black individuals in a Black neighborhood.

The primary episode opens with a quote from Lear — “The laughter I’ve enjoyed most is laughter that has brought numbers of us together” — and the present is actually candy, and infrequently corny, and generally a little bit clunky, as if we’re watching characters in a play placed on a play; they learn as “characters,” assembled to a function, organized in a plan. So there’s a neighbor for Harry to argue with (Phillip Garcia as Miguel); ex-con Mack (Jay Wilkison), who works for him at his automobile wash and has a precocious grade-school daughter, Opal (Norah Murphy), planning to run the world, or no less than one thing massive and vital; a buddy for Desiree, Louis (D.Ok. Uzoukwu), who leads the church choir and imagines no person is aware of he’s homosexual; and Louis’ mom, Ella (Telma Hopkins), the present’s most settled individual.

George Wallace co-stars as Henry, Desiree’s father, in “Clean Slate.”

(Prime Video)

As to the trans theme, “Clean Slate” takes its foot off that pedal pretty rapidly, and settles into its groove as a generation-gap, culture-clash comedy a couple of father who likes his dangerous habits and a daughter who needs to enhance him, set inside a bigger comedy of Southern manners. (Cox is from Cell, Wallace is from Atlanta, and their co-creator Dan Ewen is from Athens, Ga.) After a really transient preliminary shock, there may be nary a second when Harry doesn’t settle for Desiree for who she is, although it can take him a short time to recollect to name her Desiree, and he’ll sometimes use an improper pronoun; cash goes in a “pronoun jar” when he does.

In any case, these slips aren’t introduced as an ethical failing. If something, it’s Desiree who comes off, no less than to start out, because the extra judgmental individual, arriving armed with matcha, mugwort and an agenda from her therapist — to interrupt a sample of unavailable males in her romantic life by confronting “the first emotionally unavailable man in my life.” (“Who the hell is he?” cries Harry, lacking some extent. “Does he live around here? Do we need to go pay him a visit?”) Among the many townsfolk, solely the preacher has an issue with Desiree. Most everybody else is supportive, even celebratory; the neighborhood exhibits up. And Mack needs so far her.

Sitcom conditions abound: Harry educating Desiree how you can drive. Desiree promoting Harry’s issues at a yard sale, a lot to his displeasure. There’s a visit to an amusement park to regulate Opal’s work-life stability, and a visit to a dance membership for Desiree and Louis. Desiree needs to be re-baptized as Desiree — however, oh, that preacher. An episode set on voting day is unusual to observe, given the world we’re dwelling in. “Today is Nov. 7, not Jan. 6,” Harry says to Miguel, in line behind him. “I’m not a traitor,” Miguel protests. “I’m a libertarian.”) However the theme is extra disorganization than democracy. Characters quarrel with a purpose to reconcile.

I can’t make any nice claims for the present as something greater than a fairly respectable newfangled old school comedy, however there’s nothing improper with that. Each Wallace and Cox are imposing individuals; they match properly. He’s clearly having enjoyable in his not-Redd Foxx function; she’s good sassy, sultry, but additionally delicate firm. And although I’m 100% supportive of the battle to convey manufacturing again to Hollywood, the Southern areas (the sequence filmed close to Savannah, Ga., solely 496 miles from Cell) do correctly help the storytelling.

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