Families are complex, which gives a lot of fodder to attract TV writers. But what if the results are neither high bets nor funny, so hot and pleasant? Ok, what you can get these days, when the definition of “comedy” has become so wide that “light drama” means Amazon’s “clean slate”, which stars Lavarn Cox and George Walece. .
Cox has played the role of Desari, a native of Mobile, Alabama, who returns home in New York. He has been decades since coming back, and now he is at his father’s door who is looking for a soft place. The only grip is that he has not spoken to Dad (Valese) at this time, and he does not know that he is a transgender. But he quickly acclimates and they work for the reconstruction of their relationship because Desri creates a new life for himself.
Keeping in mind the rapid and hazardous threats directed by the Trans community in the first weeks of the new President administration, “Clean Slate” comes as an elegant and defective pushback: a show made around a talented black trans actress Whose charisma is enough to see.
If only a slightly more comic bites in the series were. Sometimes a line will land. “It is like black for the future,” Desri says about his father’s house, which has been unchanged in 23 years. When she provides her a chia seed pudding for breakfast, she tells her, “Chia’s seeds need to make their mind: yes either a pudding or pet, but you cannot be both.”
But their first battle is surrounded by mutual resentment, depth or lack of much emotion. It is very perfectory, very muted, too GoodAs such the scene was a placeholder for some later written. Just because the show is fundamentally gentle and does not mean that it cannot take those types of risks.
Instead, it dwells sweet and touching. Cox (who is from mobile itself), co-built by Wallace and Dan Even, is another name that stands out. Norman Lear, who died in 2023, is credited as an executive producer, and if he became famous for his desire to deal with his most popular show – and then clearly obliquely – retrograde ideas, ” Clean slate “go aim for something very safe.
The small corner of the show’s mobile consists of a Reiki Single Father that works in a car wash (J Wilkison) and has considerable chemistry and sexual stress between him and Desri. He has an inadvertent smart preterm daughter (Nora Murphy), who has befriends Desri. Desri’s best friends in the city, director of song players, who are in the cell (DK Uzuku), and their loyal mother (Telma Hopkins), who is also a long history with Desari’s father. Together, they form a type of family around each other and rally.
I am not sure that the chain is the benefit of the series from Camos by Lakshmi and Nene Leak; The dress is quite good that it does not require those types of stunts. Episodes are centered around a loose theme, but they are mainly about people who are just living their lives. I think this is the right choice, and the way I appreciate the “Clean Slate”, he deal with the complex feelings of the desry where he is about the desire to return to the church, where he grew up, its growth Despite the priest on a large scale. He can be the only person who does not accept Desri with open arms, and if he feels ideal, who cares? When his character should be subjected to hatred to tell another story?
“Clean Slate” – 2.5 Stars (Out of 4)
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