It's nice to see Norman Lear's name prominently displayed in the credits as this 2025 comedy series represents his last effort as an executive producer. His influence is clear from the show's focus on the LGBTQIA+ community in the relatively unexplored rural setting of Mobile, Alabama. The comedy, however, is not nearly as bracing or risk-taking as the best of Lear's ahead-of-their time sitcoms, even though punchlines are delivered in a constantly overemphatic fashion. Laverne Cox plays Desiree Slate, a transsexual woman who upon losing her art gallery in New York, decides to go back to her hometown and reunite with Harry, her car wash-owning father. Of course there are conflicts over the eight-episode arc, but it's primarily of the more predictable, heartwarming variety. It helps that veteran comic George Wallace plays Harry with his trademark sass intact and some hilarious throwaway lines. The cast is definitely game, but there just isn't much subtlety or complexity in any of the roles or the way the actors approach the roles. Perhaps that will evolve if there's a Season 2.
