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Clean Slate Goes All in on Feel-Good
Laverne Cox’s sitcom protagonist doesn’t operate in our world. Honestly, good for her.
She develops cute romantic tension with Mack (Jay Wilkinson), a man who works at Harry’s car wash and happens to be a single dad to the show’s obligatory precocious moppet character, Opal (Norah Murphy). Absent the messy living-room conversations about compassion and bias that mark so many Lear sitcoms, Clean Slate becomes a little closer to a Bill Lawrence series, a single-cam comedy where everyone loves each other and all the tension comes from small, surmountable conflicts like Harry needing to eat healthier or Opal learning how to get along with kids her own age. Why not turn Harry’s Car Wash into a place of secular spiritual rebirth, and let Desiree kiss hot people, and have a sweet show set in a town where things are generally great?
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