"The series follows Desiree (Cox), who’s returning to her small town in Alabama to reunite with her father Harry (Wallace) after 23 years away.
"[1] The series was originally announced by Peacock in January 2020 with Laverne Cox and George Wallace starring in leading roles.
Uzoukwu, Telma Hopkins, Jay Wilkison and Norah Murphy joined the cast as series regulars alongside Cox and Wallace.
"[1] After noting the cultural relevance of a show about trans people "debuting at a moment when the current presidential administration is aggressively stripping trans people of their rights,"[9] Alan Sepinwall of Rolling Stone described the show as "content to be a simple, relatively old-fashioned family and friends comedy.
"[11] In a less positive review, Daniel Feinberg described the series in The Hollywood Reporter as "more of a fantasy of societal understanding than an issue-oriented comedy, very rarely producing laughs but very frequently generating reasonably earned warm-fuzzies.