“The Cleaning Lady” feels like disparate parts of other series. It certainly feels like a Fox series, with its flashy editing, gritty storyline, and adoration of clubs and opulence. It also feels like numerous other “woeful immigrant” stories about the undocumented having to get into crime in order to find freedom. It’s an overused cliche, so much so that in 2018 a study by the Cato Institute and the Marshall Project showed that over one-third of TV shows situated undocumented people in the criminal lifestyle. It’s a shame because Elodie Yung, making her debut as a TV series lead, is way too good for it.
Yung plays Thony De La Rosa, an undocumented Cambodian immigrant to the U.S. trying to raise her young son. When she witnesses a crime, the only means of looking indispensable is by offering to clean up the corpse and its aftermath. The man doing the murdering,...
Yung plays Thony De La Rosa, an undocumented Cambodian immigrant to the U.S. trying to raise her young son. When she witnesses a crime, the only means of looking indispensable is by offering to clean up the corpse and its aftermath. The man doing the murdering,...
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