


It’s easy to make parallels to Breaking Bad, as the main character in both shows enters a world of crime through the side door and ultimately gets tangled up in unsavory activity for the sake of saving their family.

But after she finishes that job, she isn’t allowed to just wash her hands of it she’s now forever entangled with the crime lord and has to use her smarts to duck the FBI and get what she needs for her son. One night, she attends a late underground fight and witnesses a murder, and the only thing that saves her life is her offer to clean up the crime scene. Based on an Argentinian drama and developed by Miranda Kwok, the hourlong thriller series follows Thony De La Rosa (Élodie Yung), an undocumented Cambodian doctor-turned-cleaning lady, who takes any cleaning job she can get to save up money for her son’s autoimmune disease treatment. But FOX’s The Cleaning Lady might have the right ingredients to break through. In the current TV atmosphere where streaming is king, it has been a while since a network drama has made waves.
