Fox has ordered a second season of the primetime drama The Cleaning Lady starring Élodie Yung. The network announced the renewal order following season one’s ranking among the top five new broadcast dramas of 2021-2022.
The 100‘s Miranda Kwok developed the series and serves as a writer and executive producer. Shay Mitchell, David Dean Portelli, Rose Marie Vega, Paola Suarez, and showrunner Melissa Carter also executive produce.
“This heart-pounding, emotionally driven story has captivated audiences across all platforms with its empowering, suspenseful narrative about an undocumented worker forced to navigate the criminal underworld to save her ailing son’s life,” said Michael Thorn, President, Entertainment, FOX Entertainment. “The Cleaning Lady bravely and unapologetically takes on many of today’s most important social issues — something we’re proud to say is one of FOX’s long-time calling cards — and it’s all brought into sharp perspective by the powerful performance of our lead, Élodie Yung, and the entire cast.
Thanks to the incredible talent of Miranda and Melissa and our outstanding partners at Warner Bros., audiences have embraced this story and can now look forward to finding out what comes next for this devoted mother and her son when our show returns for its second season.”
In addition to Élodie Yung, season one stars Adan Canto, Ivan Shaw, Martha Millan, Oliver Hudson, Faith Bryant, and Sean Lew.
The Cleaning Lady is based on the Argentine series La chica que limpia and produced by Warner Bros. Television and FOX Entertainment.
The Season 1 Plot, Courtesy of Fox:
The Cleaning Lady is an emotionally driven character drama about a whip-smart Cambodian doctor, THONY, (Yung) who comes to the U.S. for a medical treatment to save her ailing son, LUCA (Valentino and Sebastien LaSalle). With her son diagnosed with a life-threatening immunodeficiency disorder and her husband, MARCO (Shaw), struggling with a gambling addiction and unable to get a visa, Thony is left to save the boy on her own. Whereas she once had it all – a successful career as a doctor, handsome husband and family, Thony is now in Las Vegas with her sister-in-law, FIONA (Millan), waiting for a matching bone marrow donor for Luca, while struggling to make ends meet as an undocumented worker.
However, when the system fails and pushes her into hiding, she refuses to be beaten down and marginalized. Instead, through an unexpected run-in with a lieutenant of a powerful crime syndicate, ARMAN MORALES (Canto), she becomes a cleaning lady for their operation. Crossing into a world of moral greys, Thony begins to live a double life, keeping secrets from her family, while cleaning crime scenes for Arman and dodging the law, including the smooth-talking FBI Agent GARRETT MILLER (Hudson), who is in pursuit. Using her cunning and intelligence to forge her own path in the criminal underworld, Thony does what is necessary to save Luca – even if it means sacrificing her own soul in the process.
