The Cleaning Lady Season 2 Episode 7 Review: Truth or Consequences
The Cleaning Lady Season 2 Episode 7, “Truth or Consequences,” opens up several new problems for Thony and Arman and leaves me finally feeling bad for Garrett for once.
Though it helps move things along, far too much happens on this episode.
To start, Arman is no longer the man we first met in season one of The Cleaning Lady, and I’m not sure that’s a good thing. Though it should be obvious, he’s dealt with incredibly difficult decisions lately that definitely have altered the way he sees things.
The issue here is that Arman still believes that even with his mistakes, his misgivings, and his relationship with Thony, he still gets to play a part in Nadia’s life.
He’s often rude to her, and recently he’s been dismissive of almost everything she says, especially things she plans to explore independently.
We haven’t gotten a chance to see Arman grow as he should have, even if he’s admitted things to Thony he hasn’t said out loud otherwise.
At the top of the leaderboard for being rude, however, still stands Garrett.
Garrett is unfairly demanding of Thony, and sometimes Arman, because of a mistake he made where he was kicked off of a case.
Arman killed Maya, and he’ll have to live with that for the rest of his life. But had the FBI, you know, Garrett’s organization, kept her in an actual safe house, then she wouldn’t have been found and taken.
Arman and Thony meet new buyers, which is something we could have done next episode instead of sandwiching it between everything else, and Arman almost beats Garrett to a pulp.
I think we should have let him.
Elsewhere, because clearly, we haven’t had enough already, Chris confesses to a literal FBI agent that he killed Marcos.
Were that agent anyone but Garrett, I wouldn’t think twice. But it was Garrett. And now Maya is dead at Arman’s hand, which means Garrett’s streak of good graces has run out and the next several episodes are going to be chaos.
It is completely understandable that an officer would pull Chris and Thony in for speaking after Chris left the station, but to position that in the middle of everything else that happened this episode, it feels like they’re making sure they get everything in before the end of the season.
We spent several episodes in early season two where we were building and building and building, and now we’re here, and everything has fallen down within one episode.
Placing everything in one episode also does a disservice to the characters, as Chris deserved to properly react and sit with that, and Nadia deserved more time to simply exist without the presence of a man who doesn’t appreciate her as she should.
Overall, while “Truth or Consequences,” isn’t necessarily bad, it is too chaotic for a show that still has multiple episodes before the finale, and no clear plans to evict any characters from the show, or show the growth they’ve experienced.
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The Cleaning Lady airs Monday at 9/8c on FOX.
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Laura Wanberg
Laura is a homebody who loves everything about TV. Some of her favorite shows include Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Parks and Recreation, and The Morning Show. With her ever-growing list of new shows to watch and books to read, her favorite thing to do is to cuddle up with her cat and get lost in someone else's world.