Winter's Cumin' Streaming 24' - The Cleaning Lady - Season Three

The Cleaning Lady dodged a bullet before Fox announced it's 2024-2025 lineup. However there is a twist. We won't see the series until at least early 2025. That said, Fox rested 9-1-1: Lone Star along with Accused. I am however looking forward to the new Fox series, Rescue: HI-Surf next TV season. Which does sound like a fresh reworking of Baywatch.

Speaking of apparently Baywatch is getting rebooted. Oh boy!

This third season, was one of the longest of all the US network series I watched this disjointed, post writers/actors strike season. At 12 episodes it did feel bloated. The season premiered early March, concluding with a double finale, streaming last night on Binge.

So fingers crossed Binge scores the rights to fellow Fox series, Rescue: HI-Surf towards the end of the year.

With a fourth season coming in the future, we will have some new cast members joining. Following mid season Arman (Adan Canto) perishing in a car crash, following lead star Adan Canto passing away before the season began. 

In Fight or Flight the first half of The Cleaning Lady‘s third season finale, we get get another casualty,

Arman’s wife, Nadia (Eva De Dominici).

Nadia was stabbed by cartel bo$$ Ramona, her demise came just as she was finally getting out from under the cartel’s thumb and starting a new life somewhere else. 

Also, Thony and Fiona helped Nadia hide from the cartel and got her the resources she’d need for a truly successful fresh start; Thony even revealed to Jorge that Nadia was still alive, and Jorge agreed to transfer Nadia the money that she would have collected from their joint business venture if her death hadn’t been faked.

Nadia now, with her substantial fortune, a passport with the name Natalie Vasquez and identity-concealing blonde wig, Nadia drove out to an open field with Thony.

A helicopter arrived for her to begin new life. But the helicopter that touched down wasn’t Nadia’s ride, after all. Instead, Ramona stepped out of the chopper, having discovered that Nadia was in fact still alive.

Ramona reminded Nadia that she’d given her quite a few chances to be part of the cartel and, by extension, Ramona’s family. But Nadia replied that she had no interest in that life once she knew Ramona was responsible for Arman’s fate.

Ramona drove a knife into Nadia’s stomach, and Thony was pulled away from Nadia as she attempted to save her. 

Before Nadia bled out, she urged Thony to get revenge on Ramona.

As the second episode for this seasons finale House of Cards begun, we could have potentially been watching the finale ever episode.

In which, Ramona was ultimately arrested at a major charity gala she was hosting, leaving Jorge to run the cartel in his sister’s absence. Having worked more closely than ever with Thony during the final two episodes of season three, Jorge offered her a position within the cartel, since she’d no longer have to worry about her or her family’s safety.

We leave season three with Thony & the extended family at home, rightfully enjoying some hard-earned relaxation. Camila was also reunited with her mom, both rescued from the cartel’s workforce.

Finally, Luca handed Thony a gift box he’d found addressed to her at the back door. In a separate room, Thony and Fiona opened the box to find a cell phone sitting inside; the attached note read, “Thony, I have a job for you,” and came from a man named Derek, who we’ve yet to see on screen but was repeatedly mentioned by Ramona as one of her close contacts.

“What are you going to do?” Fiona asked Thony, who dropped the phone back in its box as it rang with a call from an unknown number. Thony shook her head and replied, “Not this time.”

So should The Cleaning Lady called it a day following Adan Canto's passing along with declining storylines? It should ideally wrap up next season when it returns in 2025. The series started out fun, however I feel its storylines are now coming to run their course. We will see where the series ends up when it returns.