History Series / DeviousMaids

''Devious Maids'' is a PrimeTimeSoap airing on Lifetime created by [[Series/DesperateHousewives Marc Cherry]] with Eva Longoria serving as the executive producer. Based on the [[{{Telenovela}} Mexican novela]] ''Ellas son la Alegria del Hogar'', the series is about a group of Latina maids, the eccentric Beverly Hills elite for whom they work, and how their lives are affected when one of their own is murdered.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Except for the pilot, the episodes have names connected to domestic work ("Taking Out The Trash," "Minding The Baby," "Scrambling The Eggs," "Wiping Away The Past" etc).

* BittersweetEnding: The first season finale. [[spoiler: Marisol and Eddie are happily reunited and he's been cleared of Flora's murder, but Zoila and Valentina's relationship is shattered when she admits to Valentina she made Remi write the letter telling her to stay and left without saying goodbye. Valentina stops speaking to her mother and begins packing for Africa. Carmen is given the opportunity to have her music career launched, but only if she agrees to be married to Alejandro for two years and not see Sam during that period, which upsets Sam and Odessa. Peri accidentally hears over the phone Spence and Rosie confessing their love for each other and has Rosie deported as Rosie came to the country illegally.]]

** Olivia to Micheal as well.

* HappilyMarried: Michael and Taylor. So is Pablo and Zoila.

* UglyGuyHotWife: Paublo and Zoila. He's balding and old while his wife looks younger and much better than him.

* AssholeVictim: Flora, arguably.
** The more we learn about her the more she looks like one.

* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding: Marisol and Eddie are happily reunited and he's been cleared of murder, but Zoila and Valentina's relationship is shattered when she admits to Valentina she made Remi write the letter telling her to stay and left without saying goodbye. Valentina stops speaking to her mother and begins packing for Africa. Carmen is given the opportunity to have her music career launched, but only if she agrees to be married to Alejandro for two years and not see Sam during that period, which upsets Sam and Odessa. Peri accidentally hears over the phone Spence and Rosie confessing their love for each other and has Rosie deported as Rosie came to the country illegally.]]

* [[OverProtectiveDad Overprotective Mom]]:Zoila, especially when Valentina has feelings for Remi. [[spoiler: She just doesn't want her to get her heart broken, cause she dated Genevieve's brother, who was rich, but he fell in love for someone who was rich as well. That's why she always told her daughter "Rich guys don't date the help".]]

** [[spoiler: Rosie and Marisol have become each other's secret keepers now, much to each other's suspicions.]]

The being said, the show seems to explores Latina stereotypes about as much as it does any other trope; it plays with them, challenges them at times, but is mostly focused on being a fun, soapy satire and SpiritualSuccessor to ''Series/DesperateHousewives''.

* [[ShesGotLegs They got legs]]

* HotDad: Spence Westmore.

* HotMom: Zoila, Rosie, and Marisol, even though her son is adopted.
** Peri counts as well, even though her son is just a baby. Taylor will be one was well.
** Genevieve too.

* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding: Marisol and Eddie are happily reunited and he's been cleared of murder, but Zoila and Valentina's relationship is shattered when she admits to Valentina she made Remi write the letter telling her to stay and left without saying goodbye. Valentina stops speaking to her mother and begins packing for Africa. Carmen is given the opportunity to have her music career launched, but only if she agrees to be married to Alejandro for two years and not see Sam during that period, which upsets Sam and Odessa. Peri accidentally hears over the phone Spence and Rosie confessing their love for each other and has Rosie deported.]]

* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding: Marisol and Eddie are happily reunited and he's been cleared of murder, but Zoila and Valentina's relationship is shattered when she admits to Valentina she made Remi write the letter telling her to stay and left without saying goodbye. Valentina stops speaking to her mother and begins packing for Africa. Carmen is offered to have her career launched if she agrees to be married to Alejandro for two years, upsetting Sam and Odessa. Peri accidentally hears over the phone Spence and Rosie confessing their love for each other and has Rosie deported.]]

* DownerEnding: As of the season 1 finale, all the maids' storylines except Marisol's: [[spoiler: Zoila admits to Valentina she made him write the letter telling her to stay and left without saying goodbye causing her to not speak to her mother and begin packing for Africa anyway. Carmen is offered to have her career launched if she agrees to be married to Alejandro for two years, upsetting Sam and Odessa. Peri accidentally hears over the phone Spence and Rosie confessing their love for each other and has Rosie deported.]]

** Pretty much all the maids except Valentina are to varying degrees this. Zoila has spent much of her life having to take care of her irresponsible high maintenance employer who falls in love too easily and has been hurt many times and [[spoiler: had her heart broken by her employer's brother]], Rosie's husband died and in order to find work to support her son she came to America and hopes to bring him here to give him a better life, Carmen [[spoiler: fled from an unhappy marriage to a man who did not support her singing, the one thing that brought her joy]].

* BerserkButton: Zoila: Insult her cooking or [[Mama Bear screw around with her daughter]]

** Carmen: Treating your employees unfairly. [[spoiler: Alejandro learned this when he didn't care about Odessa with her cancer, Carmen threw her soup and threatened to quit]]

* DirtyOldMan: Adrian Powell, he's a creepy [[ThePeepingTom Peeping Tom]],sets his friends up with prostitutes, and he also flirts with the maids.
** His Friends as well.

** Inverted with Peri, she didn't care about Spence's feelings if he found out that she cheeted on him.

* HappilyMarried: Micheal and Taylor. So is Pablo and Zoila.

* HotMom: Zoila, Rosie, and Marsol, even though her son is adopted.

* [[OverProtectiveDad Overprotective Mom]]:Zoila, especially when Valentina has feelings for Remi. [[spoiler: She just doesn't want her to get her heart broken, cause she dated Genevieve's brother, who was rich, but he feel in love for someone who was rich as well. That's why she always told her daughter "Rich guys don't date the help".]]

** It's implied that he does this with all his prostitutes.
** And tapes their encounters

** Carmen: Treating your employees unfairly. {{spoiler: Alejandro learned this when he didn't care about Odessa with her cancer, Carmen threw her soup and threatened to quit}}

* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: Many examples.

* BlondesAreEvil: Remi's girlfriend.

* Catfight: Between Valentina and Remi's girlfriend. The gardeners wanted to watch them

* TrophyWife: Tayler

* {Fanservice}: Cause they're beautiful and ''dirty'' rich.

** Olivia to Tom as well.

* [[OverProtectiveDad Overprotective Mom]]:Zoila, especially when Valentina has feelings for Remi. [[spolier: She just doesn't want her to get her heart broken, cause she dated Genevieve's brother, who was rich, but he feel in love for someone who was rich as well. That's why she always told her daughter "Rich guys don't date the help".]]