I support women’s rights and also women’s wrongs.
Goodness knows I’d have to for the sake of continuing to watch The Cleaning Lady, given that Thony De La Rosa is a trouble magnet who hurls herself into any dicey situation she can find at any given moment.
Hell, I’m not even against a woman getting her swerve on a bit.
He’s Hot, Thony, but NO
She’s had a tough go of it on the series with a shoddy husband, that insane but short-lived chemistry with Arman (R.I.P., Sir), and this Fake Marriage trope that likely is sending any fan of the romance genre into a frenzy.
But I absolutely draw the line at my girl having trauma-comfort sex with Dr. Oui Oui on the dirty floor of a hospital locker room.
What are we doing here, mon amie mi amiga?
Perhaps part of the disconnect in this latest development is that when we met Dr. DuPont, he was a jackass. It was like the series couldn’t decide if he’d play up to that stereotype of French people being incredibly rude and condescending or shy away from it.
It resulted in DuPont being this mixed bag of a character who spent whatever time Tony was even at the hospital (which wasn’t often) serving as an antagonist to her.
In hindsight, I guess it was foreplay, maybe?
The Love Triangle is the Weakest Part of The Cleaning Lady Season 4
Most of The Cleaning Lady Season 4 has been incredible and interesting.
The series bounced back from a poor third season that lost its footing in the wake of Arman’s death and the loss of an intense but charismatic lead with the late Adan Canto.
But where it falters a bit (outside of whatever the hell they’re doing with Chris) is shoehorning in this love triangle of sorts between Thony, DuPont, and Jorge.
To his credit, DuPont seems to know he can’t have good things and happiness, and that his connection with Thony isn’t long-lasting.
Or hell, maybe he’s just angsty and emo, and that was a spiel to tell Thony before they rolled around on the floor. It’s hard to say because DuPont doesn’t really have much presence outside of those moments with Thony.
Dr. Oui Oui McFrenchie is Underdeveloped with No Personality
That’s probably why Thony’s dynamic with Dr. Frenchie doesn’t leap off the screen like something compelling.
They ushered it along to make Jorge jealous and have DuPont serve as an obstacle to what felt like the inevitable and more interesting ship.
My issue is we didn’t really need that obstacle at all, did we? There has been plenty of conflict between Jorge and Thony to draw out their obvious connection and complicate their indefinable, symbiotic relationship.
DuPont has been a waste of a character because they didn’t draw this dynamic he has with Thony out enough for it to be appealing or for us to ever actually believe that a world exists where maybe she could be lured by his attraction to her and the “normalcy” that he promises.
Even the notion that he’s almost as dark and twisted as she is doesn’t have the desired effect because we don’t know much about him enough to care.
If We Had to (We Didn’t) The Beds Were RIGHT THERE!
Presently, he’s just the obnoxious doctor who abruptly lusts after Thony and likes to stand toe to toe with Jorge because he assumes that Thony — badass, brilliant, reckless, risk-taking, problematic Thony — is some damsel in distress caught up in the cartel life against her will — as if the reality isn’t that she has Jorge wrapped around her finger. Ha!
Sure, much of my distaste comes from needing to wash my eyes out after watching two objectively sexy actors have one of the least sexy and bizarrely awkward sex scenes that looked more torturous than seductive.
And I’m definitely all aboard the Thony and Jorge train. I have my bias, and I’m not sorry about it.
But the only thing more frustrating than triangles is inadequate, unevenly developed ones.
Because unless DuPont becomes a last-minute liability because she told him too much, or he’s a game-changing character utilized as a last-minute twist, he’s just … there, bugging me, and not remotely convincing as a suitable point of this triangle, even if it’s temporary.
Thony, Girl, What are You Doing on This Locker Room Floor?! Anyway, Team Jorge
I’m all for Thony experiencing worship and having options because she deserves as much. But it’s not an organic development.
Maybe this DuPont love triangle thing they could’ve left on the same floor these two are canoodling on.
If anyone needs me, I’ll be listening to Jorge’s voicemail again and gearing up for a hopefully satisfying finale.
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