When a major character dies within the first three minutes of new show Devious Maids, you know it is going to be good.

The new dramatic series follows the lives of five maids working in Los Angeles. Each maid is assigned to a family with a number of dirty secrets, are all somehow intertwined with one another. After the murder of Flora Hernandez, the maid who was killed at the beginning of the show, a young butler Eddie, is charged with her murder. Eddie’s mother Marisol, who was previously an award winning English professor must pretend to be a maid in order to find out the truth about Flora’s murder and clear her son’s name. In order to figure out who the murderer is, Marisol must become friends with Adrian and Evelyn Powell, who were Hernandez’s employers. Out of the four families the show focuses on, the Powell’s are the most secretive. Despite their pretentiousness, one can’t help but feel bad for the Powells after it is revealed that they had a son named Barrett who was hit by a car and killed instantly. As Marisol finds out more of the family’s secrets the show gets more and more in depth.

Even with many surprises in each episode, conflicts are easy to follow. Whether it is an affair or a new husband for the three-time divorcee that one of the maids cleans up after. Devious Maids keeps viewers enthralled by cleverly adding new pieces of evidence that get Marisol one step closer to figuring out who the real murderer is. Unlike many other dramas, the writers of Devious Maids never let the main conflict, the murder, get hidden under the piles of secrets on the show. Even though the show has been on air for only six weeks there is always a new conflict brought up.
The show’s success can’t be overlooked without giving credit to the actresses. Judy Reyes who plays Zoila Diaz is most commonly known for her role as Carla on the comedy Scrubs. Reyes plays Carla perfectly, nailing the spunky attitude that her character had but in Devious Maids. She adds even more edge to her character while also keeping her sass. The only character who seems to be lacking is Zoila’s daughter, Valentina, played by Edy Ganem. This could be in part to her lack of experience as an actress, therefore it is easy to see that she still is not 100% comfortable in front of the camera. Luckily, the other actresses surrounding Ganem make up for that.

Devious Maids has thankfully already been signed for a second season because of its success from the beginning. It airs Sundays on Lifetime at 9.