(CelebNMusic247-News) Latin Community Slams Eva Longoria‘s Devious Maids
The Latino Community is apparently furious with Lifetime’s new series that comes on Sunday nights at 10pm!
And according to Wendy Williams, Eva Longoria’s series Devious Maids has come under fire for putting Latino’s in a stereo-typical light.
The show is about maids who work for the rich and famous in Beverly Hills. The only problem is the Latino community is outraged that “Desperate Housewives” creator Marc Cherry and executive producer Eva Longoria have used cliche sterotypes. The community does not like watching a show where Latin women are being portrayed as maids.
They are complaining that it demeans Latin women.
In the runup to the premiere of “Devious Maids,” Longoria has been busy defending the show against bloggers who have taken up arms against it.
She told the Los Angeles Times:
“What I didn’t expect was that much criticism from our own community having not even seen it.”
“It doesn’t define our culture, if we’re playing these types of roles.”
Mark Cherry explains that the show is about a tightly knit group of women: Carmen (Roselyn Sanchez), Marisol (Ana Ortiz), Rosie (Dania Ramirez), Zoila (Judy Reyes) and Valentina (Edy Ganem). And, like “Housewives,” it all gets rolling with the discovery of a female corpse, a cryptic note and a murky mystery.
The show’s core cast has good chemistry, and it’s important to point out that Cherry does, indeed, play against type when it comes to his crew of housekeepers. These women aren’t timid, powerless or relentlessly deferential. They’re not one-dimensional. They’ve got ambitions, smarts and personal agendas.
Carmen, for example, is an aspiring — and ultra-talented — singer who hopes that mopping floors for a famous pop star will lead to her big break. Rosie is struggling to bring her son to the United States and works to pay for an immigration lawyer. Marisol is a college-educated woman who has gone undercover to learn the truth about Flora’s murder.
“Devious Maids” was originally done as a pilot for ABC. But the network rejected it, perhaps because of the hubbub the show would generate, or perhaps because it just doesn’t have the same level of freshness, audacity and zing that “Housewives” had when it burst into prime time in 2004.
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