If you thought The Cleaning Lady had already shown you the limits of survival and sacrifice, think again. The two-part season 4 finale, “Killer Queen” and “As Time Goes By,” isn’t just a thriller, it’s an emotional gut-punch, a prison break drama, a cartel chess game, and an origin story for a new kind of anti-heroine. It’s the best the show has ever been.

Martha Millan and Élodie Yung have always delivered standout performances, but Yung levels up in these episodes as Thony is arrested, imprisoned, beaten, broken, and then, slowly and chillingly, reborn. What begins as an unfair arrest based on a supposed sting operation orchestrated by Jorge and Joel, quickly spirals into a full-fledged descent into hell. Thony ends up face-to-face with cartel queen Ramona in prison, where survival be

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