In a desire to recapture the dark playfulness and poison-candy sheen of "Desperate Housewives'" Wisteria Lane, Cherry goes for high drawing room camp, opening with the show's Evil Queen, Evelyn Powell (Rebecca Wisocky), informing her maid, Flora (Paula Garces), that as much as she admires "your peop
is the newcomer to the maids' lunch break gatherings, Marisol (Ugly Betty's Ana Ortiz). Though she works for one couple, for reasons that will become clearlater, she's really interested in another: Flora's mysterious, string-pulling employers, Adrian and Evelyn Powell (Tom Irwin and Rebecca Wisocky).
Inspired by a telenovela, "Devious Maids" has broadly drawn characters, particularly the employers. Evelyn Powell (Rebecca Wisocky, "American Horror Story"), whose maid was slain, could teach royalty about entitlement.
I think what you people do is heroic, crazy evil rich lady Evelyn Powell (Rebecca Wisocky) tells her maid, Flora (Paula Garcs). You wash clothes you cant afford. You polish silver you will never dine with ... and you still dream of a better life.