Eva Longoria is one of our great TV stars. There, my truth is out. Longoria has been a welcome TV presence since her run on “The Young and the Restless,” but “Desperate Housewives” catapulted her into true TV stardom.
As the spoiled Gabby, she was funny, sexy, devious, and yet still warmly likable. Longoria quickly found her niche, parlaying her immense likeability to play women who do very unlikeable things — but she keeps you rooting for them regardless. After stepping behind the camera for a series of projects, including executive producing “Devious Maids” and directing “Flamin’ Hot,” Longoria is back on TV in Apple TV+’s dramedy “ Land of Women ,” starring as a disgraced socialite who flees with her family to a remote town when her life falls apart and her family is threatened.
But this isn’t the first time Longoria has played a fish-out-of-water; before “Land of Women” and her last series regular role on the sadly short-lived “Telenovela,” she was the voice star of Hulu’s “ Mother Up! ” in 2013. Never heard of “Mother Up!”? I’m not surprised; it was one of Hulu’s first original series at a time when the platform had more attention for the sudden availability of entire seasons of TV. In it, she played music exec Rudi, who must flee to the suburbs after a video of her hunting children with rapper 2Bit ends her career and her marriage.
(In her own defense, Rudi points out that they only used tranquilizer darts.) Now stranded.
