7.2
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Comedy, Drama • 2026 • 100 min
Maddie's Secret (2026)
Maddie's Secret (2026)
Overview
A plucky dishwasher leaps to viral superstardom at a trendy food content creation company. While her life seems picturesque — complete with an adoring husband, ride-or-die best friend and a cupboard full of woman-owned ethically-sourced chili crisp to boot — mounting professional pressures threaten to reawaken a hidden secret from her troubled past.
Starring Cast
John Early • Kip Reynolds • Neil Wachs
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
LGBTQ: Negative
Family Values: Mixed
Christianity: Negative
Viewer Rating
7.2
Overview
A plucky dishwasher leaps to viral superstardom at a trendy food content creation company. While her life seems picturesque — complete with an adoring husband, ride-or-die best friend and a cupboard full of woman-owned ethically-sourced chili crisp to boot — mounting professional pressures threaten to reawaken a hidden secret from her troubled past.
Starring Cast
John Early • Kip Reynolds • Neil Wachs
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Traditional
Primary
Political: Center
Confidence: Medium
Maddie's Secret satirizes influencer culture and classic Lifetime melodramas through the story of a food content creator grappling with personal struggles, emphasizing empathy and sincerity amid artificial performances.
Diversity: Low
Confidence: Medium
Maddie's Secret centers on a food influencer navigating professional pressures and a hidden eating disorder, with a supporting cast that includes a queer best friend and an adoring husband. The story draws from classic melodramatic styles without framing traditional identities negatively or centering diversity themes.
Secondary
LGBTQ: Negative
Confidence: Medium
Maddie's Secret weaves a queer subtext through secondary characters including a butch woman whose obsessive crush turns dangerous and a gay nurse entangled in a doomed attraction. These elements surface amid melodrama and satire rather than affirmation, framing queer desire as fraught and one-sided without balancing dignity or agency for those figures.
Family Values: Mixed
Confidence: Medium
Maddie's Secret centers a seemingly ideal marriage with an adoring husband while highlighting tension in the mother-daughter bond through a withholding parent and intense therapy confrontations.
Christianity: Negative
Confidence: Medium
A mother character identified by her cross necklace is depicted as a villain without narrative counterbalance.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: Medium
Maddie's Secret centers on a woman played by a male actor without framing the role as a trans narrative or exploring transgender identity. Reviews consistently describe the gender presentation as a performance choice rather than a story about transition or trans experience, with no trans characters driving the plot.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: Low
Maddie's Secret presents an original narrative centered on a dishwasher named Maddie without drawing from any prior source material, historical record, or legacy characters that would indicate a gender swap.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: Low
Maddie's Secret is an original screenplay with no source material, prior adaptations, or historical figures establishing canonical racial depictions for its characters. All named roles, including the lead, were created for this production without any documented race swaps from established baselines.
Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: Medium
Not depicted.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.9
5.9
Critic Ratings
8.5
7.4
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