Five-year-old secret agent Millie arrives in the city searching for her father. After saving mafia boss Alessandro Sterling, she becomes his personal bodyguard, using her extraordinary powers to protect him. But Vanessa and Lily turn against her, framing her for things she never did. Heartbroken by Alessandro's distrust, Millie leaves, only to discover a hidden needle in his knee that has kept him from walking. As he begins to recover, Vanessa plots to poison him again.
The joke of the premise is also its engine: the most capable person in a mafia boss's orbit is five years old. Millie is a secret agent in a small body, and Alessandro Sterling owes her his life, which is how a child ends up guarding a man who should not need guarding. The real threat is not an outside attack, though. It is the two women who decide to frame her, and the moment Alessandro chooses to believe them over the kid who saved him. From there the show keeps asking one question: how much does he lose by not trusting her, and what will it take for him to see it?
Pick it if you have a soft spot for genius-child stories where the adults are the ones who need rescuing, and for hidden-identity plots with a slow counterattack. Trust, betrayal and the cost of pride are the themes. The Mafia Daddy's Little Bodyguard runs 51 short episodes of about 1 to 2 minutes, made for your phone.
