It’s more a judicious insertion of useful information in dialogue that makes sense coming out of the mouth of someone who works in social services. There’s also an educational component to “Maid” but not in a lecturing way.
Lawyers in the courtroom speak normally punctuated by the gibberish of: “Legal, legal, legal, legal, legal…” In episode two, when Alex goes to court when Sean seeks to get Maddy back, viewers hear the proceedings from Alex’s point of view to show her confusion. In the first episode, the amount of money she has is occasionally displayed on screen and then recalculated down as she has to buy cleaning supplies before going on her first house-cleaning assignment. Metzler uses some creative and effective ways to convey Alex’s dire straits. Episode two gives Alex a few wins that help “Maid” avoid becoming so tonally dark as to be unwatchable. The first episode, in particular, is bleak.
Then everything that could go wrong – much of it out of Alex’s control – does go wrong. Her mentally ill, hippie-artist mother Paula (Andie MacDowell, Qualley’s mother in real life, too) is of little help so it’s not long before Alex is looking for work and finds a job as a maid.
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That’s quite a tightrope to walk and “Maid,” executive produced by playwright-turned TV writer Molly Smith Metzler (“Orange is the New Black,” Shameless”) and director and 1979 Carnegie Mellon University grad John Wells (“ER,” “Shameless”), does it remarkably well.Īlex (Margaret Qualley) has had it with Sean (Nick Robinson, “Love, Simon”) who’s emotionally abusive, so she takes daughter Maddy (Rylea Nevaeh Whittet) and runs.
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Watching Netflix’s “Maid,” a fictionalized limited series inspired by author Stephanie Land’s 2019 memoir “Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay and a Mother’s Will to Survive,” it’s striking how the series can all at once be a harrowing drama, an illumination of how Americans fall through the cracks and an instruction manual for viewers caught in similar circumstances without becoming a didactic “Afterschool Special.” Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week.
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