Say, what's up with Netflix?
Could it be that two series on money and classes came out and both are a must-see?
"Maid", the new mini-series of the "Nothing to See There" platform, will make you fall in love with poverty, the poor, and if you are from the right class - maybe even your maid.
The human and melodramatic counter, which receives compliments from those who are not intimidated by its name, is definitely something worth reaching at the end of the second obligatory binge to Netflix, well that one with the squid.
Alex (Margaret Cavalli, "There Were Times in Hollywood") is a young lioness who is forced to flee with a baby from a drunken and violent partner.
She has a non-existent bank account and a hallucinatory hippie mother, who is always there to be self-centered (Andy McDowell, Margaret's mother alive).
This is a series poor in noise and ringing Netflix, but rich in humanity, especially thanks to Cavalli's smart and intimate gameplay.
The poverty that meets Alex is realistic and depressing, unpleasant to see toilet cleaning scenes and a sequence of job news landing on her endlessly, but the compensation comes through an editorial flash in the form of a graphic display of the sums of money that disappear from her pocket every round of shopping and interfering with thoughts in her head. Housekeeper "intriguing and fresh.
"Maid" is also a Cinderella story, literally.
It is based on the true story of a young American woman who was forced to work as a cleaner and live on coins she found in sofa drawers.
What and who she met in those miserable years she wrote as a personal story in a writing workshop.
The piece became a hit that became a series that became that young, Stephanie Land, life.
