Maid weaves a messy, unexpected fairy tale out of the tangled threads of generational domestic violence.
, Alex flees her shitty trailer inhabited by her shitty boyfriend in the middle of the night with just her toddler and a backpack of their belongings, sleeping rough and then having a social worker explain to them that they’re not quite desperate enough for immediate assistance.
That initial sour taste lingered as a calculator superimposed on the side of the screen subtracts the cost of dollar-store cleaning supplies necessary for the house cleaning job off the $12 that makes up all the money Alex has in the world. Her SNAP forms are, once again, headed with the words “White Trash.” It was hard to know who these signifiers of her peril were meant for, the character or the viewer.
“This seems like rich people explaining poverty to other rich people,” I texted a friend from my hometown, one who is very well-versed in my brutal childhood and my sensitivity to anything approaching thestyle of recreating those circumstances through bad wigs and prestige-drama Oscar-chasers shouting all their lines in embarrassing accents.
Cleaning an arts and crafts room in its final episode, finally, surely on her way to what the audience can see is a more stable future, Alex spills a bottle of glitter. Its remains stick
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