![]() As for her mom, Paula (played by Qualley’s real-life mother, Andie MacDowell) - good luck getting Paula to focus long enough to babysit Maddie for a couple of hours, let alone take in Alex and the baby. Broke, jobless and with Sean blowing up her phone and urging her to come back, Alex wants little to do with her estranged father (Billy Burke), who has long ago divorced her mother, remarried, found Jesus and started a new family. Mostly, though, “Maid” the series isn’t an examination of class differences - it’s the tale of Qualley’s Alex, who encounters one obstacle after another (she’s been navigating a very rough road since she was just a child) but remains determined to carve out an independent, substantial and lasting existence for herself and her toddler daughter, no matter how many times the system and the flawed and in some cases awful people in her life try to get in her way.Īlex is living in a trailer with her emotionally abusive and alcoholic boyfriend Sean (Nick Robinson) and their 2-year-old daughter Maddie (Rylea Nevaeh Whittet) when she makes the decision to scoop up Maddie and leave in the middle of the night - and that’s pretty much the extent of Alex’s plan. Qualley is heartbreakingly real and natural and does some seriously heavy lifting, as she’s in nearly every scene in showrunner Molly Smith Metzler’s adaptation of Stephanie Land’s best-selling memoir “Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay and a Mother’s Will To Survive,” which tells the story of a single mother and aspiring writer who takes a job cleaning houses, which gives her a front-row seat into the worlds of the clients who barely notice she’s there as they live out their privileged, complicated, messy and sometimes deeply unhappy lives. In the Netflix limited series “Maid,” it’s Qualley’s nomination-worthy and fully realized performance that carries the day through a 10-episode arc that is an admittedly tough and sometimes depressingly downbeat slog before a well-earned, upbeat and inspirational concluding chapter. A 10-episode series available Friday on Netflix.
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