TV shows we love: Maid

A mother, a maid, a survivor. Three words that describe Alex, the protagonist whose story is delicately told through the seven-part series Maid, released in 2021. A production based on Stephanie Land’s real-life experience and bestselling memoir Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive is a story about a woman oscillating between an abusive household and the precarity of homelessness.

A story of resilience; of all the women whose safety has been compromised inside their own...