I did binge-watch the first four episodes of Maid last night, it's an amazing series on a young single mother battling against poverty to change her and her daughter's life, and I'm not writing "white trash" because Alex, the main protagonist, obviously isn't, she just leads an existence against the odds. And Margaret Qualley puts on a great, deep performance. As the daughter of a film star she cannot have led anything but an entitled life, but she plays Alex so well and without any broad cliché strokes (or prosthetics/theater makeup for a perceived underclass look) either. I also like how none of the other roles take the easy way out, the "only lightly", but sufficiently abusive boyfriend, whose abuse she initially denies and who does actually try to be a better person, her sometimes charming, but unfit for life/irresponsible hippie/failed artist mother (played by her real mother, Andie MacDowell, like you haven't seen her before) or the wealthy people she cleans houses for who aren't just plain nasty or callous, but very often caught up in their own (albeit non-economic) despair. A really remarkable watch.
