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There are a lot of shows to watch across so many streaming services nowadays, and many are just there for entertainment purposes or to turn off your brain and not have to think for a while. However, some shows leave a lasting impression and resonate with many who watch. Whether you know someone who feels reminiscent of the protagonist or if you personally can relate to what's happening in the show, you watch and feel everything. Maid is one of those shows. Maid is a 2021 Netflix drama series that follows Alex (Margaret Qualley) and her young daughter Maddy (Rylea Nevaeh Whittet) as they escape an abusive relationship with Alex's long-term boyfriend, Sean (Nick Robinson).

The cast of Maid features a talented group of actors and complex characters. Maid debuted on Netflix on October 1, 2021. The miniseries remained on the site's "Top 10" list for weeks, making it one of the streaming giant's top movies that year. Inspired by Stephanie Land's memoir, the show follows Alex, a young woman struggling to escape a cycle of abuse with her preschool daughter. Full of emotional highs and lows, Maid was one of the most critically acclaimed Netflix releases of 2021. Stephanie Land appreciated the choices the showrunners made while fictionalizing her memoir, especially Maid's exploration of more than one perspective.

Land explained (via Seattle Times) that while her book was limited to her own true story, Maid could bring in and focus on other characters as well. The show tries to highlight not only Kate's difficulties supporting herself and her child, but also her ex's struggles with substance abuse,...

The Netflix series Maid is a sad, heartfelt adaptation of Stephanie Land's 2019 memoir, and it seems like season 2 could explore more of Alex Russell's story. Based on Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive, the series follows Alex (played by Margaret Qualley) as she brings her young daughter, Maddy (Rylea Nevaeh Whittet), to a shelter to get away from Maddy's father, Sean Boyd (Nick Robinson). Maid examines Alex's pain, poverty, and difficult job for a cleaning service, and in the season 1 finale, she and Maddy move to Montana and experience freedom when Sean gives Alex full custody.

Questions about a Maid season 2 release date make sense given Maid's critical acclaim and positive reviews. Qualley's performance is excellent, and the actor received a 2022 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. Also of note is Qualley's casting alongside her real-life mother,...

Netflix’s limited series “Maid” was a hit for the streamer, as one of its top 10 shows of all time and most-watched limited series ever. Star Margaret Qualley, for one, is amazed at the reception.

“Mind blowing,” she tells Variety’s Awards Circuit Podcast. “I mean, it’s so gratifying, truly mind blowing for me. I just didn’t expect that at all. I don’t really think anyone making it did. We thought it was going to be kind of quiet. It’s about a woman who’s crying a lot, her daughter, and she’s cleaning homes. Who would imagine that to reach so many households?”

But it clearly resonated with viewers. On this episode, we talk to Qualley about making “Maid,” which required her to be in virtually every scene. Plus, we talk about her bond with her young co-star, Rylea Nevaeh Whittet, and also the treat...

As the pandemic has acutely pointed out, America runs on the working class: grocery store clerks, sanitation workers, and delivery drivers who are doing the grunt work of keeping this country afloat as they fight for a reasonable minimum wage while barely being able to afford their own housing. Many of them are women; working-class sheroes who are stringing together paychecks and odd jobs to take care of themselves and, oftentimes, children and other relatives.

These are worlds that the glitz and glamour of Hollywood often ignore but that are taking prominent places in this award season’s crop of prestige television. SAG-nominated performances include those from programming such as Hulu’s “Dopesick,” the miniseries that gives faces to people impacted by the opioid crisis, and HBO’s “Mare of Easttown,” a story of an exhausted and beat-down small-town cop surrounded by her equally exhausted and beat-down friends and family,...

After earning her first solo SAG Award nomination this morning for her turn in Netflix’s Maid, Margaret Qualley spoke with Deadline about her experience with the series, as well as upcoming roles in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Victorian drama Poor Things, Claire Denis’ The Stars at Noon and Zachary Wigon’s thriller Sanctuary, and the status of the film Fred & Ginger from director Jonathan Entwistle, in which she’s set to play Ginger Rogers opposite Jamie Bell’s Fred Astaire.

While Spider-Man‘s Tom Holland recently announced that he will topline his own Astaire biopic for Sony, Qualley is unaware at this point of when Fred & Ginger might get made. “I don’t know, but I hope it happens soon,” she says. “I love Jamie Bell so much and I’m always trying to be typecast as a dancer, so I can just dance in everything I do.

At just 27 years old, Margaret Qualley has racked up notable performances in numerous films and television shows bound to be cherished for a lifetime. From “The Leftovers” and “Fosse/Verdon” to “Once Upon a Time in America” and “The Nice Guys,” she’s already collaborated with Oscar and Emmy winners, and now she’s in Panama, working on the latest film from Claire Denis.

But even with Qualley’s early accomplishments, she admits to feeling like she doesn’t fit into the mold of other performers. The actress said she hasn’t had much exposure to awards season, but what she has experienced so far has been just plain fun. Qualley jokes it’s something she should probably talk about in therapy, but she has a tendency to lower her expectations so she’ll never be disappointed — even when she ended up Emmy-nominated for her role as Ann Reinking in the FX limited series “Fosse/Verdon.

For Maid star Margaret Qualley, her job was all about building a relationship with child actor Rylea Nevaeh Whittet and making her feel safe on the set of the Netflix series that delves into domestic abuse and dealing with trauma as a mother.

“The thing that resonated with me the most from both the script and Stephanie Land’s memoir — which of course inspired the series — was just how much she loved her daughter and how important that relationship was to her,” Qualley, 27, tells THR. “Her daughter was her life. Given the fact I am not a ...

For Maid star Margaret Qualley, her job was all about building a relationship with child actor Rylea Nevaeh Whittet and making her feel safe on the set of the Netflix series that delves into domestic abuse and dealing with trauma as a mother.

“The thing that resonated with me the most from both the script and Stephanie Land’s memoir — which of course inspired the series — was just how much she loved her daughter and how important that relationship was to her,” Qualley, 27, tells THR. “Her daughter was her life. Given the fact I am not a ...

Showrunner and executive producer Molly Smith Metzler, director and executive producer John Wells, and stars Margaret Qualley and Andie MacDowell, from the critically acclaimed Netflix limited series “Maid,” will reunite to tell all about the 10-episode drama when they join Gold Derby’s special spotlight Q&a event. Watch their 30-minute roundtable chat with our senior editor Daniel Montgomery.

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Inspired by Stephanie Land‘s memoir “Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive,” the Netflix adaptation tells the story of Alex, who leaves an abusive relationship in order to make a better life for herself and her young daughter Maddy (Rylea Nevaeh Whittet). She takes a job cleaning houses to make ends meet, but all the while she...

Photo: ‘Maid’ Netflix’s new series ‘Maid’ has garnered the acclaim and recognition it deserves. Audiences are brought on a harrowing journey of a young mother struggling to become financially and emotionally free from her contemptuous relationship The one-word title fails to capture the richly complex narrative of a woman maneuvering the financial and legal system to support her daughter while living below the poverty line. The vague title barely scratches the surface of a multifaceted story that leads Alex (Margaret Qualley) down a path where she is forced to redefine her identity as a mother, daughter, and confront childhood traumas that are impeding her personal growth. Viewers are transfixed as Alex and her three-year-old daughter, Maddy (Rylea Nevaeh Whittet), transition to a phase in their lives without the toxic presence of Alex’s boyfriend, Sean (Nick Robinson.) Related article: Exclusive: 'Dune' Full Commentary, Reactions, Making Of - Timothee Chalamet,...

Debuting on September 28, 2021, the Netflix original drama series Maid has become one of the platform's most popular new titles. Based on the Stephanie Land memoir Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive, much of the appeal comes from protagonist Alex (Margaret Qualley), a woman who leaves her abusive husband with her young daughter in tow and begins life as a domestic worker.

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While Alex is the primary player, it's her close friends, casual acquaintances, and complicated family members that help and sometimes hinder her path to happiness and success as she struggles to make ends meet and provide for her daughter Maddy (Rylea Nevaeh Whittet).

After everything Sean put Alex through on Netflix’s limited series Maid, one would think that he’d want to make amends and let her move to Montana for college with Maddy in tow.

Maddy (played by Rylea Nevaeh Whittet), though, was Sean’s (Nick Robinson) only connection to Alex (Margaret Qualley) and his only method to control and hurt his ex-girlfriend — and that’s exactly what he tried to do in the drama’s series finale. Alex had other plans, and with the help of her lawyer she did everything she could to fight back against the verbally and...

Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not watched “Maid,” streaming now on Netflix.

After playwright Molly Smith Metzler read Stephanie Land’s memoir, “Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive,” she began to look at the world differently.

Specifically, this was because of the passage in which Land described a time in her life when she and her daughter were living in an apartment that got so damp it was growing black mold, resulting in her daughter becoming chronically ill. She brought her daughter to a doctor who told her, “You have to do better.”

That moment “really rattled” Smith Metzler because of she, also a mother, could imagine working hard to do everything you can for your child and still being helpless to get out of a bad situation. It was a moment she knew she had to include verbatim in her...

In the middle of the night, a young woman grabs her daughter and runs, using what little gas is left in her car to flee her abusive partner.

That’s the way “Maid,” a new drama on Netflix, starts, as Margaret Qualley’s Alex runs from her daughter’s brutish father (Nick Robinson). Alex, daughter (Rylea Nevaeh Whittet) in tow, finds itinerant employment as a home cleaner, but the hours aren’t enough to liberate her financially, and endless challenges with childcare, the legal system, and an impossible housing market mean that Robinson’s Sean swirls in and out of her life.

“Maid” is not exactly naturalistic — the show is not shy about using sometimes overheated visual metaphor to convey a plight that we already understand is quite challenging, and some of the performances and dialogue are quite florid. But the series does generally have an admirable soberness and seriousness...

HBO Max announced that Season 2 of “Love Life” will premiere Oct. 28 with its first three episodes.

Then, the second three episodes of the 10-episode season will stream on Nov. 4, with the final four concluding on Nov. 11.

The second season of the romantic dramedy centers on Marcus Watkins (William Jackson Harper), who comes out of a years-long relationship and is forced to once again look for the perfect love he thought he had already found.

The season also stars Jessica Williams, Punkie Johnson and Chris “Comedian Cp” Powell. Arian Moayed, Leslie Bibb and John Earl Jelks are recurring guest stars and Maya Kazan, Ego Nwodim, Kimberly Elise, Blair Underwood, Janet Hubert, Jordan Rock and Steven Boyer are guest stars. Keith David narrates. Season 1’s Anna Kendrick, who also executive produces, Zoë Chao, Peter Vack, Sasha Compére and Nick Thune will appear.

In addition to Kendrick, “Love Life” is executive produced by showrunners Sam Boyd,...

Maid Trailer — Netflix‘s Maid (2021) TV mini-series teaser trailer has been released. The Maid trailer stars Margaret Qualley, Billy Burke, Andie MacDowell, Nick Robinson, Anika Noni Rose, Tracy Vilar, Rylea Nevaeh Whittet, Bj Harrison, Erin Karpluk, Toby Levins, Alessandro Juliani, Hilaria Larriva, and Mozhan Marno. Crew John Wells, Helen Shaver, Nzingha Stewart, [...]

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Netflix is launching some new series in the coming months.

The streamer on Monday announced premiere dates for Maid and Cowboy Bepop.

Maid touches down on the streamer Friday, October 1.

Maid is inspired by the New York Times best-selling memoir, Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive by Stephanie Land.

Maid follows the story of Alex, a single mother who turns to housecleaning to — barely — make ends meet as she escapes an abusive relationship and overcomes homelessness to create a better life for her daughter, Maddy.

Seen through the emotional yet humorous lens of a desperate but determined woman, this series is a raw and inspiring exploration of a mother’s resilience.

The series stars Margaret Qualley (Alex), Nick Robinson (Sean), Anika Noni Rose (Regina), Tracy Vilar (Yolanda), Billy Burke (Hank) and Andie MacDowell (Paula). Also starring Rylea Nevaeh Whittet (Maddy), Raymond Ablack (Nate), Bj Harrison...

Prett-ay… prett-ay… prett-ay good news: “Curb Your Enthusiasm” Season 11 will premiere in October, HBO said Monday.

Larry David is back with co-stars Susie Essman, Jeff Garlin, Cheryl Hines, Richard Lewis, J.B. Smoove and Ted Danson to offer his opinions about the pandemic and wrap himself in the show’s signature misfortunes.

Season 10 ended with a fire taking down Larry’s spite store, Latte Larry’s — created in order to put the neighboring Mocha Joe’s out of business.

“Curb Your Enthusiasm” is created by David, who executive produces with Jeff Garlin, Schaffer and Gavin Polone. Laura Streicher co-executive produces, while Jon Hayman and Steve Leff serve as consulting producers.

The network also announced that “Succession” and “Insecure” will also return in October.

You're allowed to be happy, but not in front of me. #CurbYourEnthusiasm is back this October. pic.twitter.com/kBCjMedLOZ

— HBO (@HBO) August 23, 2021

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