School is back in session! So that means, my baby girl and I are back sitting at my grandmas house watching shows while my son is at school.
I waited a little bit to post so that I had at least a couple things to talk over. So here goes the first one!
Maid
Now this show was a tad slow to start. And while the whole show felt a bit slow, it felt overwhelmingly relatable to me in a few ways.
So this short series is a bout a young mother, her daughter just turning 4, is in a relationship with an alcoholic. They live in a small, old trailer house, poor and there is emotional abuse.
The storyline follows this mother along her path to get her and her daughter away from that life, but she is met with many, many obstacles regarding government assistance and housing. She dreams of being a writer too.
She gets a job finally working as a maid for the rich people living on Fisher Island. She has to take a ferry there in order to work, but how will she find someone to watch her daughter?
This show really hit me in a lot of ways. With the similarities of being poor, living in a shitty old trailer house with kids, an alcoholic and some emotional stresses, and the dream of writing for a living.
I made a comment during the show, “it would be so hard to be this poor and clean such amazing homes…”
I said this like I couldn’t imagine what it would be like, in fact I think I actually said that. But the truth is, I 1,000% DO know what that is like. My grandparents are rich. And cleaning their house (when they are gone on vacation, I clean to be nice and considerate) it makes me envious. It IS hard to do. Because then I go home to clean my own house, and it’s stressful. I don’t have nice new, quality materials to clean, no, my house is old, and a mobile home at that, which means it was made with subpar materials, which are hard to clean. Especially when you moved in after a 90 year old woman who didn’t clean… that grime never comes off. The chips in the linoleum are everywhere, as well as exposed staples that hold the flooring down.
Being dirt poor, cleaning a nice home, it simultaneously hurts and makes you try harder to make things better.
Enough of the rant!
This show was good. It was short, but I enjoyed it. It showcases real and raw situations that people go through, more specifically, is low class people.
All in all, I’d give this show a 7/10!
~A
Ink & Embers 