Why Netflix’s ‘Maid’ Adaptation Incorporated Generational Abuse and Trauma in the Mother-Daughter Love Story
Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER 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.