Maid, the Netflix Series That Has the World Enthralled

Maid is one of the latest hits from Netflix. For anyone who’s suffered abuse, the beginning of this show may well be familiar. We see a young woman, getting up in the middle of the night trying not to wake her partner. She then picks up her daughter in her arms, places her in the back seat of the car, and drives off. It’s hard not to feel deep empathy for the protagonist of this series. Poverty, love for children, the complexity of relationships based on abuse, and the problems of those who are in need of state aid all…