Good men aren’t easy to find in Netflix’s Maid. The limited series is based on Stephanie Land’s bestseller memoir and features Margaret Qualley (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Leftovers) as Alex an 18-year-old girl who is adamant that she spends the whole three years of her child’s existence trying to keep her head above the water after fleeing from the abusive partner.
Cleaning toilets is one of the few constants in her daily routine – exactly 338 when the time she arrives to Missoula, Montana – as she repacks and packs the bags of her passengers nine times changing from post to pillar, including two stays in a shelter for domestic violence, in addition to a stay on the ferry station’s floor. When it gets dark when she meets Nate (Raymond Ablack). He first came across her when they both worked in a local bar however, while she was interested in Sean (Nick Robinson), Nate only had eyes for her and is still.
He’s a beacon of a bright spot in a dark sea and extends the hand of friendship at times when she is in need of it the most. He purchases Alex along with her little girl Maddy (Rylea Nevaeh Whittet) breakfast and then drives them to work. He demands that she carry the charger on her phone and instructs her to contact him if she has any issues, with fear soaking all over his face. Then, Nate lends Alex a car, which allows her to regain an element of autonomy. He’s the anti-Sean. when her latest housing arrangement fails, Alex and Maddy’s wind sleeping in his spare room, with their mother Paula (Qualley’s real mother, Andie MacDowell) with them.
It’s an oasis where the steaming, shepherd’s pie from the kitchen is set sitting on the table at the end of a lengthy, grueling day. the fridge is full of cold, refreshing beers. Most importantly, the rumbling voices and threats of violence are not present. Alex isn’t required to pull fragments of glass broken from Maddy’s hair. They’re secure. But lurking under that surface is the desire to know more about the possibility of love.
After the remnants of shepherd’s pie are taken off the plates and their children are snuggled in their beds, Nate asks Alex if she would like to go out to dinner and watch a movie. This isn’t the first time that he’s suggested the idea. But, once more her response remains unchanged: “I don’t think I could be with anyone at the moment.”
The problem is that not only is everything in Alex’s life in chaos She has only just a few dollars in her pockets at moment and is currently living without a place to live as well as emotionally vulnerable as evidenced by her decision to fall back in her bed with her abuser following her mother’s hospitalization.
Even though Alex isn’t able to offer Nate an elaborate explanation about how dire her situation is and the fact that she’s living with him, and sleeping in the spare bedroom of a man who’s not a family member, an acquaintance, or even a friend it’s a clear sign that she’s stuck in the battle.
Romance is the most distant thought out of her head and Nate must be attentive to this. Even if Alex isn’t able to express the intense emotions that are raging in her head, but prefers to write them down in her diary Her eyes reveal the pain she’s experienced and Nate should be aware of this.
“I do not think about it,” he says when Alex states that she would not be comfortable sitting at an eating area with him eating an appetizer together. They aren’t the same; they’re standing on totally different levels. She sees herself as a charity case and, consequently has shattered her confidence and sense of self-worth. He doesn’t think about the implications of that.
“I believe you’re a fan of me and I’m sure that I am a fan of you too,” the man adds.
Nate might be smart with books, However, but his emotional intelligence may be terribly deficient.
Nate isn’t Sean or Alex’s dad Hank (Billy Burke) Paula’s partner Basil (Toby Levins) or Sean’s closest friends Ethan (Xavier de Guzman) who is unable to condemn his actions. Nate doesn’t commit violence, yell in Alex’s face or sit on the sidelines while she scurries around in the dirt metaphorically. At the core of his actions was always the hope of something greater but when it’s ruined when Alex regrets that she stayed up late with Sean and he demands her to leave and move out. The truth isn’t worth it even though she’s not obligated to him with the details of her grisly experience, and it’s back at zero.
Alex said to Nate that she was not going to help him in the event of “strings be tied” However, despite his promise that his kindness should not be taken as a sign of disrespect and throwing Alex to the curb looked very much like that. The relationship between them was transactional after all, no matter if Nate thought it was or not. Nate would certainly consider himself a “nice person” and, in many ways, he’s. While he’s miles from Sean his behavior, has a bitter smell in the mouths of our friends.
