Margaret Qualley & Nick Robinson in Strange But True (2019), Native Son (2019), & MAID (2021)

Now i want to see them in a full length romance film please

@crowsfault // To Write Love On Her Arms // reikacchan // "This Year" (The Mountain Goats) // Maid (2021) // "Fight Song" (Rachel Platten)

Andie MacDowell as Paula Langley in Maid (2021)

Maid needs to get a lil more popular on here so I can talk to people about my sad, complicated, and fucked up feelings about sean

hello everyone i just watched Maid on netflix all the way through and it will not leave my brain and i just keep thinking about the difference between Paula telling Alex how much she loves her by saying “I would give you the skin off my bones” vs Hank telling her “I’d give you the shirt off my back”

Paula loves Alex so terribly wholly and to her core (despite how she behaves) that she would give her anything and everything she has, even if all there’s left to give is her own flesh. But Hank, he doesn’t know Alex, he doesn’t understand her. He may love her due to her being his daughter, but at the end of the day all he has left for her is superficial, it’s being polite. He’d give her the shirt off his back, but he can just go get another shirt and he’ll forget about that other one in no time.

I just loved that little detail, it tells so much and everything we need to know about the dynamics and ties together all the pieces that had built it up.

“I’m going to tell her that the M stands for Maddy. That this whole new world is for her.”

I am not okay

maid is such a good show but the fact that people will say alex “made all the wrong decisions” when she left the first time really irks me. when she left the first time she had no reliable support system, no money, no way to reconnect herself to the rest of the world. leaving was the best and most correct decision she could have made, and everything that followed was her doing her best and taking all the necessary steps to ensure freedom for herself and maddy. of course she fucked up a few times and wasn’t perfect but she’s a human being. Those decisions and connections she made were what eventually led to her being able to leave again and finally get her freedom. so i guess just stop blaming her for not navigating the broken systems perfectly and instead criticize the systems for making it so difficult for abuse victims to keep their feet on the ground.

started maid on netflix

ok, so when i first watched netflix’s maid, i was getting super irritated with how alex wouldn’t tell shaun that her dad used to beat her mum— because i thought that shaun would immediately back off, and understand why alex doesn’t want to associate with her dad. i was like, why wouldn’t you just tell him? explain to him? but rewatching, i think i understand. if she has to explain to shaun why she doesn’t trust her dad rather than shaun just trusting her, there’s no point anyway. he doesn’t trust her when she tells him explicitly, pleads with him even, that her dad is a bad person. despite outward appearances. and he still doesn’t listen to her— because he simply doesn’t care. in shaun’s eyes, alex’s dad’s history of domestic abuse wouldn’t matter, because that’s in the past. her dad’s trying now, and that’s all that matters. but that’s not okay, and alex knows that— because if she has to beg and bargain for understanding from shaun about something so deeply serious, then maybe he’s just not worth it.

Margaret Qualley & Nick Robinson in MAID (2021) | EP. 7 

There's just so many things i adore about the show Maid:

It's insistence that you don't need to have been physically hurt to leave. The second time she leaves that bowl doesn't hit her. Doesn't matter. It could have. And so she leaves.

DV victims can go back to their abusers and still be deserving of leaving them again. This show is so agressive in the way of doing this, showing us and telling us of multiple characters who go back to their abusers, and some who eventually leave. The show also explicitly tells you that it's okay to try again and again through Denise.

The clear outline of how difficult it often is to get housing or figure stuff out when you don't have a job or housing.

How the show shows abusers as people. Sean is a complicated person. He's sometimes sober. He's helped Alex deal with her mother. Doesn't make her not a victim. He's an alcoholic. He's thrown stuff at her. He's treated her with aggression. He's still an abuser.

I'll edit more as i remember

MARGARET QUALLEY as ALEX RUSSELL

Netflix’s MAID | S1, E7 “String Cheese”

i’m on the last ep of maid n this show is so heartbreaking 🥺

Maid and The Crowded Room:

God, really don't know how to feel about Candy.

I do think it was important to show how Candy was/is a victim too. How the mind of a person whose gone through repeated emotional/ physical? abuse can feel guilty, how they prefer the familiar danger, how they want to feel safe, how it's a cycle for them. But I can't help but think about how everyone has consciousness, how we shoudn't be slave to our fears.

And that leads me to "Maid" which is a netflix series tackling domestic abuse, specifically emotional and financial abuse. And how the main character is at first in denial of the abuse, as most victims are, bc it wasn't physical. How she goes to a dv help centre, looks after her child, works her ass of so they'd have food to eat, she in many cases is shown to actually live (as she herself said) for her daughter. One the more memorable scenes is when she decides to leave Shon (her abusive bf) while he treatens her, and she says to him: " I'm very well aware. But at least I'm not gonna pick up glass off of Maddy's (her daughter) hair, again. It's just not gonna happen. "And leaves, she leaves despite not having anything on her back, she leaves bc she never ever wanted her daughter to go through sth remotly similar.

I say all that bc I can't help but wonder, where was Candy's devotion to Danny?

i wish this white girl would recognize a good thing when it’s cooking her shepard’s pie and asking if she likes her salad wet