Is Maid on Netflix a true story?
By Renee Hansen
Netflix viewers enjoy an excellent true story adaptation, and the streamer is happy to oblige. The most recent comes in the form of a Netflix original miniseries titled Maid.
In this series, Margaret Qualley plays the lead, Alex, and is joined by her real-life mother, Andie MacDowell, who plays Alex’s mother, Paula. Alex is a single mother who takes her daughter and leaves an abusive relationship to find it challenging to make ends meet on her wages as a housekeeper.
The series was released on Oct. 1, 2021, and it is already a massive hit on Netflix.
Is Maid a true story?
The Netflix original series is based on the memoir of Stephanie Land, titled Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive. She drew on her own experiences as a housekeeper making a meager $9 per hour to support herself and her daughter. She had aspirations of attending college and becoming a writer when she became pregnant after dating a guy for a few months. But, that relationship became abusive, and she took her child and went out on her own.
Land would eventually attend college and pen her memoir Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive, which turned into a 2019 bestseller. She then sold the right to Netflix, and producers John Wells and Margot Robbie worked to fictionalize the story to adapt to the series.
After attending and graduating from the creative writing program at the University of Montana, Land would do freelance writing and then a writing fellowship with the Center for Community Change.
We’re still waiting to find out if Maid season 2 will happen. It’s unlikely, but based on the popularity of the Netflix original series, it could happen if all the parties involved were interested in continuing this story.