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They’re investigating a series of gruesome murders of women, seemingly punished for being negligent mothers. The Danish mystery stars Danica Curcic as inspector Thulin, paired uneasily with newcomer Hess (Mikkel Boe Følsgaard from Netflix’s sci-fi drama The Rain). Very much free of that sensation, and a good, gloomy watch to satisfy your cravings for both Halloween-y fare and dank, Eastern European procedural, The Chestnut Man (six episodes) is worth a look.
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Maid suffers from the slightly tinny, artificial tone and dramatic beats familiar from broadcast TV of that prestige kind.
Wells is the estimable name behind brands including ER and The West Wing. The series is the product of John Wells Productions. Here she relies on the broadest of strokes, playing a gargoyle character that, admittedly, is painted in big, dumb splashes by the script. The men in the show are all pretty awful.
Qualley’s Alex just feels a little too noble, unblemished, White, boring. It’s a decent, earnest show, but I only made it halfway through the series. And we feel every penny she can’t afford to spend. The show is good at introducing us to the exasperating, often contradictory labyrinths of the legal and social systems Alex has to navigate. With no skills but a yen to be a writer, stuck with an absentee father and a flaky, “artistic” mother (Qualley’s real-life mom, Andie MacDowell), Alex lands in a world of underpaid gigs by day, scrubbing houses (and their vile toilets), and by night she crashes with her kid in halfway homes (some nice, some sketchy) for women sheltering from abuse. She bolts one night with her toddler Maddy from the trailer they share with charming but dangerous-when-drunk boyfriend Sean (Nick Robinson). “Inspired by” Stephanie Land’s memoir about her experience living below the poverty line as a single mom, Maid (10 episodes) stars Margaret Qualley as Alex. But they share some thematic concerns, particularly on characters who can’t catch an economic break in our financially perilous times. gory Asian future-shock - couldn’t be much less alike. The two shows’ genres - workaday American realism vs. Maid hasn’t outstripped Squid Game’s popularity, but Netflix ranks it among the current top three of its most-watched original series.
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