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Maddy coughs Alex gets trapped Alex and Maddy walk out

This episode is definitely the best episode of this series so far. I loved the sense of mystery and thriller that was very distinct from the previous episodes, which were or less human drama with little elements that felt "creepy" as it did in this episode. I thought for a moment that the show has sort of lost touch on its initial main theme of abuse. However, the show successfully intertwined its primary theme of motherhood with abuse using Barefoot Billy's house as a thematic device. This eventually helped Alex realize that Hank was abusive towards Paula when she was young. Alex responds by rejecting the apparent kindness (most likely out of guilt) that Hank has shown when Alex and Maddy had nowhere to go due to the mold.

It was interesting to see the representation of generational abuse -and both Paula and Alex are battling that in their own ways. Honestly, this made me look Paula at a different light. She's gone through a lot, too. This brings up the topic of motherhood as well. Through Alex's lens, we see how motherhood is almost always a challenge that requires much sacrifice. What Alex and Maddy are going through are very real and plausible that the audience is drawn to the infuriating sequence of events and start rooting for them.

One thing I do want to point out is that sometimes music is a hit or miss on this show. Some of the pop backgrounds just didn't fit at all, especially towards the ending scene. But overall, very very solid.

This episode is so good. At some point, you feel like it's taking a strange path, as if the show had suddenly became one of these serial killers hunt movies - and it is strange, since you know you're watching a real-based drama story. But in real life our thoughts sometimes fly away from reality, exactly how Alex's were doing. Especially when our subconsciousness is trying to tell us something.

Every aspect of it is so clever: the way the show build her path into a hidden traumatic experience; the fact that both us and Alex already knew that there were a reason why she didn't like her father, even though this reason were unclear; and, finally, the way the show makes us find what happened alongside her.

Superb. Would rate 10 a million times.

And also: her Emmy tape could easily be the scene in which she yells at her father.

Maid (2021)

Series

1st Season

Episode Five - Ladrão

Buying products for work, a man teaching a woman how to be a mother, daycare that the child doesn't like, is there anything in this series that is even slightly "right"?

Out of nowhere it became a horror series (and a good one).

The twins are worthy of being demonic children in horror films.

Alex's father is a typical person who thinks that joining a religion will erase all the bad things he has done, and the sad thing is that some people who are already part of these religions believe that these people have changed.

I feared for Alex's mother, I was already connected with what she said about her new boy being the only one taking care of her finances.

I'm not an expert or anything, but the bipolar disorder that Alex's mother has must be because of the attacks she suffered, right? Too sad, so bipolarity helps her to "forget" these traumas.

Sad for Danielle, she is clearly afraid of the guy.

Episode five of the first season of the Maid Miniseries watched on May 23, 2024.

Rating: 10/10.