With the sudden boom of independent streaming services, Netflix has been ordering tons of new original shows and movies to its platform to overcome the competition. One of these new series is under development, written by the writer of Orange is the New Black’s and Shameless, Molly Smith Metzler, and produced by John Wells and Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap.
Based on the New York Times best-selling book by Stephanie Land, the series “will chronicle a single mother who turns to housekeeping to—barely—make ends meet as she battles against poverty, homelessness, and bureaucracy. Told primarily through her point of view, Maid will be a beautiful, alive, gritty, and inspiring exploration of poverty in America.”