Why is the Netflix show “Maid” being so heavily promoted and platformed?

Are you aware that the lead actress in the show—a show ostensibly about the hamster wheel of poverty that so many women are caught up on—is also a spokeswoman/mascot for Chanel, one of the most exclusive luxury brands in the world, and the daughter of “Hollywood Royalty”?

Are you curious about the parallel narrative of the creation of the show itself, which is one of triumphalism and ultimately, rehabilitation via Hollywood (or rather, Netflix, which has now become the Hollywood of entertainment media)?

The show is, after all, based on a book that was published by an imprint of Hachette, one of the largest publishing houses in the world, and which is part of an international group of companies with operations in over 40 countries, focused on media, and which owns Paris Match, Virgin Radio, and numerous other corporations.

Why would a massive publishing house owned by a giant media conglomerate that generates gazillions of dollars through the perpetuation of hierarchies of dependency and misery have an interest in endorsing a story that reveals with such gritty realism, cycles of misogyny and destitution?

Netflix, of course, made 25 *billion* dollars in 2020.

But wait! The lead actress of “Maid” did announce on her Instagram feed that all the costumes were donated to a women’s shelter on Vancouver Island, where the show was filmed. 😂🙈

Does it seem interesting to you, that the companies that profit from our indolence, depression, despair, and the forms of consumption that go along with that (like sitting in front of the screen for 8 hours “bingeing” on a series about a young woman who can’t get ahead), are the same companies that have contributed to the orchestration of the current economic breakdown, which is the very reason so many of us feel we have the time to sit slack-jawed for hours on end in front of the tv?

What is it about the show “Maid” that those who have the most economic power and social influence in the world, want us to be exposed to and to absorb?

What is the underlying message that the producers of “Maid” are really trying to impart?

No, I don’t want to watch it, thanks.