Looking For A Gritty Show? Netflix’s Latest Documentary Is A Must Watch
When it comes to bingeable documentaries, Netflix is always consistent. From Harry & Meghan to Pamela: A Love Story, they release hit after hit. One of their latest documentaries that’s grabbed our attention is Take Care Of Maya, which focuses on the story of a ten-year-old girl admitted to hospital with a rare illness. Things turn sinister as her parents are apparently cut off from contact with their daughter, and the doc is a harrowing but powerful look at child welfare systems.
Here’s why you should watch Take Care Of Maya
Maya Kowalksi is a ten-year-old girl with a rare and painful illness: complex regional pain syndrome or CRPS. But when she was admitted to a children’s hospital in 2016, all that she and her family know is that she has a severe stomach ache. She’s soon diagnosed with a difficult and complicated condition, that is not fully understood by medical experts, and her condition continues to worsen over the next few weeks.
Maya’s condition leads the doctors at the John Hopkins All Children’s Hospital to accuse her parents of child abuse, claiming that her mother Beata had in fact faked the condition as a result of mental illness in order to get attention. As a result of the allegation, Maya is separated from her family, and the separation devastates her mother and family.
take care of maya arrives on netflix in june
Take Care of Maya recounts and examines these events, and how a broken childcare system led to Maya being taken into custody and her mother eventually taking her own life. It features the members of the Kowalksi family telling their story and the ordeal in their own words, and how they were eventually reunited with the seriously ill Maya. The documentary is being screened by Netflix at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York before it’s released on streaming, and aims to shine a light on child care in the US can often be very unbalanced and unfairly harsh on parents. The doctors, led by Dr Sally Smith, believed that they were justified in the measures they took, but the Kowalskis and their lawyers say otherwise. The documentary is a sad watch, but one that is illuminating and revealing all the same. It arrives on Netflix in June.