Baby Reindeer is currently the most watched TV title on Netflix but some fans are taking the real life story of a stalker and the man she stalked too far.
Baby Reindeer , the Netflix limited series from comedian Richard Gadd , has become an unlikely hit for the streaming service. In two weeks on the platform the series racked up 52,800,000 hours watched. It's currently the most watched TV title globally.The true story is centred around struggling comedian Donny Dunn who enters into a tangled relationship with Martha, a stalker who would end up sending him 40,000 emails and leaving hundreds of hours of voice messages over a few years.
Martha starts coming into the pub every day to tell Donny fantastical lies about her career as a lawyer to the stars. She lavishes attention on Donny that is not entirely rejected. Martha begins to send Donny dozens of emails a day, they take a darkly sexual turn after Donny is peer pressured into lewd banter by his brash workmates.For seven episodes Donny and Martha continue their disturbing dance, with the former always insisting he demands distance.
The rest of the series revolves around Donny finally removing himself from Martha's grasp and also coming to grips with the trauma lying in his past.Yes, but with a caveat. Gadd did indeed deal with an older woman who stalked him for a period of six years, leaving him 41,071 emails, 744 tweets and 350 hours of voicemails.
They are all women that numerous social media users have identified as "the real Martha". Multiple TikToks with millions of views and tens of thousands of likes dredge up old tweets and court cases to validate their finger pointing. But it's not just the real Martha the internet desperately seeks, it's the real Teri and the real Darrian, the high-profile figure that assaulted Gadd in real life. Internet detectives soon falsely accused British director Sean Foley of being the real life Darrian. The accusations got so strong that Gadd had to publicly dispel the rumours.
"We tend to forget that people can be victims and perpetrators, and that many people who hurt others have been hurt themselves in a range of ways.", Gadd expresses the fear he felt when he was first performing Baby Reindeer for live audiences. He worried that people wouldn't believe him, would say he encouraged Martha, that his sexual assault wouldn't be seen as 'valid' but feedback confirmed that crowds were as morally confused and moved by his story as he was.
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