A stalker walks into a London pub and makes life hell for a bartender.
A stalker walks into a London pub and makes life hell for a bartender who offers her tea and sympathy. Big mistake. After 41,000 emails, hundreds of tweets, and 350 hours of voicemails, the barkeep—she calls him "baby reindeer" after her cuddly childhood toy—runs for his life.
What do you do with such trauma? If you're Richard Gadd, 35, a struggling Scottish stand-up comic in his 20s in 2015 when he says he was stalked, you create a one-man show—with illustrative props— starring a semi-fictionalized version of yourself who you call Donny Dunn."Baby Reindeer" is now a must-see, top-rated Netflix phenom, with new viewers joining every day to examine each of its seven half-hour episodes with the forensic focus of a crime scene, which it definitely is.
It's a compulsively riveting tour de force from Gadd whose earlier solo show, "Monkey See Monkey Do," is also incorporated into the series, drawn from Gadd's account of being groomed, drugged and sexually assaulted by an older TV writer. The fictionalized Darrien O'Connor pretends to be his mentor and assaults Donny. Episode 4 details that abuse, and it's enough to give you nightmares.
While the show describes itself as a "true story" in the opening, it adds in the credits, "This program is based on real events: however certain characters, names, incidents, locations, and dialogue have been fictionalized for dramatic purposes."going on to find the real Martha and Darrien. "That was never the point," Gadd has said. But gossips will gossip, clouding the core of truth that makes "Baby Reindeer" such a twisted spellbinder.
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