Richard Gadd in Baby Reindeer (2004)
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Finished watching Netflix's BABY REINDEER in one go.
This show.
Not to trivialize it This "show" is actually seven episodes of an artist who flays himself open to examine the very real, extremely harrowing trauma of his past. Based on the award winning one-man play of the same name,
BABY REINDEER presents actor/comedian Richard Gadd's stalking journey to television. Playing a version of himself, Gadd stars as struggling comic by night/bartender by day Donny Dunn who becomes an object of obsession by customer Martha (Jessica Gunning) after her performs a kind gesture for her.
People are comparing it to HBO's Michaela Coel created I MAY DESTROY YOU, but to me the only similarity is that both shows - both created from the personal experiences of their creators - branch off into more than what the initial subject seems to be. BABY REINDEER deeply explores trauma and the guilt/shame/self-recrimination and overall destruction it can cause.
It's gut-wrenching, but a vital piece of work.
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Well wrap it up, because Richard Gadd just made one of the best shows, if not the best show, of the year with Baby Reindeer.
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Baby Reindeer is kinda amazing at being so brutal about the rape experience, especially about the aspects that come from being raped as a man by a man. The questions about your identity and if you brought it on yourself for just "giving off that vibe" and how admitting it even happened seems impossible: the ways one might cope it with all, many of them destructive.
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Watching baby reindeer is actually testing how much second hand embarrassment I can stand
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just watched baby reindeer
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Baby Rudolph 馃挅馃馃敂
Available as a greeting card!
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Baby reindeer
Photographed by Thomas Kruger
@crow1973 /Flickr
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Disney Story Doll - Elsa and Anna
Olaf with Elsa when today he is more attached to Anna. Anna with a baby reindeer when in fact the baby reindeer is linked to Elsa because her scene with Honeymaren at the campfire.
Commenting on the canon of the franchise in a doll kit... sorry I couldn't resist.
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"So I'm gonna stop running now. Because I just don't have the legs for it anymore. I just don't." - Richard Gadd, Baby Reindeer
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Go watch Baby Reindeer on Netflix. It鈥檚 cringey, heartbreaking, beautiful, and so well done.
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OMG just finished ep 3. I knew something would happened. Terri 馃槶 look at her scalp!!! Leave him, go to your friends. Call the police. You see how crazy Martha is. She is nuts. He is nuts for indulging her. No man is worth going through all that.
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