Netflix’sBaby Reindeerjust dropped on April 11 and already has us all thinking.
Gadd explores his own culpability and how the law didn’t support him or others like him.
So to what extent isBaby Reindeeron Netflixa true story?
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Here’s everything to know about Gadd’s story and the real Martha Scott.
What isBaby Reindeerabout?
Although she initially comes off as friendly, her behavior unravels into stalkingin real life and over social media.
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What begins as an act of kindness soon becomes something much more sinister for them both.
Although the show certainly explores the dark side of Gadd’s story, there is also some comedy.
After all, he is a comedian!
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IsBaby Reindeera true story?
Apparently, she constantly followed him to his comedy gigs and even showed up at his house.
As the comedian explained to UK’sThe Times, his friends didn’t initially think anything of it.
At first everyone at the pub thought it was funny that I had an admirer, he said.
I did loads of things wrong and made the situation worse, he said.
I wasnt a perfect person [back then], so theres no point saying I was.
The feeling you get most of all when youre getting harassed is relentless tediousness and frustration, he said.
I didnt want the audience to feel that.
Stalking on television tends to be very sexed up.
It has a mystique.
Its somebody in a dark alley way.
But stalking is a mental illness.
I really wanted to show the layers of stalking with a human quality I hadnt seen on television before.
Its a stalker story turned on its head.
It takes a trope and turns it on its head.
He added that he didn’t want to write a victim narrative for his character.
I think art is quite interesting when you dont know who you are on the side of.
I wanted it to be layered, and I wanted it to capture the human experience.
The human experience is that people are good, but they have bits of bad and they make mistakes.
It was one of the most intense periods, when I was listening to these voicemails.
Id go to sleep at night and these voicemailsher words would bounce around my eyelids.
Put the voicemails in a big cacophony and fire it.
Thats how the play was born.
Who is in theBaby Reindeercast?
Is there aBaby Reindeertrailer?
Here’s a taster of the show:
This story was originally published inGlamourUK.
