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Baby Reindeer
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Baby Reindeer is a 2024 Mini Series that aired on Netflix about Donny Dunn (Richard Gadd), an unsuccessful comedian who extends a moment of kindness to a mentally unwell woman called Martha (Jessica Gunning). However, when Martha starts stalking Donny, it places him on a collision course with some dark memories from his past.It is, tragically, Based on a True Story of Gadd's life. | |
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Ambiguous Situation: It's unclear in Donny's final meeting with Darrien if Darrien remembers that he sexually assaulted Donny and is simply implying he doesn't remember to avoid a confrontation, given that Donny spoke graphically about being raped. If one believes that he was telling the truth, it's left ambiguous if he doesn't remember due to the huge amount of drugs he taking, or if it's a But for Me, It Was Tuesday situation. | |
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Rape and Switch | |
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Rape and Switch: Discussed. Donny has a girlfriend, Keeley, when he's raped by his would-be mentor, Darrien, a man. He discovers that he's attracted to men (and trans women) in the aftermath, and struggles with knowing if he is this way "because" he was raped by a man or not, or if he asked for his rape due to his sexuality. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: A very dark example. Martha lies blatantly to Donny's face about her life, claiming to be friends with politicians and showing him clearly photoshopped pictures. One of the early signs of her mental illness is the extent to which she believes her own lies. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Donny's parents accept that he was raped and show unquestioning sympathy and acceptance for him. His life improves significantly after he moves back in with Keeley's mum, and his career also sees a breakthrough. Martha is found guilty of stalking Donny and Donny is granted a restraining order, finally giving him some vindication for Martha's vicious stalking campaign. On the bitter side, Donny doesn't end up with Terri or Keeley, Darrien never faces justice for raping Donny, Donny feels sympathy for Martha, as he recognizes she needs major help that she still won't and can't get, especially from prison, and Donny has still been through a long and painful ordeal. | |
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Painting the Medium | |
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Painting the Medium: Every Episode Title Card is a text or email from Martha, ending with the Title Drop of "baby reindeer", as that is her nickname for him. | |
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Rape as Backstory: Episode 4 reveals that Donny was raped by a would-be mentor, Darrien. Episode 7 has Donny's father Gerry responding to Donny's disclosure of his sexual abuse by saying "I was raised in the Catholic Church", essentially confirming that he was molested as a child, probably by a Pedophile Priest. | |
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Bookends | |
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Bookends: The story starts and ends with someone receiving a free drink from a sympathetic barman. | |
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Affably Evil | |
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Affably Evil: A very dark example when it comes to Darrien, who always acts like an ordinary and understanding person even as he's psychologically abusing Donny. | |
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Pedophile Priest | |
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Episode 7 has Donny's father Gerry responding to Donny's disclosure of his sexual abuse by saying "I was raised in the Catholic Church", essentially confirming that he was molested as a child, probably by a Pedophile Priest. | |
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Gilligan Cut | |
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Gilligan Cut: Liz offers Donny her deceased son's yellow jacket, but Donny says he won't wear it. Cut to Donny wearing the jacket while on the bus. | |
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Trans Chaser | |
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Trans Chaser: Donny has a profile on a trans dating site but is deeply ashamed of it. | |
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Politically Incorrect Villain: Martha warns Donny to steer clear of Asian people and later goes on a rant about how she thinks all Asians are criminals. | |
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Nested Story Reveal | |
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Nested Story Reveal: The final episode reveals that the story, at least in theory, was created after Donny deleted the information about Martha following her conviction, and tried to write about what he'd been through. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Both Keeley and Teri are understandably furious at Donny over his inability to deal with Martha and blame him for almost ruining their lives, to the point of referring to him as an attention seeker and criticizing his cowardy and lack of manhood. Donny even gives one to himself while venting his guilt to the audience who came to his latest gig in Episode 6. Given Martha's dark nature, it's really hard to blame them, especially Teri, who was the most affected due to her gender identity. | |
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Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds | |
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Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Donny regards Martha as one in-universe, as she is clearly violent and disturbed and causes great stress to Donny and his loved ones, but she has gone through a great deal of pain in her life. He shows sympathy for her even after she sexually assaults him. | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic: Martha was actually heavily toned down from her real-life inspiration. The show had to do so because otherwise she'd be totally unbelievable as a character despite being a real person. | |
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Broken Pedestal | |
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Broken Pedestal: Donny is raped by his absolute icon, Darrien. | |
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Abhorrent Admirer | |
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Abhorrent Admirer: Occasionally played straight. The deconstruction of this is, arguably, the whole point. | |
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Did Not Get the Girl | |
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Did Not Get the Girl: Donny ends up with neither Teri or Keeley, though Keeley does help him out at the last minute. | |
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Stalker with a Crush | |
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Stalker with a Crush: Martha becomes obsessed with Donny and sexually harasses him with messages, going so far as to grope him by the canal. | |
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Whole Episode Flashback | |
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Whole Episode Flashback: Aside from the opening couple of minutes of Donny reporting Martha for stalking him, Episode 4 is a flashback that shows Donny's life before that, specifically his rape by a would-be mentor and his drug addiction. | |
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Amicable Exes | |
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Amicable Exes: Donny ends up ruining both of his relationships with Keeley and Teri respectively, mainly due to his inability to get past the trauma of his abuser Darrien and stalker Martha. As of Episode 7, Keeley shows some sympathy over Donny's wellbeing and asks him to move back to her mother's apartment after watching his gig video that went viral and learning that Martha has finally been sentenced. Subverted with Teri, who leaves Donny to grapple with the consequences of his actions on his own and has already started seeing someone else. | |
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Tragic Villain | |
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Tragic Villain: Martha is a mentally unwell woman who is stalking Donny, violently attacks his girlfriend (being very transphobic), and makes them all feel very unsafe. However, Donny finds out that she is highly educated and clearly had some kind of complete mental breakdown earlier in her life that caused her to be this way. | |
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Hope Spot | |
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Hope Spot: Donny's career starts looking up after he has a breakdown on stage, leading to podcast appearances and better work opportunities. Then Martha gets hold of his phone number... | |
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Cerebus Syndrome | |
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Cerebus Syndrome: The story goes from (still dark) Cringe Comedy to disturbing drama during the fourth episode. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
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What the Hell, Hero?: Unsurprisingly, Donny is at the receiving of this by Teri and Keeley for failing to report Martha to the police when he had the chance, and understandably blame him for having brought her into their lives, especially after Martha assaulted both of them out of malicious jealousy. Even Liz and the officer whom Donny was trying to report Martha to call him out on this. | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: The Inciting Incident is Donny giving Martha a cup of tea for free, after she comes into the pub looking upset. From that moment, she becomes obsessed with him and stalks him relentlessly. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: "Sent from my iPhone." Martha does not have an iPhone, and yet signs every single message (of which there are thousands) with "sent from my iPhone." As she becomes increasingly unstable, she makes increasingly egregious spelling mistakes, but she never stops writing it. | |
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