Baby Reindeer is billed as a darkly comic thriller about a man dealing with a stalker. In reality, it's a show about a man who just cannot get out of his own way. The main character is constitutionally incapable of making good decisions, or even neutral ones. Exhibit A: In episode 1, he meets a woman who is, from the word 'Go' quite clearly a quivering mass of psychological red flags teetering on the brink of madness. He then discovers that she's a compulsive liar who served four years in prison for stalking, beating up an old woman, more stalking, making false reports to child services, and, oh yeah, even more stalking. Ask yourself, what would a normal person do when confronted with that information? If you answered 'Friend the stalker on Facebook', you and the main character would probably get on famously. In fact, you'd probably end up stalking each other.
This is a show about a man who spends about six months repeatedly sledgehammering himself in the nuts and then complaining that his nuts hurt. If that's your cup of tea, I hope you enjoy it. Unfortunately, it wasn't mine, so I didn't.
This is a show about a man who spends about six months repeatedly sledgehammering himself in the nuts and then complaining that his nuts hurt. If that's your cup of tea, I hope you enjoy it. Unfortunately, it wasn't mine, so I didn't.