Just 'enjoyed' Baby Reindeer on Netflix..
Ooof. Strap yourselves in.
Jessica Gunnings performance as Martha is as brilliant as the whole thing is mad.
I thought it was very good... but a very hard watch - like a more harrowing version of Nighty Night. I kept pausing episodes to "decompress" for a few minutes before I felt fit to continue. At first, it was Martha's behaviour that did it - although that was fairly standard TV stalker / fanatic stuff in retrospect (not a million miles from Kathy Bates in Misery?). But later, what more got me was when the protagonist did something that would obviously make matters worse, and had me dreading the unpleasantness to come. He's the relationship equivalent of a horror film character that returns to the creepy house, when they could have driven away or got help, and insists on exploring alone with all the lights off.
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