The seven-part thriller series follows the real-life story of comedian Gadd, who plays himself in the form of struggling Scottish comedian Donny Dunn as he deals with relentless stalker 'Martha'.
The internet is rife with speculation about the real-life stalker and real-life abuser from the Netflix hit. Is this show about exploitation starting to seem uncomfortably careless – even exploitative?Baby Reindeer was only released a little over a week ago, and already it has become a sensation. Richard Gadd’s adaptation of his 2019 Edinburgh festival one-man show, which in turn was a dramatisation of the ordeals he had been through at the hands of a stalker and a powerful abuser respectively,...
The identity of the woman who inspired Baby Reindeer's Martha Scott, a stalker who terrorises the show's main character, could have been better protected by the series, lawyers have claimed.