Baby Reindeer
Season 1 Premiere:
Apr 11, 2024
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
88
User score
Generally Favorable
7.3
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
94% Positive
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May 2, 2024
100
Gunning’s performance is a large part of what makes the show the horrifying and addictively compelling thing it is. Particularly haunting is her squeal-like laugh, which perfectly encompasses the duality of Martha’s innocence and unhinged brutality. This, coupled with Gadd’s devastating portrayal of a man both traumatized by and dependent on his abusers’ approval and attention, make for a thorny but nuanced interrogation of trauma, power, and empathy.
Apr 11, 2024
100
One of the show's greatest strengths is how it's able to balance such challenging subject matter with inspired flashes of humour. .... This is an early contender for show of 2024.
User score
Generally Favorable
74% Positive
236 Ratings
236 Ratings
16% Mixed
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10% Negative
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
Sep 10, 2024
10
this was so heart-wrenching to watch. it really highlighted again that people in power sometimes really cant help you in time of need
Jul 22, 2024
10
This show is absolutely gorgeous. Well, it has so muchémotionsat the same time. The characters are profunds and it's so well written. Idk how much autobiographical is it but hey, you have to watch it.
May 17, 2024
90
This new Netflix series phenom that viewers can’t stop talking about stars an astonishing Richard Gadd as a struggling Scottish comic who shapes his life as the victim of a stalker (a dynamite Jessica Gunning) into a twisted spellbinder that deserves serious Emmy love.
Apr 23, 2024
90
While it's a difficult story, it's also one that is both beautifully told and important.
Sep 10, 2024
80
What a vivid watch: a veritable operetta of trauma. While Gadd holds his own, Gunning is stunning: in her hands, Martha is as vulnerable as she is terrifying.
Apr 11, 2024
80
This is twisty, mature, self-interrogating stuff that will leave you more troubled than tickled.
Apr 11, 2024
60
It’s a complex, at times self-defeating portrait of a mind eating itself alive. It’s not fun and it’s not meant to be – that’s admirable as art, perhaps less so as entertainment.
Jun 5, 2024
10
The best series I've seen recently. I was hooked from start to finish. The fact that this is based on a true story... pushes even more incredulity (and fascination in a certain way) in front of the hero's **** addition, the acting is very convincing.
Jul 1, 2025
6
In a season of just eight episodes, an already impressive story is overcomplicated by multiple plots.
May 12, 2024
6
A frustrating and disturbing watch, which is probably the intention but as an exposé on a male victim it seems to lose itself in many other narratives, as if the show wants us to dislike the victim and feel empathy for the perpetrator.
Feb 2, 2026
3
Sigh, so brave. NOT. It actually started promising. Turns out this is a pathetically pompous identity politics piece, played out in a pretentious, plodding pastiche of self-portraitures of the "artiste" as a repugnant narcissist posturing as perpetual victim. I like the Scottish accents, though.
Feb 10, 2025
3
The series seems to be interesting until the homosexual scenes appear, as Netflix likes to do, which make you sick to your stomach.
