Under a title that may seem comical or tender (My stuffed reindeer, Baby Reindeer in the original version), Netflix premiered the series directed by Weronika Tofilska and starring Richard Gadd and Jessica Gunning on April 11.
Although it was well received at its premiere, as the days have passed it has become a mass phenomenon. Currently, the seven-episode miniseries is in the top 1 in the ranking of the most viewed Netflix series in our country, which is why its plot has become one of the main topics of conversation on social networks.
The series presents the story of two characters: a failed comedian with self-esteem problems who works as a waiter and who has been the victim of various sexual assaults and a woman with other types of obsession problems who becomes attached to the former and begins to harass him without any problem. type of limit.
Although it is an ‘attractive’ or ‘juicy’ plot for the average viewer, expectations grew when it came to light that comedian Richard Gadd (creator and protagonist of the project) wrote said series based on his own traumatic experiences.
As can be seen throughout the different chapters, the protagonist lives a journey in which he goes through all kinds of feelings (guilt, shame, emotion, ego, grief, obsession…), so it is not about simply a miniseries that addresses the issue of harassment, but goes much further.
The victim of the crime gives the audience a sincere and raw testimony about how he handled the situation, about how he empathized with a person who was as broken as him and about how he came to feel disgust at himself for not being strong and determined on some occasions. . The project also talks about the desire to achieve fame, as well as romantic and family relationships and the pressure that many people feel to meet their own and other people’s expectations.
The creator of the miniseries is happy and pleased with the success it is achieving. However, he changed all the names to distance the fiction from his personal experience, which is why he does not agree that many viewers are now incessantly searching for the stalker, as reported by the Daily Mail.
”Please do not speculate about who the real-life people could be,” he asked on his social networks. It should be noted that many users have appreciated that the creator has presented ‘Martha’ (the stalker) from a point of view. human and sensitive view and that has moved away from the typical ‘demonizing’ cliché that can be seen in many other productions.
