- Dec 27, 2016
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Baby Reindeer is a hugely successful Netflix series. It starts with a small act of kindness that led to three years of stalking and harassment.
Presented as the true story of Richard Gadd as the victim Donny, and Martha the stalker who was ultimately sentenced to nine months in prison for stalking and harassment. Martha has subsequently been identified in real life as Fiona Harvey.
The real life Fiona Harvey is now herself being stalked and bombarded with death threats and abuse since the show aired.
In the series, Martha's character delivers as a relentless and obsessive stalker, responsible for bombarding Donny with 40,000 emails, voice mails, letters, sexually assaulting Donny, the harassment of Donny's parents, the assault of Donny's psychotherapist girlfriend and disrupting his live comedy shows.
Donny isn't without his own issues, his live stand up comedy routines are a flop and he takes some desperate measures continuing a destructive, drug fuelled relationship with a powerful man on the promise of helping Donny 'make it' in comedy.
In the series, when Donny's had enough of Martha he reports the stalking to the police but has trouble getting them to believe it so he resorts to setting Martha up in order to get the evidence on her.
Fiona Harvey has made an appearance in a Piers Morgan interview where she denies ever going to prison, ever sending so many emails, ever sending text messages etc and wants to sue Netflix, Richard and everybody else involved in it.
The internet is buzzing with questions of who's lying and whether Fiona Harvey has a serious mental health condition, which Gadd has promoted.
It's an interesting series, a great study of stalking and the impact, if pretty intense.
Presented as the true story of Richard Gadd as the victim Donny, and Martha the stalker who was ultimately sentenced to nine months in prison for stalking and harassment. Martha has subsequently been identified in real life as Fiona Harvey.
The real life Fiona Harvey is now herself being stalked and bombarded with death threats and abuse since the show aired.
In the series, Martha's character delivers as a relentless and obsessive stalker, responsible for bombarding Donny with 40,000 emails, voice mails, letters, sexually assaulting Donny, the harassment of Donny's parents, the assault of Donny's psychotherapist girlfriend and disrupting his live comedy shows.
Donny isn't without his own issues, his live stand up comedy routines are a flop and he takes some desperate measures continuing a destructive, drug fuelled relationship with a powerful man on the promise of helping Donny 'make it' in comedy.
In the series, when Donny's had enough of Martha he reports the stalking to the police but has trouble getting them to believe it so he resorts to setting Martha up in order to get the evidence on her.
Fiona Harvey has made an appearance in a Piers Morgan interview where she denies ever going to prison, ever sending so many emails, ever sending text messages etc and wants to sue Netflix, Richard and everybody else involved in it.
The internet is buzzing with questions of who's lying and whether Fiona Harvey has a serious mental health condition, which Gadd has promoted.
It's an interesting series, a great study of stalking and the impact, if pretty intense.