Current Baby Reindeer - Stalking

[Kurve]

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.

 

[Pea Nut]

I had not heard of this story until today after watching this video of a guy I follow on YouTube.



He is a lawyer that specialises in Statement Analysis.

I am now going to watch the Netflix series. Having now already seen the Piers Morgan interview, it's plainly obvious that women is dead set crazy and would have done most, if not all that she is accused of.

 

[FIGJAM]

Fiona Harvey has made an appearance in a Piers Morgan interview where she denies ever going to prison, ever sending so many emails, never sending text messages etc and wants to sue Netflix, Richard and everybody else involved in it.

Sweet! I've been looking for a new defamation case and this will do just nicely.

41,000 emails is mind-boggling and he'd want to have the proof.

As for identification, if the British legal system has similar measures to here, they couldn't have done much of a worse job in not identifying her by casting a doppelgänger.

I feel like they have been a bit harder on the 'true story' marketing rather than 'based on a true' story that most other dramas do.

Good show though!

 

[The hands of stone]

Only watched the series last week at the urging of my wife , then saw this interview .

Think she was very poorly advised . Something isn't quite right there and Piers was able to just get her to flip on what she had said .

When she openly admitted to having 4-6 email addresses and saw that as normal . Well it was all downhill from there , if it already wasn't

 

[FIGJAM]

Netflix boss misled parliament over truth of Baby Reindeer story, MP claims

A Scottish National Party MP wants the streaming giant to substantiate its claims that a stalker who inspired the fictional character was convicted.

www.theage.com.au

I still reckon they'll regret the "A Real Life Happening" angle.

 

[craffles]

Richard Gadd has his own history of sexual assault allegations and is by his own admission during
baby reindeer not the most mentally well person.

I usually lean towards the truth is somewhere in the middle and I think this applies to his version of events and Fiona Harvey’s. No way she goes on record with Piers Morgan if everything Gadd put in the show is 100% correct but she also came across as someone that the media and society should leave alone.

TLDR; I think they are both deeply troubled human beings who should not be in the spotlight.

 

[faible]

Was a fascinating watch, obviously some dramatic license has been taking and I do think 'based on a true story' would have been a better tag line given some of the events have been admitted to be fabricated.

I do think she's genuinely done a significant amount of what the show accused her of, and that's she's not mentally all there, that interview was an absolute train wreck.

 

[Kurve]

Was a fascinating watch, obviously some dramatic license has been taking and I do think 'based on a true story' would have been a better tag line given some of the events have been admitted to be fabricated.

I do think she's genuinely done a significant amount of what the show accused her of, and that's she's not mentally all there, that interview was an absolute train wreck.

I think she should be paid out to go away, enough to get the right help if she needs it and try to live her best life.