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- Netflix
- Mar 11, 2024
- Netflix
- Mar 11, 2024
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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94% Positive
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6% Mixed
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
88
94% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
6% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
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.
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.
“Baby Reindeer” might sometimes be a difficult, exhausting watch. Still, the unforeseen, often wounding journey is nonetheless unbelievably gripping in its confrontational exploration of all the destructive, harmful things we do in the name of self-approbation, even if it’s as simple as seeking a gratifying laugh. Gadd’s courageous, unflinching decision to reexamine the suffering of this excruciating time and ferociously interrogate it, his shame, guilt, remorse, and self-reproach, is essential and ultimately healing stuff.
While it's a difficult story, it's also one that is both beautifully told and important.
Intense and compelling. .... There is nothing pat or simplistic in the way Gadd lays it all out across seven half-hour episodes, and, most interestingly, there is very little self-righteousness afoot.
Over the series, the sheer onslaught of pain is difficult to endure, and what it gains in scope, it loses in focus. .... Eventually, this makes for frustrating viewing. Yet at the same time, it is original, compelling, and unforgettable.
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.
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 21 User Ratings
2.2
19% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
5% Mixed
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1 Rating
76% Negative
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 21 User Ratings
2.2
19% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
5% Mixed
1 Rating
1 Rating
76% Negative
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
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