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‘Baby Reindeer’s Richard Gadd & Jessica Gunning On The Radical Honesty Behind The Year’s Most Talked About TV Series: “It Would Be Of Benefit To Society If People Stop Being So Apparently Perfect All The Time”
Richard Gadd is doing his best to stay anonymous, though it’s no longer easy for him with the success, and controversies, surrounding Baby Reindeer.
With the tabloid press, particularly in their native Britain, stirring up reams of controversy, Joe Utichi travels across London to meet Gadd and Gunning, as they place their emphasis on the lives their show is changing for the better. Anyone who has seen Baby Reindeer, which tells a haunting story of the abuse and stalking Gadd faced when he was an aspiring comedian in his 20s, will understand his trepidation; there’s a sense life was probably a little like this for him even before the show’s outsized reception. There’s always an element of fate involved in a show catching the zeitgeist, but in the case of Baby Reindeer — or Squid Game was probably another example — there seems to be something about the penetration of the Netflix platform, and perhaps the algorithm, that is quite hard for anyone to understand or prepare for.
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