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Baby Reindeer Does Something Remarkable
The Netflix drama grapples with the aftermath of abuse in an unprecedented way.
Baby Reindeer is shot and scored like a horror movie with disconcerting, unflattering close-ups and off-kilter angles; Donny is trapped both by Martha’s real-time surveillance and the emotional aftereffects of Darrien’s abuse in that strange red room. Like Baby Reindeer, I May Destroy You’s stars its writer and creator; both shows depict survivors of sexual violence attempting to piece together what happened to them and how and if to tell their stories; both end in ways that refuse simple bad-guy/good-guy dichotomies. I May Destroy You ’s finale, in which Arabella, a writer, explores three different fantasies on the page about confronting her rapist, “doesn’t offer sanitized closure so much as an evolution of the self that involves radical empathy for ourselves and others,” as Vulture critic Angelica Jade Bastién wrote in 2020.
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