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Baby Reindeer Recap: One Is the Loneliest Number
Everything up to now comes into dark, horrible focus as Donny reveals his past sexual trauma.
When Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You dropped in 2020, it was hailed as a bold work of art, an intelligent, deeply personal look at the impact of sexual assault on someone’s life and self-worth, all wrapped up in a kind of weird, funny package. As we learn in episode four, the wacky little Netflix series isn’t just some true-crime thriller about a stalker who ruins lives and relationships, but also an important look at what happens when a man is sexually assaulted, and — at least for Reindeer creator Richard Gadd — all the grooming and manipulation that led to it, and all the shame and self-immolation that came after. Or whether it’s Gadd’s voiceover later in the episode describing how he’d go on to pursue other reckless sexual situations, thinking that if he was raped again, it would shed the stigma of the first assault because he reasoned, nihilistically, that “it’s happened a ton of times now so what does it matter?”
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