Baby Reindeer

Donny Dunn, a struggling stand-up comedian, tries to keep his life steady after a small kindness toward a vulnerable woman starts to spiral out of control. That single moment pulls him into a prolonged, invasive attention that leaks into his work, relationships, and sense of safety. The series alternates between onstage material and offstage encounters, showing how humor and fear can sit uncomfortably close. As the situation intensifies, the story watches how ordinary choices and misunderstandings escalate into an unsettling pattern, concentrating on emotional fallout and the ways reputations and private lives fray under pressure, without revealing how everything ends.

Created by Richard Gadd and released in 2024, Baby Reindeer stars Richard Gadd as Donny Dunn, with Jessica Gunning as Martha Scott and Nava Mau as Teri. The show mixes scenes of live performance with intimate dramatic beats to shape its distinctive rhythm.

The series prompted a lot of online conversation about obsession, boundaries, and how media portrayals shape sympathy and blame. Viewers debated the ethics of storytelling when real experiences feed fiction, and the show became a frequent talking point on social platforms for how it makes audiences uncomfortable while staying watchable.

Audience ratings reflect strong engagement, with a 7.602/10 average from 1,045 votes, and many conversations focused on the lead performance and tonal choices. Central themes include the porous line between kindness and danger, the weight of male vulnerability, the corrosive effects of unresolved fixation, and the uneasy marriage of comedy and menace. The show doesn't offer easy answers, and it often asks the viewer to sit with awkwardness, contradiction, and the cost of attention.