Many are becoming passionate about the Baby Reindeer series, but what is true and what happened to Martha in reality? Here’s what you need to know.
Since April 11th you can immerse yourself in the plot full of twists and turns Baby Reindeerone television series landed on the platform Netflix with 7 episodes, which tells the story true story (fictional) by comedian Richard Gadd. The TV series is written by Gadd himself and directed by Weronika Tofilska and tells the stories of stalking experienced by the protagonist.
The 7 episodes show how Donny Dunnthe fictionalized version by Richard Gadd, has moved to London from Scotland to be able to realize his dream of becoming one stand-up comedian. However, his life takes a completely different turn when he meets Martha Scottthe stalker from the TV series played by Jessica Gunning.
It all started when Donny offers Martha a cup of tea and she decides to introduce herself every day at the pub where Donny works, by attend his shows and to get started follow him everywhere he goes, doing it gifts of dubious nature And bombarding him with messages both written and vocal. This story went on for four and a half years and the TV series highlights theanxiety and the paranoia shown by both Martha and Donny.
The season finale shows how woman is sentenced to nine months in prison with a five-year restraining order and right in the last scene of the seventh episode we can see Donny Dunn walking down the street and that listen to the audio again that Martha sent him focusing on the most lovely. In particular, the man listens carefully to the audio in which the woman explains the reason behind it nickname who gave him: ‘baby reindeer‘, that is to say ‘little reindeer‘.
An obsession reciprocated
In the four and a half years of stalking, Richard Gadd said in the numerous interviews he took part in that he had received more than 41,000 emails, over 350 hours of voice messages, 744 posts on X (new name for Twitter), 46 messages on Facebook, 106 pages of letters written in his own hand and several special giftsincluding one toy reindeer and gods sleeping pills.
The TV series highlights how theMartha’s obsession manages to creep into Donny’s mind who, after the woman’s conviction, can no longer stop thinking about her and makes him feel in a state of mind atypical don’t have her around. Both thehabit of his presencewhich when Martha is confined Donny feels lost And abandoned. In fact, in the final scene we see him listening to the most loving audios of her, as if he wanted to look for a sort of comfort.
What happened to the real Martha
As Richard Gadd has said several times, the story told in the TV series is based on his experience but there have been many events fictionalized. Starting with Martha herself Even today we still don’t know who he really is or what happened to him. However, Gadd made clear a very relevant aspect of this matter.
In the TV series the stalker is convicted but in real life Richard Gadd didn’t even reveal the his real name and he implied that she didn’t even end up in prison. The author of the series revealed that he had no intention of having a person who was in prison convicted that psychic statehighlighting how the situation was no longer so serious and admitting that he feels gods mixed feelings towards women. In other words, it’s as if Richard Gadd suffered from Stockholm syndrome and fell in love with his persecutor.
