Netflix's "Reindeer Baby" is based on a true story, the main character is a Scottish comedian (so Richard Gad himself is the screenwriter of the show), and the show has a total of seven episodes (each episode is about half an hour long), although the plot of this show is absurd, but it is also very realistic and soul-provoking!
Is the evaluation of the series "Reindeer Baby" good? Here can be a conclusion first, this album is "so special"! Personally, I recommend this album, because it is so special that you will unconsciously keep wanting to watch what will happen to the male protagonist and how to deal with the stalking of the stalker! This is not the general "stalked" story we imagined, the audience will see more "psychological" speculation in this play, and also use the "psychology" of the male protagonist to explore this stalking incident! Do you think that being stalked may only be fear? "Reindeer Baby" is a work that will give you a very different "inside" of the "stalker"!
Netflix series "Reindeer Baby" movie review and plot introduction
The story of "Reindeer Baby" is actually not only about Richard Gad himself being stalked by a stalker, but also about the various traumas he has been escaping from in the past, and the story will also revolve around his loneliness and vulnerability as a boy being harassed and stalked, and even satirizes the attitude and behavior of the police system towards male harassers~ In other words, even if this series is a tone of black humor, it is classified as "psychological" by Netflix The type of elements also makes sense, as the author Charlie Gad himself said, life is like this, full of psychological discussions between people.
The plot of "Reindeer Baby" is mainly about the male protagonist "Donnie", a failed comedian, who works part-time as a bartender, and he is very kind to cheer for a sad woman "Martha", which turns out to be Downey's most terrible nightmare in the future. "Reindeer Baby" is different from other works that depict "stalking", usually we ordinary people will always feel terrible about the events of the stalker, and think about how the protagonist should escape and get rid of it, especially maybe we will expect the director to always show the fear and escape process of the stalker, but this drama is an alternative way to change the perspective of such a stalker story to deeply think about the lonely story of the protagonist himself.
Throughout the series, the audience will see Charlie Gad's honesty about the incident, which is not to show his fear in the form of blaming the stalker, but to explore a certain "vulnerability" in his own heart that he is not aware of, and a perfunctory satire on the harassment of men in this society. The twisted relationship between "stalker" and "victim" between Donnie and Martha is perfectly shown, as well as Donnie's grotesque attachment to Martha's crazy way (or the fault and loneliness that Downey himself dare not face).
Just from "Reindeer Baby", you can clearly feel that Martha's stalking brings Donnie all kinds of depression and collapse, Martha is like "infiltrating" Downey's life, ubiquitous, every minute and every second in Donnie's sight! In the first three episodes of the series, almost all of Donnie's various perspectives and tricks in the face of Martha's stalking, I really like the soundtrack of this show, that kind of weirdness with Martha's stalker's various "uncomfortable" expressions, the audience can clearly feel how caught off guard in Donnie's heart!
In some way, the first three episodes of the plot are to bring out the views and attitudes of men as victims of stalking in this society, women are stalked and most of the victims in this society, but what about men? Do the society and the public also treat men as equals? In fact, according to the data, the victims of sexual violence, abuse, stalking, harassment, and rape were not really taken seriously until 1995, so in the first three episodes of "Reindeer Baby", the audience will find through Downey's "insecurity" perspective, ironically suggesting that the recognition and seriousness of male victims in this society may still need to be publicized and valued.
The series and story of "Reindeer Baby" is really an alternative stalker story, and the dark humor elements in it will definitely make the audience like it! The tormented mind is shown in a beautiful dark way, Donnie's dependence on Martha is both afraid and poked at the fragile pain point of his heart, Richard Gad is indeed not afraid to portray Donny as a person who is happy with Martha's attention, Donnie's unhealthy attachment to Martha's stalking, showing the loneliness and vacancy of a person who lacks love because of trauma.