Headline : ‘Baby Reindeer’ Is TV’s Latest Tortured-Poet Show

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This post contains spoilers for Baby Reindeer, which is now streaming on Netflix.

It takes less than two minutes into Netflix’s Baby Reindeer for the words “this is a true story” to appear onscreen. This simple phrase, when used in pop culture, adds an extra level of emotional weight that tales sold as wholly fictional don’t get: Sure, your imagination can invent something crazy, but can you believe this thing actually happened to someone?!?!

The lure of Based on a True Story is so powerful that many film and television executives consider it to be another form of IP. It’s so powerful that creators occasionally get caught claiming they’re adapting something real, when instead they made up most or all of it. A Million Little Pieces author James Frey was kicked out of Oprah’s Book Club for just such an offense, and Hassan Minhaj lost the chance to host The Daily Show for it.

The notion that Baby Reindeer is inspired by events in the life of its creator and star, Richard Gadd, has been a big part of the miniseries’ explosion over the past two weeks. It arrived on Netflix with minimal fanfare — no real marketing campaign, no review screeners sent to critics in hopes of generating advance buzz — but word-of-mouth grew, and it remains at the top of Netflix’s daily charts at this writing. Viewers have been transfixed by Gadd and co-star Jessica Gunning’s performances, and by the relentless nightmare atmosphere of the story, which sees struggling comedian Donny’s life unravel due to the obsessive attention of convicted stalker Martha, as well as his ongoing trauma from having been repeatedly raped by comedy writer Darrien (Tom Goodman-Hill). But audiences seem even more fascinated with where the line exists between what happens to Donny and what happened to Gadd, and with figuring out who the real-life versions of Martha and Darrien are. It reached a point earlier this week that Gadd took to social media to beg his new fans to stop searching for these people.

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