Baby Reindeer: Limited Series - TV Reviews (2024)

Great storytelling, terrific performances by Gadd and Jessica Gunning as Martha, his devoted tormentor (she really isn’t Scottish you know), and it treats its subject with the complexity it deserves.

Full Review | May 3, 2024

At this point, it should be clear that this is not a comedy but a drama starring a comedian, which is something quite different. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 2, 2024

This is outstanding television. Richard Gadd manages to deliver an engrossing and fascinating character study. As it goes from comedic to dark and often traumatic, the writing manages to keep us on track through the unexpected twists.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | May 2, 2024

A devastating portrayal of a man both traumatized by and dependent on his abusers’ approval and attention.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | May 2, 2024

A complicated look at stalking, abuse, and sexuality, the series leaves you in a stunned state after finishing it.

Full Review | May 1, 2024

The obsession story is reminiscent of Misery (1990)... [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 30, 2024

There is nothing pat or simplistic in the way Gadd lays it all out across seven half-hour episodes, and, most interestingly, there is very little self-righteousness afoot.

Full Review | Apr 30, 2024

Baby Reindeer feels disturbingly real.

Full Review | Apr 28, 2024

This show exists entirely in moral greyness and ruthlessly puts the fragility and self-destructiveness of human beings under a white-hot spotlight.

Full Review | Apr 27, 2024

This series balances being deeply unsettling and being darkly humorous. Baby Reindeer is foreboding and fascinating.

Full Review | Apr 27, 2024

Combining Nighty Night/League of Gentlemen-esque laughs with the tone and atmosphere of a horror film, it’s a difficult, provocative work full of palpable pain and humanity.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 26, 2024

While this is a difficult series to watch, it’s a wonderful mix of haunting and rewarding, thanks to the truthfulness of the storytelling and the gripping performances.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 26, 2024

Baby Reindeer is honest: it does not try to hide its identity as a series about trauma nor does it wrap the poison in a bonbon. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 25, 2024

A horror story couched in the recesses of comedy, it’s a painful, compelling viewing experience. The line between wanting to know what happens and wanting to back away is thin and dangerously sharp; Gadd never settles for anything less.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 25, 2024

The whole series is remarkable, half confessional and half thriller.

Full Review | Apr 25, 2024

In practice, the series repeatedly and clumsily conflates the horror of abuse with the simple fact of queer sexuality.

Full Review | Apr 25, 2024

In a way, as a viewer, your experience mirrors that of Gadd. You desperately want it all to stop but can’t quite bring yourself to press the off button. And you’d be right not to do so: this is a masterpiece.

Full Review | Apr 25, 2024

Baby Reindeer is much deeper than the comedic limited series about a plus-sized stalker tormenting an awkwardly tall and skinny bartender portrayed in the trailer.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 25, 2024

"Baby Reindeer" is not what you expect; it's much darker, unsettling, and emotionally resonant —an important and extraordinary journey. It’s far from an easy watch, but it may be one of the most rewarding of the year.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 24, 2024

There's nothing really like this series, and its unique story makes it vital to the television landscape.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Apr 23, 2024