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Baby Reindeer: Season 1

Dan Murrell did a review of this series [10m] that is what convinced me to watch it. I don't think I would have if I hadn't seen what he had to share about it.

I'm not a Murrell stan. But I do watch his shows and know enough of his taste to know that I'd more find this interesting than not.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 4:27 PM on April 24, 2024

Also, things in this series pivot HARD in episode 4, and there are many here on MetaFilter who has said that things that happen there are a red line with them for watching or reading things. So be aware, the sexual assault mentioned in the description above is not easy to watch. But is very very informative to the story.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 6:42 PM on April 24, 2024

Richard Gadd (Creator), Jessica Gunning (Baby Reindeer Actors) On Lorraine [18.04.2024] [8m]
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 8:56 PM on April 24, 2024

The True Story Behind Baby Reindeer | Netflix [12m25s]
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 9:08 PM on April 24, 2024

The show actually switches to a different director for the last half of the series, which makes sense because it's a real tone shift. I'm not to the end yet, but I think the whole thing is probably going to be worth it in the end.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 9:15 PM on April 24, 2024

I find myself endlessly curious what the actual one-man show was like. I feel like I can identify bits and parts of it. But they've expanded it pretty excellently generally.

I'll have to look around and see if there's a published script for the stage show.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 9:38 PM on April 24, 2024

The end of this is... really emotionally complex.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 10:13 PM on April 24, 2024

I do hope more people watch this and want to talk about it. I found it difficult but worthwhile. A very human story. I'm entirely unsure how much of the "true story" is the true story, but there's enough in there that I can't doubt there is a lot that has been lived here.

There is a published script for the stage show, and I think it's been performed by others by this point, too. It's a really interesting story.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 2:26 PM on April 26, 2024

Yeah, honestly what I think keeps this whole seven episodes from feeling cheap and manipulating is how entirely human it feels. There are so many bad choices that are so completely understandable. Standing outside you're shouting "no, not that" but at the same time you sit and watch and completely understand why the bad decision was chosen.

It's a really brilliant bit of writing and I hope it gets all the laudations it deserves. I've seen some UK press saying… [more]
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 6:52 PM on April 26, 2024

The combination of GHB and MDMA is something that really hit hard for me, as I've been on both side of that equation -- offering and receiving. Didn't get raped, but wow, that whole sequence really set me on edge because it runs SOOO incredibly close to situations I've been in before.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 11:55 AM on April 27, 2024

OMG one of my Mastodon friends is watching this now, and it's going to be interesting to watch him going through this.

It's such a good series. I'm getting ready for a rewatch. I feel like I need to revisit this again quickly because it is so rich and full of messy humanity.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 2:09 PM on April 27, 2024

I need to rewatch it, but on thinking about it from a bit of distance... I don't think he ever once tries to ascribe motivation to others in the story, only what he perceives and how he is affected by their actions. It's a noble storytelling in that it is not trying to say what is going on in other's minds. In that way [amongst many others] it is very honest.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 3:08 PM on April 29, 2024

The first 15 minutes of this week's The Rest Is Entertainment gets into ALL of the fallout from this series, and also talks about corporate responsibility to make sure things like "we can find out who this is" unable to happen is a thing that actually exists... it's a very interesting conversation about the larger picture surrounding Baby Reindeer.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 1:50 PM on May 1, 2024

There is so much shouting at television that takes place across these four hours.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 7:08 PM on May 2, 2024

Fallout: The Past

The series really sort of launches in the second half.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 4:32 PM on April 21, 2024

Fallout: The Ghouls

Okay, so in the shot with the very turquoise kitchen fixtures...

What exactly are the knobs under the kitchen sink? Like stove knobs, only under a sink?
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 7:30 PM on April 16, 2024

So, did they do a disservice to this show by going All At Once for the episode releases instead of weekly? We've learned by now that these two release strategies have very different effects in how the work is received. I am wondering if this series is better served by the fanboy full-series binge release strategy, or should they have gone weekly to allow the slow drip of watching and discussion?
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 7:19 PM on April 17, 2024

Having grown up with television that was 26 episodes released one week at a time and then rerun for the other half of the year, I'm entirely okay with what is now being called the Drip strategy.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 8:42 PM on April 18, 2024

Fallout: The Target

I've not played Fallout at all, but I have watched gameplay of it enough to appreciate the moment during this episode where the vault dweller character walks up to the guy outside of his property and talks to him for a while and then is like all "okay, this is over, bye!". I mean, that's how a giant amount of games like Fallout work. You wander up to someone, talk to them for a while, and then wander onward.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 5:47 PM on April 16, 2024

And by gum, it looks like they actually built that Filly downtown set, and didn't just film it in a Volume. I appreciate the production values of this series.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 5:58 PM on April 16, 2024

Also appreciating how the flying mech actually looks like a flying mech and not a cartoon of a flying mech.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 6:05 PM on April 16, 2024

Mrs. Davis: A Great Place to Drink to Gain Control of Your Drink

I really feel like this episode had to lot to say about stories and how they are processed in our modern culture. The impatience and speculation of the audience for the story being told says a lot about, well, forums like this discussing televisions shows episode by episode. And the shifting of the commercial into mythos, and the mythos into horror, and then back to a quest... there are things trying to be said here about narrative and audiences and participation and a bunch of other things.… [more]
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 6:14 PM on May 30, 2023

Special Event: Live Stream: The Grand Final (2023 Eurovision Song Contest)

Are there cultural allusions happening here I don't understand, or is this just generically batshit insane?
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 1:43 PM on May 13, 2023

During the intro video I was all "oh, the beardy-face has to be the drummer" and I was right!
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 1:56 PM on May 13, 2023

Croatia's Village People, but I can't tell what the occupations are supposed to be.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 2:13 PM on May 13, 2023

Yeah, this UK song could be performed better. This feels low energy compared to what has come before.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 2:17 PM on May 13, 2023

Is that Roger Taylor on drums?

Yes!

Taylor is in Queen, not Yes.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 2:43 PM on May 13, 2023

Liverpudlian singers I think.

Finally back from Hollywood, I believe.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 2:44 PM on May 13, 2023

Oh I don't know. There's a cover of Imagine by A Perfect Circle that is pretty boss, IMO.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 2:49 PM on May 13, 2023

Man, Dead Or Alive was a bit of a gateway drug to get rock friends of mine into synth pop. Somehow.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 2:50 PM on May 13, 2023

Well, THAT was an entrance!
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 2:55 PM on May 13, 2023

Oh dear. They're going to slowly strangle the life out of You'll Never Walk Alone.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 2:56 PM on May 13, 2023

Surely they meant this performance to be Ferry Cross The Mersey....
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 2:58 PM on May 13, 2023

6 foot 10 inches? That's.... really really tall.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 3:02 PM on May 13, 2023

So the top of Duncan's head comes up to Daði's shoulders. Maybe a bit lower.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 3:04 PM on May 13, 2023

With Bjorn reminding us how Eurovision was a major launcher for acts... I'm left to ask, whatever happened to Jedward?
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 3:07 PM on May 13, 2023

I feel like Hannah is starting a major career boost. She hosted that big awards show earlier this year and did an opening number where she had to hit a hella high note within the first ten minutes of the show, and that's usually reserved for the 11 o'clock number. She's super great, and I want to see her win all the everything.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 3:08 PM on May 13, 2023

Ukraine's spokesperson's dress is AMAZING!
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 3:10 PM on May 13, 2023

Oh god. I haven't watched this in a couple of years, and I forgot about this voting thing.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 3:12 PM on May 13, 2023

How does that girl do anything with those long of nails?!

Court stenagrophy has evolved a lot!

I was thinking the same thing, really. But those things, you put them on for a night, then you take them off.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 3:17 PM on May 13, 2023

And with another look, those don't look like fake nails, but actual fingertip covers?
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 3:19 PM on May 13, 2023

Oh wow. Hambursch. That's such an accent, I'm delighted!
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 3:21 PM on May 13, 2023

How can they be hungry at this hour? It's like 5am in Australia!
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 3:23 PM on May 13, 2023

Yeah, those nails look like they are fingertip covers that go fully down below the second knuckle. They are really amazing props. I wonder what they look like in real life.

Also, Italy Man is far too handsome. Goodness.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 3:34 PM on May 13, 2023

Yeah, there was foot-unstableness happening with Australia.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 3:36 PM on May 13, 2023

Sweden, Finland, Norway... they're so tight.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 3:39 PM on May 13, 2023

What they did last year doesn't mean they'll do it this year.

I remember in years past sitting through zero point votes over and over as each country voted entry by entry.

They're avoiding that this year.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 3:42 PM on May 13, 2023

Well, the Tears Of The Kingdom is because they didn't win Eurovision.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 3:46 PM on May 13, 2023

Poor Spain.
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 3:56 PM on May 13, 2023

And in 30 years we'll have a Loreen musical on Broadway!
posted to FanFare by hippybear at 4:03 PM on May 13, 2023