If you think you’ve come across a new Christmas animated series for little ones, you’re sadly mistaken. Since April 11, many Netflix subscribers have spent sleepless nights watching this chilling new show. Only with 7 episodes of 30 to 45 minutes, this new miniseries continues to reach the top of the most watched series of the moment. However, this is not the first time that Netflix has offered its subscribers a variety of thrills, suspense or even outright horror. Then why My little reindeer Is she the center of all the attention?
The summary of my little reindeer: a waking nightmare
But in fact, My little reindeer, What is it about? Donny (Richard Gadd) is a waiter in a pub in a working-class area of London. One day, a woman enters the bar crying. Empathetic, she offers a drink to this twenty years older lady who claims to be a famous lawyer. A gesture that will cost him dearly. From this episode, Martha (played by the excellent Jessica Gunning) will engage in incessant harassment of Donny. An escalation of violence that will reach the irreparable…
A (horrible) true story
This is undoubtedly one of the ingredients that makes the series so compelling and uplifting. My little reindeer is inspired by a one-man show of 2019, written and performed by the Scottish comedian, writer and actor Riccardo Gadd. Play there your role through a character called Donny. His show was already inspired by his own story.
The show and series get their sinister name (Little reindeer in English) of a small nickname included Martha, his stalker he embellished it. THE Daily email reports that this harassment lasted three yearsduring which Richard Gadd was inundated 40,000 emails (OR 35 emails a day)740 tweets, 350 voice messages, added to hundreds of letters. Martha follows him on the street and at work, breaks into her house, sympathizes with those around him under a false name. She throws violent fits of jealousy at Richard Gadd’s girlfriend and leaves until sexually assaulting him.
Beyond the embarrassment, the story of a society undermined by sexist and sexual violence, homophobia and transphobia
You might think this My little reindeer it is just the portrait of a sick psyche, of a poor mythomaniac and violent woman. A sensationalist story that multiplies sequences of harassment and embarrassing attacks. However, over the course of the episodes, we understand this his interest lies elsewhereand this is undoubtedly what surprised subscribers the most.
Why did Donny wait three long years of suffering before telling the police about his nightmare? Because he only mentions itpart of the harassment What is Martha doing to him, even though she has hundreds of thousands of pieces of evidence? Why do you only mention a few emails and not say a word about sexual assault?
If Martha’s violence is showy, rudeit serves as a revealer of the more tacit violence that lurks among these people considered normal. Through flashbackwe learn that the stalker he is not the first attacker to have crossed paths with Donny. Let’s also find out the limits of theseparticularly in the manner treats his trans girlfriend. Sexual violence in the world of entertainment, repressed homosexuality, trivialized transphobia…My little reindeer can be distressing and emotional as a Miseryits political meaning is much more disturbing.
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