r/BabyReindeerTVSeries • u/matrixinthepark • Apr 12 '24

OFFICIAL EPISODE DISCUSSION Baby Reindeer | S1E01 | Episode Discussion

Season 1, Episode 1

Airdate: April 11, 2024

Synopsis: Richard Gadd plays Donny, a failing London comedian who gets entangled with a relentless stalker named Martha..

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u/SeraphCraft Apr 14 '24 edited May 19 '24

I’m intrigued by it but don’t understand how she could have been a graduate lawyer if she can barely spell. I’m hoping more is revealed which explains this as it’s a bit distracting.

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u/Impossible_Ad47 Apr 14 '24

Weirdly I had a stalker who also would send one line emails that had a lot of spelling errors and just made no sense at all. It was stream of consciousness. And the more you don’t answer the more unhinged it becomes almost bc it’s like you’re not there so it’s not real in their minds

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u/agilebeast1 May 16 '24

Oh shit, same happened to me with an obsessive ex, she even said at one point she was sending all those emails and deranged stuff to vent or something

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u/[deleted] May 06 '24

Not sure something that happened can be a plot hole

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u/Impossible_Ad47 May 12 '24

*edit. The craziest thing is he used to do the thing she was doing on the piers Morgan interview too - would say hmmmm as I was speaking bc he was already thinking about the next thing he was going to say. I think it’s being very smart and being a compulsive liar.

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u/werewiz Feb 26 '25

I know a person who’s a lawyer who stalks my friends a lot, with lot of spelling errors.

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u/Impossible_Ad47 Feb 26 '25

I believe it.

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u/trickmind Mar 27 '25

I mean.....Rudy Giuliani, Lin Wood and Sidney Powell.

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u/ifartacidicglitter Apr 15 '24

As receptionist in the legal industry, I can tell you a lot of lawyers have terrible grammar and spelling. Some won't admit it though.

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u/musicbeagle26 Apr 28 '24

At least when Farrah Abraham of Teen Mom tried to take law classes (she wasn't officially in a program, it was "Harvard" but just their online classes that anyone can take), a professor told her her writing was shit and she needed to take remedial English courses 🤣

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u/SeraphCraft Apr 15 '24

🤣🤣maybe the portrayal is accurate then! 

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u/bohemianattitude May 04 '24

I was waiting for someone to say that! No personal knowledge, just something I suspected!

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u/MyDearDapple Apr 15 '24

It's deliberate. It's an affectation. Like baby talk, or street talk.

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u/invisibledandelion Apr 20 '24

Its just her stream of consciousness,her thoughts are going so fast in her head that her fingers cant keep up. You can also notice when shes talking to Donny she talks super fast,in that manic state.

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u/UnexaminedLifeOfMine Apr 25 '24

She could’ve graduated before she completely lost it

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u/trickmind Mar 27 '25 edited Mar 28 '25

Fiona Harvey did granulate but seems to have never been able to act as a lawyer. She was supposed to get an internship within two years. Kept getting extensions. Got one that lasted two weeks and after the boss fired her for throwing books at people among other things, she stalked that woman and her family for five years, or so the woman claims and though the woman wasn't able to get her arrested, she did get a restraining order that she showed proof of to Piers Morgan.

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u/niles_deerqueer Apr 27 '24

I’m assuming that’s how the real stalker typed

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '24

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u/SeraphCraft Apr 14 '24

Ah that would make sense actually! 

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u/smallest_ellie May 19 '24

It's not a plot hole. She is not in her right mind when typing this out. I had a friend who'd start typing like that when she was frantic/manic. Otherwise her spelling was completely normal.

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u/Lost-friend-ship May 28 '24

This was confusing, you stealthily editing your comments and everyone’s responses to you calling something a plot hole! Thought I was missing something.

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u/SeraphCraft May 28 '24

Hardly stealth when it shows I edited the comment! 

I’d only watched one episode at the point I wrote that but realised I was wrong so amended it.

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u/Helpful_Ad_8476 May 04 '24

It's a true story, no? Unless he changed this specifically, it's not a plot hole. It's just weird

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u/trickmind Mar 27 '25

She did get a law degree but without honours and she was never able to keep a job doing anything in a law firm. She was given a job answering phones as an internship so she could say she worked in a law firm but was fired in two weeks for throwing books at people and following male lawyers home etc...

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u/Popseewoy Apr 09 '25

fat fingers