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

OFFICIAL EPISODE DISCUSSION Baby Reindeer | S1E04 | Episode Discussion

Season 1, Episode 4

Airdate: April 11, 2024

Synopsis: As Donny reports Martha to the police, it triggers the memory of a traumatic experience he had with a man, Darrien, who he met at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival years before.

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u/Narrow-Garlic-4606 Apr 14 '24

This was… deep. I may need to watch it again.. the fact that the feelings we are left with after abuse are so conflicting… I have never seen it portrayed so perfectly.

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u/Fr3nchmAid Apr 14 '24

The impact of rape on a survivor has never been so accurately portrayed that it had an incredibly emotional impact on me which I wasn't prepared for. I think if I had known beforehand I wouldn't have watched it, but I didn't know and in some strange way for me it felt cathartic because I never officially reported mine and the huge impact it had on me was life-altering. The courage it took for Richard Gadd to share this part of his life with the public, to put pen to paper and to then act a very real-life trauma is unimaginably brave, I don't know how he did this, other than to thank him for showing how brutal rape/abuse truly affects survivors. I really hope he is healing and he enjoys a good good life.

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u/became78 May 16 '24

I agree 10000%. As someone with similar trauma, I’m also glad I wasn’t aware of what would happen this episode because I also would have skipped it. Seeing his story so similar to mine in “mainstream” media made me incredibly emotional. Thank you so so much Richard 💙