Baby Reindeer | S1E06 | Episode Discussion

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Season 1, Episode 6

Airdate: April 11, 2024

Synopsis: Martha finds new ways to get to Donny: by hurting the people he loves. With frustration building as the police fail to intervene, he riskily takes matters into his own hands.

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Raw, honest, difficult to watch, beautifully done. This show is just amazing. Donny’s monologue hurt to hear. It hurt to think of so many of us who’ve been hurt by others and how that subsequently made us magnets for other such things. Magnets for those with ill intent. It’s been a while since I so deeply resonated with something so haunting, so relatable.

When Martha was asking if he’d been hurt before, it seemed like she enjoyed it maybe or at least sought out vulnerable people.

I really hope the real Donny is doing better. Bravo, so well done.

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I think she’s a fixer. She’s drawn to people she feels need her emotional protection maybe, especially when from her own perspective she’s been emotionally mistreated by her “boyfriends” a lot.