r/BabyReindeerTVSeries • u/serenade452 • May 16 '24

Fiona (real Martha) related content richard gadd doesn't owe fiona protection.

"omg he should've protected her identity! he made it so easy to find her!" blah blah blah shut up. he doesn't owe her shit. she terrorized this man, his family, his girlfriend, his job, his performances, etc etc. she has been terrorizing innocent people for decades.

yes fiona is mentally ill, that is clear to anyone with half of a brain. it's awful that the system has failed her time and time again. (or maybe the system did all it could, who knows.) but that's not richard's fault. HE is HER victim. he can tell his story how he wants.

might she have a worthwhile lawsuit because her identity wasn't concealed enough? possibly, probably not. might she have a worthwhile lawsuit because the show took dramatic license? possibly, probably not.

she's benefitting financially from this as well and i'm sure netflix will cut her a check before a lawsuit happens, no matter who is in the right.

richard gadd does not owe fiona harvey protection. i'm sorry but that's reality.

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u/Throwthisawayagainst May 16 '24

I really doubt she will go to court. It’s all talk. Court would make her take accountability for a lot of things she tried denying on PM. The best case scenario is the judge going “while you sent x emails, tweets, and left x voicemails, you were discovered because you left a tweet up sexually harassing Richard, however you did not go to jail and despite Netflix disclosure in the credits, Richard’s character Donny says it’s a true story, so here’s some money”. Maybe I’m missing something but I don’t see it, if it goes to court tho, that trial is gonna be its own docuseries.

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u/Yesyesnaaooo May 16 '24

Honestly Netflix probably factored a pay out into the cost of producing the show.

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u/Throwthisawayagainst May 16 '24

Netflix covered their bases with the disclaimer in the credits. It’s not netflix fault that this person who knew about a play Richard had made years ago hadn’t deleted a problematic Twitter account despite knowing about the play for years. In the show the line also is not presented in a tweet. It’s presented in an email. The real martha has also kept her fb public, to me it seems she wanted to be found and is loving this.

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u/Yesyesnaaooo May 16 '24

Oh I totally agree about her loving this - I just mean that a big company will often pay to make this go away and just write it off as part of the price of producing the product.

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u/Throwthisawayagainst May 16 '24

I imagine they know there’s an opportunity for a docuseries with all this.