Baby Reindeer
I'm only three episodes in, but wow! This is really a stellar piece of drama. It's disturbing to watch, and even more disturbing is its power to resonate within myself. I sat through the first three episodes shouting at the screen whenever I saw Donny making the kind or nice decisions that would inevitably lead him into ever deepening and disastrous situations. We are all born naive. Our attitudes are formed and influenced by the environment we grow up in. For me, that meant a typical upper working-class, small 'c' conservative family. My mother, bless her, had exceptional potential for a far more bohemian artistic life, but that never got to see the light of day that would allow mum to flourish. Mum was kept locked up in a "housewife" existence by economic necessity controlled by a fairly 1950s patriarchal system. The remainder of my childhood environment was still stuck in a yesteryear antagonism and disgust of anything other than straighten-up-and-fly-righ...