Real-life Netflix thriller with perfect Rotten Tomatoes score has viewers 'blown away'

Netflix fans have hailed a new thriller, based on a true story, as 'the best thing' on TV 'for years.' Baby Reindeer is currently the most-watched TV series on the streamer in the UK.

It's the real-life story of comedian and stalking victim Richard Gadd, who not only created the series, but stars as barman and moonlighting comic Donny Dunn too. While pulling pints in a London pub, he meets Martha - an apparently broke lawyer who can't even afford a cup of tea.

As an act of kindness, Donny offers her the drink on the house. That's where it all starts to go wrong. Martha, played by The Outlaws' Jessica Gunning, begins stalking Donny. And at times, Donny almost encourages it - flirting back with her and somewhat playing into her delusions.

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As her obsession grows, she pelts him with thousands of emails and eventually leaves him hundreds of hours worth of voice mails. Donny begins to learn about her sinister past, while viewers get an insight into Donny's troubling backstory too. He's had some harrowing experiences while trying to make it big in comedy, while battling other personal struggles.

The seven-part series, which released on April 11, has already racked up a perfect 100 percent Rotten Tomatoes score from critics on the review site. Empire Magazine's David Opie described the series as a 'brave, moving, and often disturbing watch that's rooted in comedy'.

London Evening Standard's Vicky Jessop said the protagonists' relationship is 'fascinating to watch in the same way that a car crash is, spiralling out to infect everything around it even as the show digs deeper into their backstories.'

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