Has any television programme ever had such a dramatic off-screen arc as Baby Reindeer? Dropped on to Netflix without expectation or warning a month ago, its popularity exploded as people sat gripped through Richard Gadd’s stalking horror show, boggled by the promise that all of this had actually happened.
And yet now it’s hard to think of Baby Reindeer without it leaving a distasteful smell. The show’s popularity – and the promise of veracity – led to a small army of internet sleuths effectively stalking the characters’ supposed real-world counterparts. Martha, the woman who tormented Gadd’s character with an onslaught of unwanted interaction, was outed as a Scottish woman named Fiona Harvey. With grim inevitability, Harvey was last night interviewed on Piers Morgan’s YouTube channel.
