“My Little Reindeer,” struggling with psychological impact

Inspired by the life of its creator and performer, Richard Gadd, the series about a comedian and the woman who harasses him leads the viewer into the churning of repressed memories that borrows from the paranoid thriller.

With a 64% jump in its second week, followed by a steady run atop Netflix’s most-watched shows in the month of April, without a star and despite a rather worrying title (no, you’re not on the youth card), here’s the latest holder of the now-routine role of a small national nugget that unexpectedly established itself as a hegemonic platform sensation. Written, directed and performed by Scottish comedian Richard Gadd based on his one-man play of the same name, My little reindeer is an autobiographically inspired story centered on the relationship between the famous fictional doppelganger Donny and a strange lost soul, a capital stalker who turned on him in 2015 and made his life hell for two years.

Position of accomplice

Gadd changed the names, the facts, the places, obscuring the paths that malicious viewers could try to take in order to in turn harass the people he draws inspiration from (Martha the bully, Darrien the drug addict and rapist producer). Yet he is the only master on board, the narrator-dictator of a fictionalized account with no point of view other than his own, though thankfully he takes care to balance his omnipotence with an anthology of embarrassing confessions and other masturbatory guilty pleasures.

Narcissistic reminiscence