“Baby Reindeer” is a drama thriller miniseries streaming on Netflix that manage to become a huge hit for the streamer.
So let’s find out some trivia and facts about the series.
- Baby Reindeer is a British drama-thriller miniseries
- The series is created by and starring Richard Gadd
- It is an adaptation of Gadd’s autobiographical one-man show of the same name
- The series is based on Gadd’s real life experience of being stalked and sexually assaulted in his 20s
- The series consists of seven episodes
- All of them simultaneously premiered on Netflix on 11 April 2024
- The series was announced in December 2020
- With Richard Gadd set to write the series and star
- Clerkenwell Films was set to produce
- Weronika Tofilska was added as the director in August 2022
- In March 2023, Josephine Bornebusch was announced as an additional director
- Richard Gadd was cast alongside the series announcement
- Jessica Gunning was cast on 26 August 2022
- Nava Mau was cast in March 2023
- Filming began in mid-August 2022 in Edinburgh at the Grassmarket
- Filming also occurred in London
- Filming wrapped by early March 2023
- On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the miniseries holds a 100% rating
- Based on 23 critics
- With an average rating of 8.0/10
- The website’s consensus reads: “A bracing work of autofiction by creator and star Richard Gadd, Baby Reindeer can be a punishing watch but richly rewards viewers with its emotional complexity and excellent performances”
- On Metacritic, the series holds a weighted average score of 87 out of 100
- Based on nine critics
- Indicating “universal acclaim”
- The series debuted on No. 5 on Netflix weekly top 10 with 10.4 million hours viewed
