Baby Reindeer
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Just when you thoughtBaby Reindeercouldnt get more intense, it goes and ups the ante.
We open episode three fresh off Donnys sexual assault.
He smells her neck sweat in his sleep and obsesses over why he just froze and let it happen.
(This is a common account from sexual-assault survivors.)
He knows it, and she knows it too.
Donnys actions are making Teri second-guess herself, and thats what makes his actions so reprehensible.
(Quotation marks his.)
Martha has sneakily joined his landlords (Keelys mom!)
cooking group, passing herself off as Sheila, a friendly lawyer.
Fuck, fuck, fuck!
Martha/Sheila accepts, and while Liz is on a quest for blankets, Donny confronts her.
What follows is both disturbing and sad as Martha takes up on the bus bench outside Lizs house.
Anything to take you away from the stasis that is your life.
just not as a kid.)
Week after week, Martha is on the bench and Donny ignores her.
One day, shes just broken.
Would it have killed him to call an ambulance and let them deal with it?
When Donny drops off Martha, he seems to realize (JUST NOW?
I scream …) that Martha does actually think theres something between them in real life.
That being said, comedy is at its best when its true, at least in some sense.
Thats why GaddsBaby Reindeerlanded, I think, and why his whole plaid-suit-and-props bit just isnt.
Maybe thats the point, though: He needed to find and accept himself before he became famous.
Just when Donnys comedy seems to be going well, though, Martha shows up.
Shes there not just to sing but to profess her love.
(Touche, Martha.
You got him there.)
(Shes such a joy, for real.
Donny, Teri is too good for you.)
Thats when things go very, very awry.
The answer, it turns out, is no.
Martha quickly takes issue not just with Teri being with Donny but with her background.
You came at us first, England!)
She attacks Teri, pulling out clumps of hair and scratching and punching her face.
has to be done before someone ends up not just hurt but dead.
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Why does Martha have so many cell phones in her kitchen drawer?
Is it a sign that shes a hoarder, or is it much more devious?
