“I found myself stuck, impossible to stop the series”
Released on April 11 in complete discretion, “My Little Reindeer” explodes the scores and is currently number 1 in the world on the platform, despite its very dark themes. Between comedy, thriller and drama, the series is based on the one-man show by Scottish comedian Richard Gadd, inspired by his own life. Creator and star of the series, the actor tells how, in 2013, he crossed paths with Martha, a woman with serious mental health problems who became attached to him and harassed him, even sexually assaulting him. An infernal spiral which will lead him to revisit another traumatic moment in his life, which he had decided to bury inside himself.
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“Like 13 million other subscribers, I started watching and got stuck, couldn’t stop the series” writes Stephen King in his column.”HIt’s a good thing my novel ‘Misery’ came out earlier because people might have thought I stole my story from Richard Gadd“, he adds. Released in 1987, “Misery” tells the story of a writer who is taken in by one of his fans after a serious road accident. She discovers that the author has killed his favorite character in his new book, and decides to push him to resurrect her by using extreme means This woman, called Annie Wilkes, who has become a classic psychopathic stalker character in literature, is often compared to the. character of Martha.
“VSUnlike most episodes of streaming series, the episodes of ‘My Little Reindeer’ are short, real stabs, with a very sharp knife. (…) Here, in less than two minutes in the first episode, we see what differentiates ‘My Little Reindeer’ from other dramatic or psychodramatic series” the author continues a little further.”The confrontation between Donny’s disgust for himself and his self-esteem in this monologue makes this sixth episode one of the best things I have seen on television (or even in the cinema)” he adds. “We feel empathy for him rather than impatience, and we feel empathy for Martha too. Even if I wouldn’t have offered him a cup of tea” concludes the writer in a nod to the series.
