Okay So Who Watched Baby Reindeer?

I just finished Netflix's buzzy hit Baby Reindeer from creator and lead Richard Gadd (as seen above) last night and... I don't have much in the way of coherent and put-together thoughts on it quite yet but it hit me like ten tons of bricks, basically over and over again anew with each episode. Although nothing I experienced was as outrageously harsh as what Gadd went through the show definitely reminded me of some negative codependant experiences I went through early in my coming out journey -- one adult woman that I worked with back in high school tried really hard to get me to, uhh, inseminate her, and that was an uncomfortable one for sure. But it wasn't just the main stalker storyline that hits so hard -- it dug up a lot of the deeply self-destructive behavior one indulges one's self in before you allow yourself to come to grips with yourself. I talked about some of that when I wrote about Call Me By Your Name for the first time, but there's plenty more where that came from and this show was pinpoint precise in its excavation of that un-fun kind of self-abuse. Where you don't think you're worth any more than degradation. Just an astounding and brutally funny (emphasis on brutal) program and if you haven't watched it yet, do.