Baby Reindeer Recap: Strange, Eerie Silence

While Baby Reindeer’s fifth episode comes with a bit of a softer touch — a welcome easing off after the sexual-assault revelations of episode four — as a viewer, you can’t help but be on edge. When will Martha spring out? When will something horrible happen? When will the other shoe drop?

It’s an interesting and appropriate dramatic technique because, in a way, it makes us all feel like Donny in some sense. Even though, as of this episode, Martha’s been...