Baby Reindeer’s messy stalking has led to more messy stalking offscreen

With the Baby Reindeer fallout, the paradox of true crime as entertainment strikes again.

As a medium, autofiction has long been a source of controversy, but rarely has an autobiographical work of fiction come with as many built-in issues as Netflix’s hit Baby Reindeer. The show, a seven-episode limited series from British comedian Richard Gadd, chronicles Gadd’s history of allegedly being stalked for years by an older woman...