‘Baby Reindeer’ Wins Best Limited Series Golden Globe

“Baby Reindeer” continues its awards streak. — Sent from my iPhone.

The Netflix limited series based on the solo stage show comedian Richard Gadd premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2019 won Best Limited or Anthology Series or Television Film at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards, held Sunday, January 5 at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. This marks a streak for Netflix, as they won in the same category for Lee Sung Jin’s “Beef” last year.

Named as one of IndieWire’s Best TV Shows of 2024, “Baby Reindeer” stars Gadd as a version of himself renamed Donny Dunn. A struggling alt-comedian and bartender in London, Dunn becomes involved in a complicated entanglement with a stalker that forces him to face traumatic past events he hadn’t yet dealt with emotionally. The show has been lauded for not only its handling of sexuality, gender identity, sexual assault, and trauma, but also its performances from Gadd, Jessica Gunning, Nava Mau, and Tom Goodman-Hill. All four were nominated at the 2024 Primetime Emmy Awards, with Gadd and Gunning winning, respectively, for Outstanding Lead Actor and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Television Film.

Gadd and Gunning were also nominated at the Golden Globes for Best Actor — Miniseries or Television Film and Best Supporting Actress — Series, Miniseries, or Television Film, with Gunning winning in her category. Both spoke to IndieWire at separate points following the show’s meteoric rise in spring 2024.

“Twitter was exploding. It was trending. It was so huge,” Gadd told Indiewire’s Marcus Jones. “And then people were hanging around my street. I couldn’t really walk down the street anymore, and I had to kind of disguise myself to a certain degree, and it felt very intense suddenly. I could feel it almost transmutating in a way. I don’t read much online, if anything, and I stay out of it. I didn’t write the show to read endless articles about it, and watch TikTok or go on Twitter and see what people have to say. I’ve stayed out of it mostly, but at one point I remember turning on the news and it was people discussing it on the news, turn on the radio, people were discussing it on the radio. I remember I was on the front page of the paper at one point, and it felt like everywhere I went, I couldn’t avoid it. It really felt like everyone was talking about it. And that lasted for about four to six weeks after it had come out.”

Previously having co-star in the 2015 LGBTQ drama “Pride,” Gunning has been a working actress for many years, but told Indiewire’s Proma Khosla that inhabiting stalker Martha was unlike any experience she’d had thus far and all of the attention she’s gotten as a result won’t ever surpass that.

“I’ve said before, and I genuinely do mean this: if I never work again, I get to say that I played Martha in ‘Baby Reindeer,’” said Gunning. “I’m so proud of that, so I never, ever use it as a platform, I never want to be famous or anything like that. I just want to work, I love it so much. I’m such a geek.”

The 82nd Golden Globe Awards were held Sunday, January 5 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, CA.

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