‘Baby Reindeer’ Creator Returns With Brutal Take on Bad Men

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/baby-reindeer-how-netflixs-stalker-series-became-a-viral-sensation/" rel="">Baby Reindeer creator Richard Gadd’s new show Half Man, another portrait of tortured and toxic masculinity, drips with homoeroticism.

Sexiness, however, is in short supply, as the creator/writer/star’s latest (April 23, on HBO) is a six-episode saga of domination, humiliation, need, self-loathing, intolerance, and violence whose anguish and anger are matched only by its obviousness and repetitiveness.

Gadd may have https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/ripped-baby-reindeer-creator-richard-gadd-unrecognizable-in-new-show/" rel="" target="_self" title="https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/ripped-baby-reindeer-creator-richard-gadd-unrecognizable-in-new-show/">bulked up to play the part of a villainous aggro alpha, but the eagerly awaited follow-up to his Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning hit is, by and large, a slight and transparent tale of closeted torment and co-dependent craziness.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/half-man-review-baby-reindeer-creator-returns-with-brutal-take-on-bad-men/">Read more at The Daily Beast.