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Baby Reindeer on Netflix has taken the internet by storm. It’s a crazy hit among the audience and fans seem to be not getting enough of it. There are all sorts of speculations around the show and fans have even tried to find the real-life Martha and other characters that were shown. If you are also one of the people who have been hit by the Baby Reindeer fever and want some more thematically similar shows to binge, here’s a list for you. The shows mentioned here are not exactly similar to Baby Reindeer in every aspect, but the themes of trauma, abuse, and mental health issues are the primary themes of these shows as well.
Beef
Beef, created by Sung Jin released in 2023 on Netflix. The show was well received, both by the audience and by the critics. It focuses on Amy (Ali Wong) and Danny (Steven Yeun), two strangers who get caught in a road rage incident that brings ultimate chaos to their lives. Amy and Danny are portrayed here as very different individuals having extremely different lives. Amy is successful and rich whereas Danny keeps struggling with his finances and his desire to build his parents a home and make them proud. However, when the road rage incident happens, the thin line of difference between them starts to blur and it becomes evident that maybe they are not so different after all. These two characters get obsessed with each other, planning and plotting their next moves to bring the other one down. They cannot let go, much like Martha and Donny in Baby Reindeer. The theme of stalking and obsession here has been dealt with in a completely different way than in Baby Reindeer but the loop of self-sabotaging tendencies and the irreparable effect of abuse on an individual remain very much the same.
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Bojack Horseman
Created by Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Bojack Horseman aired on Netflix from 2014-2020. Though the show is often referred to as a sitcom, it is anything but that. Sure, it does have its moments of humor, but that’s generally dark and self-decrepitating. The show tells the story of Bojack Horseman, a half horse half human male character who used to be famous in the 90s but is now jobless and sits in his mansion basking in the glory of his bygone years. It sounds harmless and simple enough but as the show progresses, the audience understands that there is nothing simple in the show. All the characters, including Bojack (Will Arnett) and the main side characters are extremely complicated with their own lives continuously spiraling out of control. Be it Princess Caroline (Amy Sedaris) or Diane (Alison Brie) or Todd (Aaron Paul), each of them have their own history of abuse and trauma. And then comes the titular character, Bojack, whose whole life is a series of unfortunate events, which he brought upon himself. Like Donny in Baby Reindeer, Bojack here also cannot escape his past and continuously keeps falling into a pattern of substance abuse and self-sabotaging tendencies. Though not entirely focused on stalking, Bojack Horseman can be a good watch after Baby Reindeer because of the similarity of themes that the two shows deal with.
