Emilio Madrid 9 min read The following story contains spoilers for the entire season of Half Man . IT MAY SEEM as though Half Man , the latest drama from writer and actor Richard Gadd, was made in direct response to the perilous state masculinity finds itself in today. But in truth, Gadd had written a draft of its first episode years ago, back in 2019, before he’d even begun adapting the stage show of Baby Reindeer into the hit Netflix series it would later become in 2024. For years, Half Man had been itching the back of Gadd’s brain, and he must have sensed a certain kind of urgency because he returned to the project in December of 2023, bright and early the next morning right after finishing the sound mix for Baby Reindeer’ s final episode. The final product is a gripping, and perhaps even more emotionally brutal, follow-up to the unflinching Baby Reindeer .…