Television Half Man Is Astonishing. I Never Want to Watch It Again. Richard Gadd’s follow-up to Baby Reindeer confirms exactly who he is as an artist. Richard Gadd and Jamie Bell in Half Man . HBO I don’t envy Richard Gadd the task of following up on his smash hit show of 2024, Baby Reindeer . Gadd’s debut, a drama/thriller that billed itself as a “true story” about a man’s entanglement with a stalker, shot to the top of the Netflix charts unexpectedly and threw its creator into the limelight in queasy ways when the woman on whom the show’s stalker was apparently based revealed her identity and went on Piers Morgan’s show to address what she saw as an unacceptable and public character assassination. The noise around the real-life origins of Baby Reindeer became louder than the noise about the series itself, and cemented the show as a must-watch cultural phenomenon, one that has been rewarded with six Emmys.…