‘Half Man’ Review: Richard Gadd Follows ‘Baby Reindeer’ with a Dire, One-Note Slog

Cardassian literature in the house

Repetitively brilliant

My job. My job. Being repetitive is my job.

Repetitively brilliant

Also, effulgently repetitious

Headline, chief

My problem with it is, for me, that's all there is. It's the 'trauma', and I get it. I'm sure it was cathartic for Gadd to work through that with his art, and that's awesome. It resonated with audiences, clearly, and helped people work through their personal trauma(s) similar in one way or another, which is fantastic and makes the creation an objectively good thing. I don't want to describe it as 'misery p***' or 'trauma p***', akin to something like This Is Us, because I think that marginalizes what Gadd went through and how he processed/is processing it and how it shows through his work, but that's how it comes across to me. I think part of the problem (again, for me personally, not trying to make any objective claims) is television is simply a worse medium for that compared to film, especially a show focused on one person as opposed to an ensemble cast. Movies like Mother!, or Ordinary People, or Good Will Hunting I find much more effective when it comes to 'trauma' if only because the shorter runtime prevents the like, "Yeah, I f****** get it.", reaction I inevitably have when we're drawing out the story over 7-8-9+ episodes. Just as a final note, all the above is, again, my personal opinion, and not a judgement of Gadd/the people who enjoyed the show.

Literally think you could do oke of those honest trailer videos for it and the joke title at the end would be "Oversharing"

Braking bad just ends in a wreck.

yea but its a mediocre show that only got hyped bc the premise is outlandish.

That’s a lot of art though right? People use different mediums to process their own thoughts, could be painting, theatre or scriptwriting

She absolutely is. No one is saying she isn't short of a screw or that she didn't stalk politicians. It's just anyone that knows Gadd knows that she never stalked him and he just took inspiration. Look at the Hawley Pub workers speaking publicly about it. It's not exactly a hidden truth.

Ok Fiona, here's your bus coming

I have no skin in this game, I know no real facts of the case, and I liked the show, but the second I saw Gadd out of character I thought he came off like an a******. There’s something about him that felt off. Doesn’t impact any sort of opinion I have on the whole debacle, because like I said, I don’t know any of the facts—so I have no opinion. But I don’t think you’re coming off as unhinged or something like you were just accused of. From my place far removed from this, I can see that her obvious mental health issues and history of stalking behavior absolutely lends credence to the story. Then again, it’s not like it would be the first time someone took advantage of a mentally ill person in the hopes that no one would believe them when they come forward and insist something isn’t true. So imo your argument is as valid as the other.