Fiona Harvey appears to be having the time of her life. She’s the ‘real Martha’ in the Netflix hit, Baby Reindeer, where she’s depicted as a convicted stalker with a rage problem. Denying almost everything, Harvey is suing Netflix for libel on a global scale, hoping to secure a tidy £133 million. Since the show aired, her story has become almost as sensational as the drama itself – it’s all over social media and is now playing out with particular ghoulishness and high-drama on YouTube.
The accusations in the megabucks California lawsuit against Netflix include defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress and gross negligence
Every day more videos appear analysing every aspect of Harvey – her psyche, her body language, her law case and her relationship with the show’s creator Richard Gadd. There’s so much of this stuff that it’s not crazy to say that the fallout from Baby Reindeer has become Baby Reindeer Two: This time it’s war! Indeed, it seems to be a new kind of reality TV.
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