11 Shows Like Baby Reindeer And How To Watch Them

Richard Gadd in Baby Reindeer
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SPOILER WARNING: The following article mentions certain revealing details about the plot of Baby Reindeer, so be careful what you read if you have not yet seen the show.

Scottish comedian Richard Gadd took inspiration from distressing and volatile personal experiences to create an acclaimed one-person stage show called Baby Reindeer, which was later adapted into a 2024 Netflix original TV show of the same name. Both written by and starring Gadd, the miniseries hit Number One on the platform, invoked enthusiastic and upsetting reactions, including from Stephen King, won six Emmy Awards, and recently received three 2025 Golden Globes nominations.

If you have already made it through all seven episodes of the drama with your Netflix subscription and the experience has made you curious to check out other series that explore the same challenging topics, look no further. We found several shows like Baby Reindeer and will show you how they relate and where you can watch them in our guide below.

Penn Badgley in You.

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You (2018-2024)

Starring: Penn Badgley

What it's about: A young man will stop at absolutely nothing to find the love he believes he deserves.

Why it is a show worth watching if you like Baby Reindeer: The main plot of Baby Reindeer follows Donny Dunn’s (Gadd) struggles with an obsessed stalker named Martha (Jessica Gunning) and another great TV show on Netflix about stalking — just about the ultimate series that explores the subject — is You, which is, intriguingly, told from the stalker’s point of view.

How to watch You

Dominique Fishback in Swarm

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Swarm (2023)

Starring: Dominique Fishback

What it's about: A young woman sees her infatuation with a widely celebrated pop music singer affect her life in disturbing ways.

Why it is a show worth watching if you like Baby Reindeer: Donny’s stalking situation, and other troubling experiences, occur when he is trying to make it as a comedian and a great TV show on Amazon Prime about stalking and obsession is creators Donald Glover and Janine Nabors’ Swarm, a miniseries also told from the perspective of the stalker, but whose target is already Beyonce-level famous.

How to watch Swarm

amy and danny in beef

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Beef (2023)

Starring: Steven Yeun, Ali Wong

What it's about: The lives of a struggling contractor and a storekeeper who is married to a successful artist undergo drastic changes after they engage in a random road rage incident.

Why it is a show worth watching if you like Baby Reindeer: Donny’s situation with Martha can be traced back to a chance meeting (and a free cup of tea), which is somewhat similar to how the increasingly disastrous (and sometimes quite funny) conflict between Yeun and Wong’s characters came to be in another acclaimed Netflix miniseries called Beef, which is also one of the best A24 TV shows so far.

How to watch Beef

Gillian Anderson on The Fall

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The Fall (2013-2016) 

Starring: Gillian Anderson, Jamie Dornan

What it's about: A detective from London is sent to Belfast, Ireland, to investigate a series of brutal murders, which turn out to be the work of a charismatic husband and father.

Why it is a show worth watching if you like Baby Reindeer: Donny’s relationship with Martha is largely antagonistic (especially on his side), but does gradually form into something a little more complicated in a somewhat similar fashion to the cat and mouse game played by Anderson and Dornan’s characters in the acclaimed U.K. crime series, The Fall

How to watch The Fall

Chris Messina and Kaley Cuoco in Based On a True Story

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Based On A True Story (2023-Present)

Starring: Kaley Cuoco, Chris Messina

What it's about: A real estate agent and her husband, a former tennis player correctly suspect their new acquaintance of being a murderer and decide to start a true crime podcast with him.

Why it is a show worth watching if you like Baby Reindeer: One intriguingly complex aspect of Donny and Martha’s relationship is how he sometimes tricks himself into keeping her involved in his life despite knowing how dangerous she is, which draws some comparison to the plot of Based on a True Story — a dark comedy series exclusively available with a Peacock subscription.

How to watch Based on a True Story

Arabelle in I May Destroy You.

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I May Destroy You (2020)

Starring: Michaela Coel

What it's about: A young woman struggles to come to terms with the realization that she was sexually assaulted on a night she barely remembers.

Why it is a show worth watching if you like Baby Reindeer: One of the most heavily discussed (and heavily upsetting) Baby Reindeer episodes details Donny’s experience with sexual assault, which bears some similarities to the plot of HBO’s Emmy-winning I May Destroy You — another limited dramedy series inspired by its creator's experiences.

How to watch I May Destroy You

Phoebe Waller-Bridge on Fleabag

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Fleabag (2016-2019)

Starring: Phoebe Waller-Bridge

What it's about: A witty woman struggles to navigate adulthood and her love life in modern-day England.

Why it is a show worth watching if you like Baby Reindeer: Much like Baby Reindeer, Fleabag is a U.K.-based dramedy series based on a one-person show that explores the personal traumas of its central character (played by its creator), who also narrates the story, but goes further than Donny’s commentary by breaking the fourth wall at various moments.

How to watch Fleabag

Eric Bana in Dirty John

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Dirty John (2018-2020)

Starring: Various

What it's about: The first season follows two young women who have unfavorable suspicions about their mother’s new boyfriend and the second dramatizes the crime of Betty Broderick.

Why it is a show worth watching if you like Baby Reindeer: There are more shocking true stories about volatile relationships to witness in Dirty John — a USA original seasonal anthology series initially inspired by a true crime podcast of the same name.

How to watch Dirty John

Scene from Can I Tell You a Secret?

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Can I Tell You A Secret? (2024)

Featuring: Savannah Gracey, Fintan Quinn, Amy Pearson

What it's about: The story of an elusive and dangerous cyberstalker, as told by the perpetrator’s victims and those who sought to catch the criminal.

Why it is a show worth watching if you like Baby Reindeer: One of the most notorious cases of stalking in England is detailed in Can I Tell You a Secret? — a two-part true crime docuseries that was also released exclusively on Netflix in 2024.

How to watch Can I Tell You a Secret?

Rosa Salazar sits among a row of dead wedding guests in Wedding Season.

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Wedding Season (2022)

Starring: Gavin Drea, Rosa Salazar

What it's about: Former lovers are reunited in the wake of a shocking tragedy.

Why it is a show worth watching if you like Baby Reindeer: If Baby Reindeer made you curious to check out more of Richard Gadd’s work, he has a role in another British comedy with a very dark edge called Wedding Season, which is available with a Hulu subscription.

How to watch Wedding Season

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Jason Wiese
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Jason Wiese writes feature stories for CinemaBlend. His occupation results from years dreaming of a filmmaking career, settling on a "professional film fan" career, studying journalism at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, MO (where he served as Culture Editor for its student-run print and online publications), and a brief stint of reviewing movies for fun. He would later continue that side-hustle of film criticism on TikTok (@wiesewisdom), where he posts videos on a semi-weekly basis. Look for his name in almost any article about Batman.