Jessica Gunning

Jessica Gunning plays Martha Scott on Baby Reindeer (Netflix, 2024), the 2020s seven-episode limited series that refuses easy victim/villain cartoons. Richard Gadd across the wound; autobiographical nightmare comedy about stalking, trauma, and viral aftershocks.

Martha is the volcano — a hard watch with precise craft, not a true-crime snack. Gunning sells obsession as a person, not a headline. The aftershocks are part of the file; the performance is the weather.

Jessica Gunning’s Martha Scott made Baby Reindeer volcanic — seven episodes that refuse easy victim/villain cartoons, autobiographical nightmare comedy about stalking, trauma, and viral aftershocks. A hard watch with precise craft, not a true-crime snack. That temperature belongs to Baby Reindeer on Netflix (2024), with Martha Scott as the reason the hour still has a body.

Enter Baby Reindeer at s01e01: The limited-series door: autobiographical nightmare comedy opening without a true-crime snack frame, Gadd and Gunning already volcanic. If you want the hour that still shows the bruise, hold s01e07: The seventh hour as aftershock: viral success dragging real-world speculation into a run that still refuses easy victim-villain cartoons. A third pin is s01e02: Second confession beat: the kindness trap tightening, nightmare-comedy craft still preferring discomfort to a clean moral diagram.

On TV Flash she is the dare. Watch the craft; do not treat it as a clip. We file Gunning as 2020s limited-series steel: the Scott who made a nightmare photograph as a human, still the reason Baby Reindeer hurts after the credits and not only during them. The catalog does not need a recap. It needs Martha Scott standing where Baby Reindeer put them.