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The Baby (TV Series)

The Baby

2022

Lucy Gaymer (Creator), Sian Robins-Grace (Creator) ...

Michelle de Swarte, Amira Ghazalla, Amber Grappy, Bertie George Venn ...

5.5

435

TV Series. Comedy. Horror When 38-year-old Natasha is unexpectedly landed with a baby, her life of doing what she wants, when she wants, dramatically implodes. Controlling, manipulative and with violent powers, the baby twists Natasha's life into a horror show. Where does it come from? What does it want? And what lengths will Natasha have to go to in order to get her life back? She doesn't want a baby. The baby wants her.

	Author	Review
United States	Robyn Bahr The Hollywood Reporter	"With its all-too-easy conclusions about childhood abandonment, 'The Baby' comes across as a horror series created for followers of pop-psych TikTok"	NEU
United States	Mike Hale The New York Times	"A clever, low-key horror comedy that (at its best) matches a helter-skelter rhythm with pinpoint satire, it is also an exploration of the wages of motherhood, or in this case, unmotherhood"	POS
United States	Steve Greene IndieWire	"Michelle de Swarte stars in this eerie collection of ideas about parenting and family, where the individual pieces work better than the whole."	NEU
United States	Tara Ariano Vanity Fair	"What starts as a surreal, frequently gory comedy evolves into something closer to 'elevated horror' in the 'Hereditary' mold. But the change in tone doesn’t make the story any less compelling"	POS
United States	Belen Edwards Mashable	"A killer premise with confusing execution (...) Despite being marketed as a horror-comedy, The Baby lacks particularly meaningful laughs or scares"	NEU
United States	Tara Bennett IGN	"Cheesily produced and lacking consistently sharp wit which is needed to sell a black comedy, 'The Baby' doesn’t bring anything startling or particularly funny to the genre."	NEG
Canada	Josh Bell CBR	"The HBO horror-comedy 'The Baby' jumps between ideas, losing track of its intriguing idea amid too many underdeveloped themes."	NEU
United States	Joel Keller Decider	"A dark comedy with the emphasis on the dark part, but as the secrets of this creepy baby are revealed, the show should become more interesting to watch."	POS
Denmark	Karina Adelgaard Heaven of Horror	"While I did feel that this horror-comedy series had a bit too little horror or comedy at times, I did enjoy it as a whole (...) The story runs a bit too slow at times, but it never stays in the 'slow lane' for too long (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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