Richard Gadd is looking at the ‘dangers of repression’
Richard Gadd, the Emmy Award-winning creator of Baby Reindeer, discusses his new HBO limited series Half Man, a story about two boys who become brothers in 1980s Scotland and the emotional repression that shapes their lives. He rejects reductive labels like 'toxic masculinity' in favo
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