“To have to be loving and responsible and nurturing at all times is scary enough': HBO's newest comedy-horror series explores the terrors of motherhood.
HBO’s new British comedy-horror series “The Baby” — about an adorable, yet demonic, newborn — is a prescient reminder of how terrifying life can be as a woman of reproductive age.
The evening she arrives, Natasha is outside smoking when her solace is interrupted by a woman falling out of the sky and splattering on the ground a few feet from her. Not far behind, the titular baby comes tumbling down and lands in Natasha’s outstretched arms. From then on, no matter how much she protests, she just can’t shake the bundle of joy. The little Damien clearly wants Natasha and will get rid of anyone in the way, often opting for a bizarre accident followed by bouncy gurgling.
In multiple ways, the sisters are two sides of the same coin: survivors of an unhappy childhood who emerge with different feelings about childbirth. Through these dichotomies, and storylines that emerge later in the series, the show poses questions about why some people are expected to have children, while others aren’t, and what are the dangers of that.
What she didn’t get “for free,” as a 21-year-old actor, was how much her character thought about motherhood: “It brought up a lot of conversations around the expectation on people who can have children to have children, and how that expectation is imposed from such a young age, and how that sort of forms us as we are now. It’s got me thinking more about it than I ever have before.”
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