This suspenseful, comic series about a possessed baby that literally falls into a single woman’s life has an eerily dystopian feel – especially in light of the US clampdown on abortion rights
This Sky Atlantic miniseries is billed as a comedy-horror. In fact – at least to those mums who would not classify ourselves as earth mothers – it is more or less documentary. Created, written, directed and executive-produced by an entirely female team, The Baby will – depending what stage of the process you are at – catapult you back to the early days of unnatural motherhood or offer you a reasonable explanation of your current suffering: your baby is possessed and wants you dead. It is very well done.
If you are not yet in that process – or have decided against ever ripening your own crotch-fruit – then it will do much to encourage you to keep taking the tablets/slipping on the condoms/hieing yourself to a nunnery. The Baby’s 38-year-old protagonist, Natasha (Michelle de Swarte), will applaud your choice.
