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• IN THE BABY, THERE’S NOTHG MORE HORRIFYG THAN MOTHERHOODABANDON ALL HOPE, YE WHO HAVE CHILDREN.BY TARA ARIANOAPRIL 21, 2022BY ROSS FERGUSON/HBO. SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEHERE’S A HORROR PREMISE FOR YOU. YOU’VE SPENT YEARS MAKG A LIFE — A HOME YOU’VE RATED, A REER YOU’VE WORKED TO BUILD, IENDS YOU’VE CULTIVATED, THE PARTNER YOU CHOSE TO SHARE ALL. THEN YOUR WELL-ORRED EXISTENCE IS SUDNLY VAD BY AN UNERNABLE MONSTER. IT MANDS TO BE FED EVERY UPLE OF HOURS. IT SCREAMS YOU AWAKE THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. IT N’T BE LEFT ALONE FOR A SGLE MUTE. IT REQUIR YOU TO CLEAN UP ALL S BODILY FUNCTNS. AND ALL OF THIS MIGHT E AFTER SPENT NE MONTHS AS A PARASE SI YOU, FORCG YOU TO PE EVEN AS YOUR BODY IS STILL RAVAGED OM S OCCUPANCY.HOW DO YOU GET THIS THG OUT OF YOUR LIFE? YOU N’T! YET PEOPLE ARE WILLGLY HAVG BABI ALL THE TIME. COULDN’T BE ME!THE BABY — A LIMED SERI OM HBO AND SKY STUDS, -CREATED BY FIRST-TIME SHOWNNER LUCY GAYMER AND SEX EDUTN -EXECUTIVE PRODUCER SIAN ROBS-GRACE — IS SCRIBED PUBLICY MATERIALS AS A “HORROR EDY”; THAT HBO IS PREMIERG APRIL 24, THE TIME SLOT DIRECTLY FOLLOWG BARRY’S THIRD-SEASON PREMIERE, TELLS YOU SOMETHG ABOUT THE SENSIBILY OF S TEND VIEWER. THE SHOW REVOLV AROUND NATASHA (MICHELLE SWARTE), A CHEF LONDON, WHOM WE MEET AT A POKER NIGHT SHE’S HOSTG FOR HER BT IENDS, MAGS (SHVORNE MARKS) AND RA (ISY SUTTIE). SOON, A BABY STARTS CRYG OFFSCREEN. MAGS RETRIEV THE CHILD AND SOOTH HER AT THE POKER TABLE. BUT AS MAGS KEEPS GETTG DISTRACTED BY HER BABY, THE GOOD VIBE TURNS BAD.THE NEXT DAY, NATASHA HEADS OUT OF TOWN TO A SEASI B. WHAT CHARM THE LOTN HAS IS LOST WHEN NATASHA HEARS A NOISE OUTSI—AND FDS THE RPSE OF A WOMAN WHO’S FALLEN OM THE STEEP CLIFF ABOVE THEM. THEN SOMETHG ELSE FALLS OM THE CLIFF: A BABY (ALBIE AND ARTHUR HILLS), WHO LANDS FORTABLY NATASHA’S ARMS. THOUGH NATASHA TRI TO LEAVE THE FANT AT THE NEART POLICE STATN, , DON’T WANT TO LET HER GO: SOON REAPPEARS A LNDRY BASKET ON HER DOORSTEP. THE MORE (FORCED) TIME NATASHA AND THE BABY SPEND TOGETHER, THE MORE SHE UNRSTANDS THAT HE — OR ? — TLY IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE WH NO PUNCTN ABOUT MAIMG OR KILLG ANYONE TO ACHIEVE HIS ENDS. (HE DON’T EXACTLY M ANY MURRS HIMSELF — HE HAS THE SAME PHYSIL LIMATNS AS ANY BABY OF, SAY, SEVEN MONTHS. BUT THE BABY DO HAVE SUPERNATURAL POWERS, LIKE THE ABILY TO PEL OLR PEOPLE TO DO HIS BIDDG; THK CHARL MANSON CROSSED WH AN EVIL PROFSOR X.NATASHA’S ALREADY ON THE OUTS WH HER IENDS WHEN THE BABY ARRIV: THAT FIRST SCENE WH RA AND MAGS IS A BRILLIANTLY OBSERVED ONE-ACT PLAY ABOUT THE ICTN THAT N ARISE AS SOME PEOPLE A IEND GROUP START HAVG KIDS: BUT WHAT MAK THE BABY MORE THAN A ONE-JOKE STORY IS THE EMPATHY HAS FOR PEOPLE AT EVERY POT ON THE PARENTG SPECTM. AS GO ON, WE MEET NATASHA’S TRANGED YOUNGER SISTER BOBBI (AMBER GRAPPY) AND HER PARTNER SAM (GENIS LYNEA), BOTH WOMEN, WHO ARE ANX ABOUT GETTG APPROVED TO ADOPT. WE ALSO MEET BARBARA (SéAD CACK), NATASHA AND BOBBI’S MOTHER, WHOSE PARTURE OM THE FAY THEIR CHILDHOOD FORCED NATASHA TO GROW UP TOO SOON (AND CI, AS AN ADULT, THAT PARENTHOOD WAS NOT FOR HER). AN EXTEND FLASHBACK TRODUC TO HELEN (TANYA REYNOLDS), FORCED TO GIVE BIRTH TO A BABY WHO WAS NOT NCEIVED LOVE. WE ALSO LEARN TO FEEL FOR MAGS, WHOSE TRANSN TO PARENTHOOD IS ROUGH GOG : “ALL I WANT IS A BT MATE WHO DON’T JUDGE ME FOR BEG A MUM,” SHE TELLS NATASHA. “’CSE YOU KNOW WHAT? I ALREADY FEEL LIKE I’M FAILG AT , ALL THE TIME.” THE ONLY MOTHER THE SHOW SEEMS TO TREAT AS FUNDAMENTALLY UNF IS THE ONE AT THE MUNE WHERE BARBARA NOW LIV, BEE SHE WON’T LET THE KIDS EAT THE CHOLATE S BOBBI GIV THEM. (HONTLY: SAME.)NATASHA’S EXPERIENCE WH THE BABY DO GIVE HER EMPATHY FOR MAGS, BEE THE BABY SENTIALLY REWR NATASHA’S MEETG HIM, RA’S (LOGIL) FIRST QUTN IS TO ASK NATASHA HOW SHE ME TO POSSSN OF A BABY. BUT ONLY MOMENTS LATER, SHE’S TREATG NATASHA’S ANXIETY AS THOUGH IS POSTPARTUM PRSN, OFFERG TO TAKE THE BABY FOR A WALK TO GIVE NATASHA A BREAK. NATASHA STAT THAT THE BABY IS NOT HER BABY, AND RA — WHO JT 36 HOURS EARLIER WAS DISAPPOTED BY NATASHA’S SULKY REACTN TO LEARNG THAT RA IS PREGNANT — GENTLY REPLI, “WELL. IT IS. ARE YOU ALL RIGHT? ARE YOU STGGLG?”AS NATASHA TRAC THE BABY’S PATH BACKWARDS, WE UNRSTAND THAT PART OF HIS DARK MAGIC IS TO DO THIS WH EACH WOMAN HE CHOOS TO BE HIS HOST—DRAG HER DRY BEFORE MOVG ON TO THE NEXT ONE. IS THE BABY ANYONE’S BABY? DO MATTER? ISN’T EVERY WOMAN WH A BABY JT A MOTHER?WHAT STARTS AS A SURREAL, EQUENTLY GORY EDY EVOLV, OVER THE SIX EPISOS MA AVAILABLE FOR ADVANCE SCREENG, TO SOMETHG CLOSER TO “ELEVATED HORROR” THE HEREDARY MOLD. BUT THE CHANGE TONE DON’T MAKE THE STORY ANY LS PELLG, AND THE TENSN CREATED BY NATASHA’S ATTEMPT TO SOLVE HER PROBLEM BY SOLVG THE BABY’S ECHO THE DIFFICULTI OF RG FOR A CHILD, EVEN ONE WHO ISN’T HOMICIDAL. A SCENE THE FOURTH EPISO, “THE MOTHER,” FDS THE BABY HELPLSLY SCREAMG A CRIB WHILE NATASHA STANDS BEFORE HIM IMPLORG, “WHAT DO YOU WANT? WHAT DO YOU WANT?!” ANYONE WHO HAS EVER LOOKED AFTER AN FANT N RELATE.MOST POPULAR25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISFIRST LOOK: ANTE BENG SWIMS TOWARD THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME NYADBY DAVID CANFIELDCHARLIZE THERON DENI PLASTIC SURGERY RUMORS: “BCH, I’M JT AGG!”BY SAVANNAH WALSHIN RECENT YEARS, SHOWS LIKE THE LETDOWN, BETTER THGS, AND CATASTROPHE, AMONG OTHERS, HAVE BRAVELY UNTERED THE NVENTNAL WISDOM THAT PARENTG WILL E NATURALLY TO ANYONE WHO JT WANTS ENOUGH—AND THAT THERE’S SOMETHG WRONG WH THOSE WHO DON’T WANT . THE BABY GO TO ABSURD EXTREM TO DRAMATIZE HOW HORRIBLE PARENTG N BE FOR THOSE WHO DON’T GO TO WH CLEAR TENTNS… AND HOW ALSO KD OF SUCKS, SOMETIM, EVEN FOR THOSE WHO DO.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— THE “HOT MS” DUCHS AT THE CENTER OF A ’60S SEX SNDAL— JTICE FOR GIRLS: LOOKG BACK ON THE SHOW 10 YEARS LATER— THE JOHNNY DEPP–AMBER HEARD TRIAL: HOW DID IT COME TO THIS?— AMANDA SEYIED WANTS TO REPRISE HER ROLE AS ELIZABETH HOLM— HOW THE CAST OF THIS IS US WON EQUAL PAY— WILL SMH BANNED FROM THE OSRS FOR 10 YEARS AFTER THE SLAP— NETFLIX’S THE ULTIMATUM OFFERS A SADISTIC TWIST ON REALY ROMANCE— FROM THE ARCHIVE: HOW DAVID ZASLAV BEME AMERI’S KG OF CONTENT— SIGN UP FOR THE “HWD DAILY” NEWSLETTER FOR MT-READ DTRY AND AWARDS VERAGE—PL A SPECIAL WEEKLY EDN OF “AWARDS INSIR.”TARA ARIANO
• LUCY GAYMER

IN THE BABY, THERE’S NOTHG MORE HORRIFYG THAN MOTHERHOODABANDON ALL HOPE, YE WHO HAVE CHILDREN.BY TARA ARIANOAPRIL 21, 2022BY ROSS FERGUSON/HBO. SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEHERE’S A HORROR PREMISE FOR YOU. YOU’VE SPENT YEARS MAKG A LIFE — A HOME YOU’VE RATED, A REER YOU’VE WORKED TO BUILD, IENDS YOU’VE CULTIVATED, THE PARTNER YOU CHOSE TO SHARE ALL. THEN YOUR WELL-ORRED EXISTENCE IS SUDNLY VAD BY AN UNERNABLE MONSTER. IT MANDS TO BE FED EVERY UPLE OF HOURS. IT SCREAMS YOU AWAKE THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. IT N’T BE LEFT ALONE FOR A SGLE MUTE. IT REQUIR YOU TO CLEAN UP ALL S BODILY FUNCTNS. AND ALL OF THIS MIGHT E AFTER SPENT NE MONTHS AS A PARASE SI YOU, FORCG YOU TO PE EVEN AS YOUR BODY IS STILL RAVAGED OM S OCCUPANCY.HOW DO YOU GET THIS THG OUT OF YOUR LIFE? YOU N’T! YET PEOPLE ARE WILLGLY HAVG BABI ALL THE TIME. COULDN’T BE ME!THE BABY — A LIMED SERI OM HBO AND SKY STUDS, -CREATED BY FIRST-TIME SHOWNNER LUCY GAYMER AND SEX EDUTN -EXECUTIVE PRODUCER SIAN ROBS-GRACE — IS SCRIBED PUBLICY MATERIALS AS A “HORROR EDY”; THAT HBO IS PREMIERG APRIL 24, THE TIME SLOT DIRECTLY FOLLOWG BARRY’S THIRD-SEASON PREMIERE, TELLS YOU SOMETHG ABOUT THE SENSIBILY OF S TEND VIEWER. THE SHOW REVOLV AROUND NATASHA (MICHELLE SWARTE), A CHEF LONDON, WHOM WE MEET AT A POKER NIGHT SHE’S HOSTG FOR HER BT IENDS, MAGS (SHVORNE MARKS) AND RA (ISY SUTTIE). SOON, A BABY STARTS CRYG OFFSCREEN. MAGS RETRIEV THE CHILD AND SOOTH HER AT THE POKER TABLE. BUT AS MAGS KEEPS GETTG DISTRACTED BY HER BABY, THE GOOD VIBE TURNS BAD.THE NEXT DAY, NATASHA HEADS OUT OF TOWN TO A SEASI B. WHAT CHARM THE LOTN HAS IS LOST WHEN NATASHA HEARS A NOISE OUTSI—AND FDS THE RPSE OF A WOMAN WHO’S FALLEN OM THE STEEP CLIFF ABOVE THEM. THEN SOMETHG ELSE FALLS OM THE CLIFF: A BABY (ALBIE AND ARTHUR HILLS), WHO LANDS FORTABLY NATASHA’S ARMS. THOUGH NATASHA TRI TO LEAVE THE FANT AT THE NEART POLICE STATN, , DON’T WANT TO LET HER GO: SOON REAPPEARS A LNDRY BASKET ON HER DOORSTEP. THE MORE (FORCED) TIME NATASHA AND THE BABY SPEND TOGETHER, THE MORE SHE UNRSTANDS THAT HE — OR ? — TLY IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE WH NO PUNCTN ABOUT MAIMG OR KILLG ANYONE TO ACHIEVE HIS ENDS. (HE DON’T EXACTLY M ANY MURRS HIMSELF — HE HAS THE SAME PHYSIL LIMATNS AS ANY BABY OF, SAY, SEVEN MONTHS. BUT THE BABY DO HAVE SUPERNATURAL POWERS, LIKE THE ABILY TO PEL OLR PEOPLE TO DO HIS BIDDG; THK CHARL MANSON CROSSED WH AN EVIL PROFSOR X.NATASHA’S ALREADY ON THE OUTS WH HER IENDS WHEN THE BABY ARRIV: THAT FIRST SCENE WH RA AND MAGS IS A BRILLIANTLY OBSERVED ONE-ACT PLAY ABOUT THE ICTN THAT N ARISE AS SOME PEOPLE A IEND GROUP START HAVG KIDS: BUT WHAT MAK THE BABY MORE THAN A ONE-JOKE STORY IS THE EMPATHY HAS FOR PEOPLE AT EVERY POT ON THE PARENTG SPECTM. AS GO ON, WE MEET NATASHA’S TRANGED YOUNGER SISTER BOBBI (AMBER GRAPPY) AND HER PARTNER SAM (GENIS LYNEA), BOTH WOMEN, WHO ARE ANX ABOUT GETTG APPROVED TO ADOPT. WE ALSO MEET BARBARA (SéAD CACK), NATASHA AND BOBBI’S MOTHER, WHOSE PARTURE OM THE FAY THEIR CHILDHOOD FORCED NATASHA TO GROW UP TOO SOON (AND CI, AS AN ADULT, THAT PARENTHOOD WAS NOT FOR HER). AN EXTEND FLASHBACK TRODUC TO HELEN (TANYA REYNOLDS), FORCED TO GIVE BIRTH TO A BABY WHO WAS NOT NCEIVED LOVE. WE ALSO LEARN TO FEEL FOR MAGS, WHOSE TRANSN TO PARENTHOOD IS ROUGH GOG : “ALL I WANT IS A BT MATE WHO DON’T JUDGE ME FOR BEG A MUM,” SHE TELLS NATASHA. “’CSE YOU KNOW WHAT? I ALREADY FEEL LIKE I’M FAILG AT , ALL THE TIME.” THE ONLY MOTHER THE SHOW SEEMS TO TREAT AS FUNDAMENTALLY UNF IS THE ONE AT THE MUNE WHERE BARBARA NOW LIV, BEE SHE WON’T LET THE KIDS EAT THE CHOLATE S BOBBI GIV THEM. (HONTLY: SAME.)NATASHA’S EXPERIENCE WH THE BABY DO GIVE HER EMPATHY FOR MAGS, BEE THE BABY SENTIALLY REWR NATASHA’S MEETG HIM, RA’S (LOGIL) FIRST QUTN IS TO ASK NATASHA HOW SHE ME TO POSSSN OF A BABY. BUT ONLY MOMENTS LATER, SHE’S TREATG NATASHA’S ANXIETY AS THOUGH IS POSTPARTUM PRSN, OFFERG TO TAKE THE BABY FOR A WALK TO GIVE NATASHA A BREAK. NATASHA STAT THAT THE BABY IS NOT HER BABY, AND RA — WHO JT 36 HOURS EARLIER WAS DISAPPOTED BY NATASHA’S SULKY REACTN TO LEARNG THAT RA IS PREGNANT — GENTLY REPLI, “WELL. IT IS. ARE YOU ALL RIGHT? ARE YOU STGGLG?”AS NATASHA TRAC THE BABY’S PATH BACKWARDS, WE UNRSTAND THAT PART OF HIS DARK MAGIC IS TO DO THIS WH EACH WOMAN HE CHOOS TO BE HIS HOST—DRAG HER DRY BEFORE MOVG ON TO THE NEXT ONE. IS THE BABY ANYONE’S BABY? DO MATTER? ISN’T EVERY WOMAN WH A BABY JT A MOTHER?WHAT STARTS AS A SURREAL, EQUENTLY GORY EDY EVOLV, OVER THE SIX EPISOS MA AVAILABLE FOR ADVANCE SCREENG, TO SOMETHG CLOSER TO “ELEVATED HORROR” THE HEREDARY MOLD. BUT THE CHANGE TONE DON’T MAKE THE STORY ANY LS PELLG, AND THE TENSN CREATED BY NATASHA’S ATTEMPT TO SOLVE HER PROBLEM BY SOLVG THE BABY’S ECHO THE DIFFICULTI OF RG FOR A CHILD, EVEN ONE WHO ISN’T HOMICIDAL. A SCENE THE FOURTH EPISO, “THE MOTHER,” FDS THE BABY HELPLSLY SCREAMG A CRIB WHILE NATASHA STANDS BEFORE HIM IMPLORG, “WHAT DO YOU WANT? WHAT DO YOU WANT?!” ANYONE WHO HAS EVER LOOKED AFTER AN FANT N RELATE.MOST POPULAR25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISFIRST LOOK: ANTE BENG SWIMS TOWARD THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME NYADBY DAVID CANFIELDCHARLIZE THERON DENI PLASTIC SURGERY RUMORS: “BCH, I’M JT AGG!”BY SAVANNAH WALSHIN RECENT YEARS, SHOWS LIKE THE LETDOWN, BETTER THGS, AND CATASTROPHE, AMONG OTHERS, HAVE BRAVELY UNTERED THE NVENTNAL WISDOM THAT PARENTG WILL E NATURALLY TO ANYONE WHO JT WANTS ENOUGH—AND THAT THERE’S SOMETHG WRONG WH THOSE WHO DON’T WANT . THE BABY GO TO ABSURD EXTREM TO DRAMATIZE HOW HORRIBLE PARENTG N BE FOR THOSE WHO DON’T GO TO WH CLEAR TENTNS… AND HOW ALSO KD OF SUCKS, SOMETIM, EVEN FOR THOSE WHO DO.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— THE “HOT MS” DUCHS AT THE CENTER OF A ’60S SEX SNDAL— JTICE FOR GIRLS: LOOKG BACK ON THE SHOW 10 YEARS LATER— THE JOHNNY DEPP–AMBER HEARD TRIAL: HOW DID IT COME TO THIS?— AMANDA SEYIED WANTS TO REPRISE HER ROLE AS ELIZABETH HOLM— HOW THE CAST OF THIS IS US WON EQUAL PAY— WILL SMH BANNED FROM THE OSRS FOR 10 YEARS AFTER THE SLAP— NETFLIX’S THE ULTIMATUM OFFERS A SADISTIC TWIST ON REALY ROMANCE— FROM THE ARCHIVE: HOW DAVID ZASLAV BEME AMERI’S KG OF CONTENT— SIGN UP FOR THE “HWD DAILY” NEWSLETTER FOR MT-READ DTRY AND AWARDS VERAGE—PL A SPECIAL WEEKLY EDN OF “AWARDS INSIR.”TARA ARIANO

The Baby — a limed seri om HBO and Sky Studs, -created by first-time shownner Lucy Gaymer and Sex Edutn -executive producer Sian Robs-Grace — is scribed publicy materials as a “horror edy”; that HBO is premierg April 24, the time slot directly followg Barry’s third-season premiere, tells you somethg about the sensibily of s tend viewer.

Reviewg Siân Robs-Grace and Lucy Gaymer's engagg "horror edy, " which premier on Sunday, prents an tertg challenge, bee 's got big Rsian Doll energy; the viewer is jt as the dark as to the l of the realm as the puzzled protagonist who fds herself at the mercy of some tly disturbg forc. ”She spoke of sortg through those feelgs wh the -creator Lucy Gaymer while they were on a 2019 trip to Machu Picchu Pe.

Prevly, Robs-Grace had been an executive producer on Netflix’s “Sex Edutn, ” while Gaymer had worked primarily as a TV productn manager. Filmg took place across England between June and November a vio ll om their vatn on the Greek island of Corfu, Robs-Grace and Gaymer talked about the growg trend of materny-based thrillers, their shiftg perspectiv on parenthood and what “The Baby” has to say about reproductive rights. The poor ltle creatur are jt gettg born, and they’re not askg for , but they create all this GAYMER I had this ia: What if the cg cint was a baby fallg out of the sky and a woman her 30s, who knows she didn’t want children, tch the baby?

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The Baby, a new Brish dark edy by Lucy Gaymer and Siân Robs-Grace, jos this new-born non by explorg motherhood through the perspective of a woman who has no sire to ever have a child but gets stuck wh one anyway.

Lucy Gaymer... Hoi Cosgaya Garcia... Lucy Gaymer and Sian Robs-Grace have taken our ep-rooted fears and phobias and have been able to give them a supernatural tge, the Brish limed seri, “The Baby.