![]() Once you understand the characters and their relationships it becomes easy to slide into the story and become emotionally invested in the show’s intriguing cast of characters. It’s nuanced, smart, funny, charming, and honest as hell. Now, lest you think that I May Destroy You is a humorless slog through dark deeds and thoughts, it’s decidedly not. She’s unafraid to “go there” and force her characters to confront the darker aspects of themselves and others. But Coel (who wrote all 12 episodes herself and co-directed most with Sam Miller) has such a deft narrative touch that even the heaviest of topics are digestible without too much work on the part of the audience. What follows that inciting incident explores facets of the modern hook-up culture, the confusion and uneasiness surrounding definitions of sexual assault and rape, the deep-seeded shame in sexuality – particularly for women and within the Black gay community, and fear of looking too deeply at oneself out of the uncertainty of what you will find looking back. It’s like comparing apples and oranges: useless.įor the uninitiated, I May Destroy You stars Coel as Arabella, a Millennial writer in London whose drink is spiked on a night out with friends (to say much more would both trivialize the story and spoil key elements, so I’ll be as vague as possible – although in-depth looks at the series abound online). However, Fleabag and I May Destroy You come from very different places and are attempting to tell very different stories. * Coel and Waller-Bridge have some overlap in the topics of their most seminal work, namely a refusal to look at female sexuality as something to be ashamed of. And while there have already been far too many attempts to pigeon-hole Coel’s work and compare her to Phoebe Waller-Bridge*, Coel’s work here is original and singular and all her own. What Michaela Coel has constructed with this complex, compelling, and emotionally visceral series is nothing short of amazing. That may sound like a grandiose statement, but give it a couple of episodes and I suspect you’ll agree. Given that Black and women story tellers are too often excluded from sharing their experiences in the mainstream and under-represented on TV, I May Destroy You is an important example of the brilliant, thought-provoking work that is created when Black women are given the space to speak their truths.HBO’s I May Destroy You is the best show currently airing on television. "She also succeeded in making Arabella a deeply flawed character who we want to shake in one moment, but protect her by all means necessary in the next," she added. Metro's Cydney Yeates gave the show four-and-a-half stars, saying Coel "manages to capture the fraught anxiety of Arabella's circumstance." ![]() TV critics have widely praised the series, with many giving glowing four and five star reviews. Across the 12 episodes she learns that allowing herself to disassociate from what she struggles to accept can have unsavoury consequences." ![]() "Arabella must understand that everything is connected, that she is connected even to the thing she despises the most: her trauma. On the subject of the character's journey over the 12 episodes, Coel added: Beyond her work she lives in a two-bed flat-share in Hackney and has a cool group of friends, also trying to find themselves within this little concrete jungle." ![]() She’s now got an agent, and there’s a sudden professional demand for her writing. After a spontaneous piece of writing of hers goes viral on the internet she receives a commission to write a book. "Arabella is Londoner, a lover of life and a lover of Twitter.
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