This is also personal for Coel, who based I May Destroy You on her own experience of sexual assault while under the pressure of making the second season of Chewing Gum. It’s also quite possible that the destruction is headed toward Arabella.Ĭoel, who’s also the creative force behind the bitingly funny Chewing Gum, deftly moves into dramatic territory unafraid of creating an entire show around a topic many might still feel uncomfortable bringing up to a therapist. The title suggests Arabella fights back, but we’re not there yet. In other words, she’s like many other working millennial women out there, having survived the first set of hurdles of young adulthood and figuring out what’s next when faced with a sexual assault that threatens everything. She’s got plenty of friends but can’t quite sort out her love life. She’s still got a flatmate and feels under pressure to deliver a successful follow-up.
It’s not the kind of fame that gives her a fancy condo in London’s most posh neighborhood.
We learn that she’s a famous author - well, at least on Twitter. “Eyes, Eyes, Eyes, Eyes” plays like a prelude to the chaos that will upend Arabella’s life, slowly introducing the main character until a flashback stops her cold. Once safe at home, something clicks in her mind that hadn’t before, triggering the half-forgotten memory of a sexual assault. When did that happen? She leaves the building but struggles to find her way to her place, as if she were walking through the haze of a heavy migraine. Not only is her meeting a disaster, she’s somehow picked up a cut on her forehead and her phone was smashed at some point. She showers and preps for her meeting with her agents later that morning, but something is still off. There’s a quick jump forward, and it seems like our hero has rallied, gotten herself back into the office and sent in her draft on time. No one helps her as she stumbles past them, gripping onto chairs and losing her footing. She knocks a glass over, her hand unsteadily grabs napkins and straws while trying to regain her balance. Arabella starts to lose control of her body. Suddenly, what seemed like a fast-paced night of fun slows down.
Eventually, her need for friends wins over and Arabella escapes to meet them for a trip to a bar, where she sets, and then ignores, a reminder to get back to work. Put out by his response, Arabella waffles between going out with Simon (Aml Ameen) and Kat (Lara Rossi) to get rid of her blues or hunkering down to meet her book’s impending deadline.
She tries - and fails - to talk about their undefined relationship, a conversation he waves off as he throws her luggage in the trunk and wishes her well on her trip back to London. Was it too many drinks? Was it something else? Is your mind playing tricks or were those foggy memories actually waking nightmares? It’s a terrible prospect to piece together what really happened, a terror writer and star Michaela Coel recreates in painful detail, starting with the events leading up to that night.Īlthough she’s running out of time on her new book’s deadline, Arabella (Coel) takes a detour to visit her long-distance Italian boyfriend Biagio (Marouane Zotti). You go out to have fun with friends and end up with only a hazy recollection of the night’s events.
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The premise of HBO’s new series I May Destroy You is sadly an all-too-common Me Too story.
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