![]() I May Destroy You follows the life of London blogger Arabella (Cole) propelled to sudden fame by a hit best seller, she's trying to find something relevant to say for the difficult second album. There's a small list of films and television shows that have profoundly affected me either because they have created an awareness on a subject I was previously completed misinformed on (Hillsborough) or have impacted me so deeply I became an activist (And the Band Played On) while others have just connected with me on an emotional level for more personal reasons and in the case of IMDY, it was certainly the latter and partly about timing. ![]() It's brilliant and has left me excited for Coel's next project. It's about consent, the shades of grey, the acceptance/lack of it, how we understand it and how it's interpreted by the aggressor and victim.How sexual assault survivors cope with the aftermath and then have to exist with daily life. They didn't understand that it's not meant to be a whodunnit or sanitised portrayal of sexual assault according to how society expects victims to behave. I can only say that those people appear to have completely missed the story being told. I'm confused by the lower scores claiming it should be a thriller or that the characters are one dimensional when we see the depth in their nuanced facial expressions and fleeting moments of raw honesty between friends. yes, people get wasted, do drugs and shock, horror they talk to their friends when on the loo. better yet don't compare it to anything at all. It's witty and real, covers some of the darker life scenes that aren't ordinarily placed on the screen. It's not a sitcom or light comedy, it's devastating at times, yet humorous. It's not meant to be girlfriends or SATC and it doesn't pretend to be. Some hard hitting scenes mixed in with Michaela Coel style dark humour. The awful things that happen to Arabella aren’t reserved for people in fictional stories or clichéd horror movies.Loved it! As a young British woman from London it's very relatable, from language to interactions. Coel plays her character brilliantly, with defiant wit and nuance. It’s an eye-opening, game-changing new show from one of Britain’s brightest talents. The same angle, on the same man, that Arabella can’t remember. Scenes are peppered with blink-and-you’ll-miss-them images, the same traumatic frames are repeated over and over. It flits between flashbacks of holidays and past flings, then back to present day police interrogations. Credit: BBCĪs mentioned previously, I May Destroy You tells its story through snatches of memory. ‘I May Destroy You’ arrives on BBC One on June 8. The soundtrack helps, too: a selection of infectious tunes by Easy Life, Sons of Kemet, DJ Medhi and more will make you want to go out dancing immediately. Date rape is the threat and the damage, but that doesn’t prevent Arabella from leading a sex-positive life, or partaking in recreational drugs with her best friend Terry (Weruche Opia) – be it MDMA, coke or ketamine. Not everyone has a smartphone, not everyone has a smartphone, not everyone has a smartphone.” With such wry comedy, an acknowledgement of the bigger picture – of privilege that manifests in class and wealth as much as gender and race – is executed tastefully and wittily.įor the most part, the story’s relationship with sex and drugs is paradoxical, and deeply intelligent. “There are hungry children, there are hungry children, there are hungry children. ![]() In moments of panic, when Arabella doesn’t want to inconvenience anyone, she repeats to herself a few meditative messages. As Arabella’s hedonistic, carefree lifestyle shatters, other people help her reconstruct the incident that brought everything crashing down. She doesn’t recall how she got home, or how she got the scar on her forehead.Įlsewhere, Coel walks a fine line with the show’s tone – its comic moments are boisterous, but there is also great sensitivity on display. Flashes of memory keep returning, images of a man looming over something, or someone. It does all that, and does it well, but the catalyst for everything is a violent event that Arabella can’t even remember. ![]() But this isn’t just a slice-of-life miniseries focusing on a young Black woman feeling her way through the big city. She plays Arabella, a talented young writer celebrated for her first book, now scrambling to meet the deadline for her second. Like trying to put a jigsaw puzzle together while someone is hiding half the pieces, Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You forces the viewer to fill in some of the plot at the same time as its protagonist – and it may be foolhardy to expect every question to be answered by the end.Ĭoel ( Chewing Gum) writes and stars in the show – a vibrant, entertaining London-set drama with a ferocious intensity. ![]()
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