In the course of the series, Arabella becomes a sort of #MeToo “celebrity” - a tricky honorific. As entirely written and co-directed by Coel, it sensitively, messily chronicles her heroine’s journey to recovery - if getting to a better place following such a shattering trauma can be classified so simply. I May Destroy You, a joint production between HBO and BBC One, is an intimate, crushing show it’s an expansive, vibrant show. "I was probably already suffering from PTSD." "It almost sent me around the bend, back into the shock," Coel told NPR in July of making the series. Her experience also inspired a want to explore different perspectives, and how various betrayals of consent can impact people in the long-term. After a period of processing, Coel started to have an interest in dramatizing what had happened to her. While shooting episodes for Season Two of her previous TV foray, comedic coming-of-age tale Chewing Gum, Coel, like Arabella, was drugged and assaulted. I May Destroy You is semi-autobiographical. She also has to pick up the pieces of her shattered self - try to put the Arabella she once was back together. As the memory-fireworks continue with their haphazard schedule, Arabella gets closer to the truth across I May Destroy You's dozen episodes. She can’t remember how she got back to her desk she can’t remember this man’s face - just his panting, his thrusts, his sweat. She starts to remember a bathroom stall she remembers a man. It will take a few days longer for Arabella to know for sure, as memories start to interrupt unrelated trains of thought like fireworks lit on a neighboring street, that her world went blank, that big gash got there, because she was drugged, because she was raped. What’s that from? What Arabella knows for sure is that she is awake and the muse is here. A little into what is supposed to be a brief, fun break, Arabella’s world goes blank, like her brain was a TV, the unsentimental universe wielding a remote. She wakes up, hours later, in front of her desk - was she writing in her sleep? A big gash digs into her forehead. Not because it was the night during which Arabella finished the mostly immaculateįirst draft of the book that would come to be her magnum opus, the work that legendarily disproved the sophomore slump. Maybe that will loosen her up just enough maybe it will relax the muse enough to persuade her to stay over a few hours. Note: If you’re not seeing the updated chart, please try reloading the page or view it here.Ĭable ratings are typically released within a day or so of the show’s airing, except for in the case of weekends and holidays.Arabella, swaggering in her pink wig and stylishly baggy clothes, agrees to go out with friends for a few drinks at a neighborhood bar called the Ego Death. This chart will be updated as new ratings data becomes available. The higher the ratings, the better the chances for survival. The ratings are typically the best indication of a show’s chances of staying on the air. Her drink is spiked with a date-rape drug, and she wakes up with gaps in her memory about what happened. She decides to avoid her agent’s calls and goes out for a drink with a friend. Arabella’s first book, Chronicles of a Fed-Up Millennial, was drawn from her Twitter posts and she’s desperately trying to come up with an idea as her deadline fast approaches. The story is set in London and follows Arabella (Coel), a carefree, self-assured Londoner with a group of great friends, a boyfriend in Italy, and a burgeoning writing career. The series also stars Weruche Opia, Paapa Essiedu, Marouane Zotti, Aml Ameen, Adam James, Sarah Niles, Ann Akin, Harriet Webb, Ellie James, Franc Ashman, Karan Gill, Natalie Walter, and Samson Ajewole. Status Update Below.Ī British comedy-drama series, the I May Destroy You TV show was created by its star, Michaela Coel. Will I May Destroy You be cancelled or renewed for season two? Stay tuned. However, it’s certainly possible that BBC One and HBO will want to bring it back for a second season if the ratings are strong enough. It seems that I May Destroy You may come to a natural conclusion at the end of the first season.
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