Michaela Coel as Arabella in I May Destroy You. Arabella (Coel) and her friends Terry (Weruche Opia) and Kwame (Paapa Essiedu) experience moments of joy, and the series’ third episode, “Don’t Forget the Sea,” epitomizes the show’s tone, careening between horror and hilarity as Terry wanders the streets of Italy alone and Arabella dances on tables at a club. Traditionally, sexual assault narratives have focused on victimhood in isolation, but Coel explores more complex definitions of “victim” and “assault” that showcase just how communal these experiences actually are.Īt the same time, it’s also one of HBO’s funniest new shows. It also refuses to let its central assault define the entirety of the series, and Coel's intuition and genius is the driving force behind the show’s ability to thrive within ever-shifting perspectives. It is, undoubtedly, one of the best new shows of the year, unflinching in the way it reimagines narratives for victims of sexual assault on television. When I May Destroy You debuted in June, it was greeted with immediate praise. “I might as well do what I've been doing every day, which is sitting down.” “You can’t really engage with that,” she says over Zoom. With I May Destroy You, the world has finally rushed to recognize Coel’s genius, but she’s not letting it phase her. You already know she had to fight with the likes of CAA and Netflix to make the show on her terms, even after creating the hit show Chewing Gum.
She also co-directed nine episodes of the series. By now, you probably already know that Michaela Coel wrote all twelve episodes of I May Destroy You’s first season.
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