Nevertheless, I was expecting a series a bit more self-serious and bracing than that sometimes chirpy black comedy for some reason (this perception probably due to the somewhat dry official BBC trailer for the show, which you can find below, and which is not really very indicative of the admirable tonal balancing act of the final product). I’d also seen I May Destroy You favorably compared to Promising Young Woman (2020), which I thought was pretty great, on a few occasions. I hadn’t seen much of Michaela Coel’s output as either a writer or actress other than the couple of Black Mirror episodes she appears in (in which she was admittedly excellent).īut I had heard good things about her previous series as creator, Chewing Gum (2015-2017). However, after reading yet another article about how I May Destroy You deserved all the awards love it gets (and is perhaps more deserving than other less exceptional offerings getting even more attention), I decided I had to check out its merits for myself. Why I took it off the list: I’d been hearing about how exceptional this series was for a few months now but kept putting off watching it due to the less-than-cheery-sounding subject matter. I May Destroy You (2020) IMDB Description: “The question of sexual consent in contemporary life and how, in the new landscape of dating and relationships, we make the distinction between liberation and exploitation.” I May Destroy You (2020): Worth Checking Out?.Still Manages to Be Funny and Surprising.Paulina Jayne Isaac is a writer and editor based in New Jersey. I May Destroy You is now streaming on HBO. Yeah, don’t expect a neat bow or shock value here- I May Destroy is here to right the wrongs of HBO series past. “Like any other experience I’ve found traumatic, it’s been therapeutic to write about it,” she said. (Check out her series Chewing Gum, available on Netflix, immediately.) Also this: In 2018 she explained at the Edinburgh Television Festival that some of I May Destroy You is pulled from events in her own life. Whatever happened that night will serve as the catalyst for the entire season, and Coel has a reputation for writing realistic, nuanced stories. It’s too early to call, but I doubt that will be the case for I May Destroy You.
Or, as in the case of Game of Thrones, they’re included solely for shock value.
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Too often, depictions of sexual assault in movies and TV are quickly wrapped up in a neat bow, never to be discussed again. Just one example of this is the rape of Sansa (Sophie Turner) in Game of Thrones-Turner defended the graphic scene, but fans and critics alike called out the mostly male writers room for including it.
Sexual assault storylines in pop-culture are prolific, but that doesn’t mean they’re always done right. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. Before she returns home to London, she makes a feeble attempt to broach the “So, what are we?” conversation, but Biagio brushes her off with, “When I’m ready to call you, I call.” (It’s not so harsh, though: Minutes into her cab ride to the airport, he calls.) When we meet her, we learn she’s an author fresh off her first wildly successful book, Chronicles of a Fed-Up Millennial, who’s been staying in Italy with her maybe boyfriend/definite international hookup, Biagio (Marouane Zotti). The British series, written by and starring Coel, begins with a seemingly normal day for Arabella. What begins as an easy-to-follow storyline slowly unravels into something much more complicated and dark-a journey that main character Arabella ( Michaela Coel) also experiences as she unpacks what happened after a hazy night out. But that’s the magic of I May Destroy You. I’ll admit I didn’t know what to expect from the premiere of HBO’s I May Destroy You-the trailer leaves much to be desired-and if I’m being honest, by the time the credits were rolling, I still had no idea what I’m in for as the series continues.
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