THIS WEEK’S CHOICE
Drama written by, and starring, Michaela Coel and set in London. I May Destroy You centres on Arabella (Coel), a care-free, self-assured Londoner with a group of great friends, a holiday fling-turned aspirational boyfriend in Italy, and a burgeoning writing career. But when she is spiked with a daterape drug, she must question and rebuild every element of her life.
Feted as the ‘voice of her generation’, Arabella is highly talented. But, distracted by the pressures of her first triumph, she is struggling to write her second novel and is in danger of becoming destructive and self-absorbed. After being sexually assaulted in a nightclub, her life changes irreversibly and Arabella is forced to reassess everything: her career, her friends, even her family.
As she struggles to come to terms with what has happened, she begins a journey of self-discovery. Often painful, sometimes funny, it leads her to some surprising places and controversial conclusions.
After visiting her aspirational longdistance boyfriend in Italy, burgeoning writer Arabella (Michaela Coel) returns to London, where she’s greeted by a deluge of frantic messages from her literary agents. With a matter of hours left to finish a draft of her second book, she plans to pull an all-nighter - but is soon tempted to join a friend on a night out.
“Arabella must understand that everything is connected, that she is connected even to the thing she despises the most: her trauma. Across the 12 episodes, she learns that allowing herself to disassociate from what she struggles to accept can have unsavoury consequences.”