Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore.Įmail us at production by Rosemary Belson. Does Arabella regain her full memories of her sexual assault? Will she be able to finish her book? Will she accept the help from another acquaintance who she believes to have raped her? How does she use fantasy to imagine a better resolution for herself than reality can give her? The series follows her as she works through the aftermath of her assault. (teawithqj) on Instagram: A NEW episode of teawithqj podcast is up 265 I May Destroy You We do a SPOILER. Coel covers consent, rape, friendship, and empathy, in a complex, yet compelling, way that really humanizes Arabella.Īrabella is a young writer and influencer working on her second book when her drink was drugged and raped while at a bar in London. 148 likes, 7 comments - Tea with Queen & J. Besides writing and producing the show, she directed many episodes and plays the main character, Arabella Essiedu. Ted Lasso, the Euphoria Christmas special and Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You are among the 60 Peabody Award nominees for 2021, the organization’s board of jurors announced Tuesday. Michaela Coel is at the heart of this series. In the world of I May Destroy You, the critically hailed HBO/BBC series written, co-directed by and starring Michaela Coel, few things are ever static. This week, Slate’s television critic Willa Paskin is joined by Vulture staff writer Angelica Jade Bastién to spoil I May Destroy You. Kovie Biakolo ( is a writer, editor, and multiculturalism scholar specializing in culture and identity.On the Spoiler Special podcast, Slate critics discuss movies, the occasional TV show, and, once in a blue moon, another podcast, in full spoiler-filled detail. I May Destroy You started production in July 2019 with a 96-day shoot. In I May Destroy You, Coel is asking the viewer to recreate a different story about the things that hurt us, in order to empower us. In the end, for the characters on I May Destroy You, it is in coming to terms with an incident one always questioned, or in allowing others to treat you with kindness, or in reimaging the events that tried to destroy us, that allow transformation from trauma. The failures of official systems used to assist survivors is present, as is the utility and inadequacy of social media as platform to share one’s struggles or become a voice for a community in the midst of one’s own struggle. At first, she is simply incapable, instead opting for dubious “self-care” activities with Terry, while Kwame elects to use his sexuality to overcome his suffering. Yet that clarity of bearing and propagating trauma doesn’t exist on a victim-perpetrator duality, and even in the incidents that leave the characters aggrieved, there is a context of an already formed conglomerate of pain present the hurts synthesize with each other.Īrabella’s journey from harm to healing on I May Destroy You involves coming to terms with that synthetization of pain. HBO’s I May Destroy You calls into question the idea of sexual consent in contemporary life and how, in the new landscape of dating and relationships, we make the distinction between. The harm experienced by the show’s characters are made clear, including how the depths of consent and sexual assault are so intricate that one might unknowingly experience such harm, and be unaware of it - until they aren’t. I May Destroy You The 50 greatest HBO shows ever ranked Youve got to bask in the sun of life: actor Sarah Niles on her newfound acclaim Paapa Essiedu on. In support of Michaela Coels new show I May Destroy You, a story that takes an authentic look at sexual assault, seamlessly weaving in. It’s a necessary and refreshing portrayal of being human, and that the stories that we often tell ourselves about who we are, as occupying either “bad” or “good” are less real than the grey I May Destroy You represents. But rather than being painted as a horror show of traumas, infused with humor and dynamism, the characters are notably imperfect, and engage in misdeeds themselves in as much as they are harmed by others. Alongside Arabella, are Terry (Weruche Opia) and Kwame (Paapa Essiedu), her close friends, who like Arabella experience varying degrees of sexual assault, manipulation, and coercion. media and whose complexities are unexplored in Western media at large. Written and created by Coel and taken from her own personal journey as a survivor of sexual assault, I May Destroy You also illustrates the lives of young Black British people, a demographic that is underrepresented in both U.K.
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