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THE BEST SERIES OF 2020!
This series was just so beautiful in every way shape and form! I LOVE Michaela Coel and have loved her since she was an actress touring her one woman play Chewing Gum Dreams, which was then turned into the E4 series (now on Netflix) Chewing Gum (2015-17). The concept, characters and directorial vision in this series excites me and I am VERY much looking forward to seeing what Coel creates next!
I May Destroy You centres around Arabella (Michaela Coel), a millennial trying to get a grip on her life, however everything seems to start to spiral out of control when she has writers block and can’t finish her novel, finding out her dad was having an affair for most of her life and after a night out Arabella was drugged and raped! On top of all of this the series highlights the everyday struggles that black women face with casual racism, which can be seen when Arabella goes to the doctors and he assumes her heritage as a black women and is incorrect or even in best-friend and aspiring actor Terri (Weruche Opia) when she goes to an audition and they ask if her hair is real and if they can see her without a wig.
Kwame (Paapa Essiedu) is also part of the trio and is a gay, fitness instructor who is always on grinder, however a hook up goes to the extreme and he is sexually assaulted. The show also highlights the different process that gay people have with reporting an assult as Kwame is speaking to a male officer who is uncomortable and has to tell him he doesn’t know the man’s name only a username of ‘Sexyhotandreadytopop’! Arabella, however reports her rape and it seems to go well with the police finding a culprit, but is let go without surficent evidence.
The series is well crafted and shows the snippet of Arabella’s life and the everyday struggles of a millennial black woman trying to negate a world through work and social media. Fabulous and poetic storytelling throughout and the cinematography was easy on the eye too. A gripping look at modern life through the lens of a black female, wonderfully told by Coel who starred, wrote the series and co-directed the last two episodes!
Stream the series now on BBC iPlayer & HBO Max.
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