Fast-forward to the next morning, she wakes up with a gash on her head, and no memory of the night before, save the image of man, standing over her in a bathroom stall, sexually assaulting her. Battling writer’s block (and up against a deadline,) she pops out for an hour’s break, meeting up with a friend and his friend for a drink. What is I May Destroy You about?Īrabella (Michaela Coel), who turned a social media following into a popular book, is attempting to write her follow-up, with little success. It’s dark, it’s hilarious, it’s compulsively watchable but wildly unsettling-and, if you’re asking us, it’s the best thing on TV this summer. The Guardian’s TV critic hailed the show as “an extraordinary, breathtaking achievement without a false note in it.” The New Yorker dubbed I May Destroy You “a beguiling study of friendship and casual trauma and writing as a path-albeit not a simple one-to reinvention,” which, while a mouthful, feels as close as any to an accurate description of a series that is about so many things, woven together so intelligently, that it’s entirely beyond pedestrian things like classification. Twitter loses its mind every week as new episodes drop. Love you, Normal People, but there’s another British series setting the internet alight: I May Destroy You, written by Michaela Coel, who also stars.
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