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Arabella's is a story that widens out to show how being assaulted affects her sex life, her relationships with her friends and her family, her career, her aspirations, and her health. But it avoids the flatness that would come from drama as a didactic explainer. I May Destroy You is about sexual violence and consent those themes come up over and over in different stories that change characters in different ways.
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Played by creator Michaela Coel, also the writer and star of Chewing Gum, she's not a character constructed to be traumatized she's a character, full stop.
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When she next comes to, she realizes she was drugged and assaulted.īut before that, she has friends, she has family, she's struggling with her path from social media breakout star to author, and she's navigating a long-distance relationship with a man she met in Italy, where she meant to be writing but then didn't, quite. She's trying to meet a book deadline, and she's worried she can't, and in the great tradition of writers doing everything else when they can't write, she steps out for a drink. In the first episode of the HBO series I May Destroy You, Arabella has other things going on before she's sexually assaulted. Note: This review discusses, and the show contains, scenes depicting, and stories about, sexual assault. Michaela Coel plays Arabella in the HBO drama she created, I May Destroy You.