'I May Destroy You' Is HBO's New Unforgettable, Unmissable Drama
A new drama series showcases writer and actor Michaela Coel in the story of a woman whose life is upended by sexual assault.
Note: This review discusses, and the show contains, scenes depicting, and stories about, sexual assault.
In the first episode of the HBO series I May Destroy You, Arabella has other things going on before she's sexually assaulted. 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. When she next comes to, she realizes she was drugged and assaulted.
But before that, she has friends, she has family, she's struggling with her path from social media breakout star to author,, she's not a character constructed to be traumatized; she's a character, full stop.
