The secret weapon behind 'I May Destroy You's' greatness? The coolest music on TV
by Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times
Aug 19, 2020
4 minutes
The first time Ciara Elwis read the script for "I May Destroy You" - the rapturously received HBO series about a young London woman attempting to piece together the murky details of a sexual assault - she immediately took note of what she called a "red flag."
Elwis had just signed on as the show's music supervisor, collaborating with its creator and star, Michaela Coel, to select and procure the rights to use the various songs that would make up its soundtrack. The red flag was a pivotal scene in which Coel's character, Arabella, stumbles out of a bar after having been drugged - or, rather, it was the fact that Coel wanted to set the scene to "It's Gonna Rain," a
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