![]() They are revisiting situations that were straightforwardly wrong, feeling understood and somehow protected by the generous, careful writing of Coel. But with I May Destroy You, Coel – who wrote the show after she was sexually assaulted – is offering up something new, something that allows us all to pick apart our sexual past, just as the characters are doing.Įveryone I know who is watching the show is sorting through their own memories. And we are used to discussions about consent that are sombre and didactic. We are used to seeing assault on screen that is distastefully salacious (The Fall, for example, or any of the many shows that depict beautiful naked dead women). The result is a piece of TV that feels idiosyncratic and real. It is harrowing but it is also hilarious.Ĭoel has brought the zaniness, the heart and the humour of her earlier hit Chewing Gum and applied that to often deeply disturbing subject matter. So it is, yes, a ‘consent drama’ – but it’s weirder and funnier and more sophisticated and more tender than that term implies. Sometimes those encounters involve serious sexual assault and criminal duplicity and sometimes they are troubling but not illegal. It also seeks to interrogate other sexual encounters that Arabella (played by the show’s creator Michaela Coel) and her friends Terry (Weruche Opia) and Kwame (Paapa Essiedu) have, examining each one from various angles to determine whether they were consensual or not. It is a 12-part series that has a disturbing sexual assault at its centre. ![]() It is absolutely true to say that I May Destroy You is a ‘consent drama’, as it has been described in its promotional material and in the press. *Spoilers for Normal People and I May Destroy You (up until episode 5) ahead
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