7/27/2023 0 Comments I may destroy you ending![]() ![]() ![]() “I May Destroy You” debuted in June 2020, amid one the most turbulent years in history. “We’re all rooting for the little guy, aren’t we? It’s emotional.”Īs Coel well knows, catharsis sometimes comes in strange forms or during uncertain times. It’s that moment when begins to sing in Icelandic, I cried. “I actually was crying my eyes out watching. During quarantine, she dove into heady podcasts and books but also made time for Netflix’s zany musical comedy “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga.” The art Coel consumes is marked by a similar combination. The show’s delicate balance of tone matches its creator’s personality, as it investigates sexual assault and consent, society’s relationship to social media and the complexities of overcoming trauma while still finding ways to make audiences laugh. Looking for more TV recommendations and discussion? Head over to our Facebook Group to see new picks every day, and chat with other readers about what they're watching right now.This rings true, even over Zoom, where Coel is as profoundly introspective and pointedly funny as she is on the HBO series that she created, wrote, co-directed and stars in. Readers in the US are encouraged to contact RAINN, or the National Sexual Assault Hotline on 80.ĭigital Spy now has a newsletter – sign up to get it sent straight to your inbox. Rape Crisis Scotland’s helpline number is 08088 01 03 02. If you’ve been affected by the issues raised in this story, you can access more information on their website or by calling the National Rape Crisis Helpline on 08. Rape Crisis England and Wales works towards the elimination of all forms of sexual violence and sexual misconduct. I May Destroy You aired on BBC One and is available to watch on BBC iPlayer. It also goes one step further, touching on those on the outskirts of the trauma family, friends and potential love interests who, like ripples in murky water, are touched by the aftermath also without choice. It is sitting within all of this discomfort that viewers are invited to face up to rape culture and the structures that perpetuate it. Outside of its central storyline, I May Destroy You offered various scenarios depicting unbalanced power dynamics and deception, from the intersectional experience of being Black and queer, to the dangers of weaponised white tears. This can be the case in some instances of course, and clearly there's a definable and intelligible line to be drawn between someone that has been on the receiving end of sexual assault or abuse, and the one who has perpetrated it.īut rather than perpetuating the notion that rape is only the action of bad strangers in dark alleys, it forces the viewer to widen their understanding of the different guises it might take. TV shows have so often perpetuated notions of good versus evil, right versus wrong. "There aren't any good or bad characters in this series," Coel told BBC Sounds' Obsessed With. It showed humans, and the situations they might find themselves in, for what they are nuanced and complicated. ![]() The HBO-BBC co-production lived very much in the grey area. Traumatic experiences vary person to person, after all, and on top of that we all have different coping mechanisms. Where its power truly lies is that it could have been interpreted in all manner of different ways, depending on your perspective. Like processing trauma, the final episode of I May Destroy You left behind it a feeling of catharsis. ![]() The bed, and what was underneath, might have finally been cleared, but like a watermark or physical scar, what had happened to Arabella would stay with her, become a part of her, forever. Referencing the work she had done in facing everything she'd tucked away under her bed (no doubt a metaphor for the way in which she was compartmentalising and processing her experiences), she added: "I've gone underneath, underneath into the darkness and that darkness is now in me, looking at you, so I might seem a little bit more frightening than the last time you saw me." ![]()
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