#I MAY DESTROY YOU SOUNDTRACK EPISODE 1 SKIN#

It turns out on this particular trip on the proviso, it’s for work and not pleasure, she’s met someone - Biago ( Marouane Zotti) and she just isn’t sure what he is in her world.

This is not normal, but if your name is Arabella ( Michaela Cole) and you’re the number one trending Gen-Z vox on a writing vacation, literary agents may give you a little bit of room to Rome. A queen kisses her serf goodbye and wishes to see him again. Did I mention she’s a proper self-saboteur? Welcome to the pilot of I May Destroy You( HBO) titled “Eyes Eyes Eyes Eyes.” She’s a bad-assed drinking, smoking, drug-taking writer, who lives in the moment, not for it, who can search her purse for fucks to give and always happens to be out of them. This is the story of not just the wound, but rather, more importantly, the wounded. It isn’t simply about the crime perpetrated, but who it was perpetrated to. I want to empathize with something so insolvent to one’s soul, they can still have the bravery and gumption to proceed on. As a cis-gendered male, I can’t in any way comprehend the aftermath of such a despicable act… but, I want to understand what goes through one’s head after the fact. It’s a four-lettered word that doesn’t look away from you, so don’t look away from it. With six more episodes to go, it’s likely there’s a hell of a lot more explosives to come.A look into a brave, new series, I May Destroy You takes us on a journey to examine and educate, and it all starts with the pilot. And this is only the halfway point – Arabella still has answers to find, truths to discover about her own relationships, self-worth and confidence and shame and desire and satisfaction to untangle and grow with. I May Destroy You asks questions out loud that until now have lingered in the subconscious.

#I MAY DESTROY YOU SOUNDTRACK EPISODE 1 SKIN#

How did the colour of Theo’s skin give her an upper hand? Do such hierarchies hold as much water when women, years together, come together because no one deserves to be alone? The racial politics are fraught – making this an uncomfortable but deeply stimulating watch. “White girl tears have high currency,” Terry and Arabella say when it seems some plotholes emerge in Theo’s story. She is scorned, but then makes her own violence too. Such a distinction matters, as her own story reveals the shady politics of teenage boys, and girls, who push their privilege too far and cause irreparable damage. Theo, when introducing the support group, speaks of sexual abuse, assault, grooming and exploitation.

Here, a flashback fills the episode and shades Arabella and Terry’s characters as well as that of Theo, their former classmate. She goes to a support group chaired by a girl she went to school with. How much is too much?Įpisode six sees Arabella keep pushing forward, seeking out her own kind of relief, the sort that Terry’s words of encouragement can’t quite stretch far enough for. Arabella’s best friend Kwame is wrestling with his own secrets, and while Terry, Arabella’s other best friend, is doing everything to keep spirits up, his discomfort feels raw and unstable – a true masterclass to the complicated dynamics that come with suffering and friendship. Coel isn’t taking any prisoners – and why should she?īut the brilliance of I May Destroy You lies in its subtleties, too. “Not rape adjacent, or a bit rapey, he’s a rapist,” Arabella makes sure to clarify. It feels like the kind of climax you’d imagine the protagonist to then wake up from, something most everyday dramas would only direct as a daydream. The initial intrigue, of Coel’s character Arabella trying to piece together the missing memories of her date rape in a club, never fades from view, but other story strands are interwoven, making such an incident feel even heavier.Įpisode five sees a new blistering truth come to light, once Zain, a work acquaintance Arabella had slept with, proves to be his own kind of dangerous criminal – rape doesn’t have to be cinematic to be true, there are “nice guys” who still commit harmful acts.Īrabella, so fearless and forthright at all times, takes to a public platform to call out Zain for what he has done. Every episode of Michaela Coel’s outstanding I May Destroy You deals in corrosive levels of comedy, but also offers a new breathtaking twist with each new development.

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