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I May Destroy You is a British black comedy-drama television limited series created, written, co-directed, and executive produced by Michaela Coel for BBC One and HBO. The series is set in London with a predominantly Black British cast. Coel stars as Arabella, a young writer in the public eye who seeks to rebuild her life after being raped. The series premiered on 7 June 2020 on HBO and on 8 June 2020 on BBC One.
I May Destroy You was recognised as the most critically acclaimed television programme of 2020 by multiple publications and was described by The New York Times as "the perfect show for an anxious world." It has since been named one of the greatest television series of all time.
The series won the BAFTA TV Awards for Best Mini-Series, Best Actress, Best Director: Drama, Best Writer: Drama and Best Editing: Fiction, in addition to two RTS Programme Awards, two Independent Spirit Awards, a Gotham Award, a GLAAD Media Award, an NAACP Image Award and a Peabody Award. It also received nine nominations at the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series; it won two awards including Outstanding Writing for Coel.
Premise
Arabella is a young Twitter-star-turned-novelist in her late twenties who found fame with her debut book Chronicles of a Fed-Up Millennial and is publicly celebrated as a Millennial icon. While struggling to meet a deadline for her second book, she takes a break from work to meet up with friends on a night out in London. The following morning, she struggles to remember what happened to her, but recalls the events of the night with the help of her friends Terry and Kwame.
Cast and characters
= Main
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Michaela Coel as Arabella Essiedu, a writer
Weruche Opia as Terry Pratchard, Arabella's best friend and a struggling actor
Paapa Essiedu as Kwame, Arabella's best friend
= Recurring
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= Notable guests
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Katherine Jakeways as Jacki
Juno Dawson as Scarlett
Kadiff Kirwan as Officer Tom
Antonia Clarke as Emily
Vivian Oparah as Bisola
Jonathan Slinger as doctor
Episodes
Release
The series premiered on 8 June 2020 on BBC One in the United Kingdom. The first episode had already premiered in advance on 7 June 2020 on HBO and HBO Max in the United States.
Production
Coel stated in a lecture at the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe that she had been sexually assaulted while writing Chewing Gum, and that the experience provided inspiration for the series.
Originally titled January 22nd, the series is produced by Coel's production company, FALKNA Productions. It is executive produced by Coel, Phil Clarke, Roberto Troni, and Jo McClellan for BBC One. Coel is also co-director and writer for I May Destroy You. Coel turned down a $1 million (£800,000) offer from Netflix for the show because the deal would have taken full rights ownership away from the creator. Coel subsequently made a deal with the BBC which allowed Coel full creative control and ownership rights of her project and the BBC brought on HBO as a co-producer to help fund the project.
The series was predominantly filmed in the London Borough of Hackney with some scenes filmed in Italy.
School interior and exteriors for the flashback scenes were shot at Acland Burghley School in the London Borough of Camden.
Reception
= Critical response
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I May Destroy You holds an average score of 86 out of 100 based on reviews from 25 critics on review aggregator Metacritic, indicating "universal acclaim". On Rotten Tomatoes, 97% of 72 reviews are positive, with an average score of 8.55/10. The website's critical consensus is, "I May Destroy You is at once brave and delicate, untangling the trauma of sexual assault with dark humour and moments of deep discomfort all held together on the strength of Michaela Coel's undeniable talent."
Writing for The New York Times, critic Mike Hale called the series "touching and quietly hilarious." He praised Coel and the show's willingness to push boundaries. In her review for Time, critic Judy Berman noted the show's unique and complex telling of a story centred on sexual assault after the Me Too movement.
The show featured heavily on year-end lists. Metacritic listed it as the best TV show of the year based on critic top 10 lists, with more than thirty #1 placements. French newspaper Le Monde includes I May Destroy You in its Top 10 of the best 2020 TV shows.
In 2021, BBC Culture polled 206 "critics, journalists, academics and industry figures" from around the world to compile the 100 greatest television series of the 21st century; I May Destroy You came in at number 6. In 2022, the series came in nineteenth place on the Rolling Stone list of the 100 greatest TV shows of all time. In December 2023, Variety ranked I May Destroy You #94 on its list of the 100 greatest TV shows of all time. Empire ranked the series number eighty one on their list of The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, while the Time Out named it the fiftieth best television show of all time.
= Awards and nominations
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Notes
References
External links
I May Destroy You at BBC Online
I May Destroy You on HBO
I May Destroy You at IMDb
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