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The Truth Of I May Destroy You Is The Difficult Mess Of Healing


BBC
HBO Max
Bob’
Coel
the National Sexual Violence Resource Center
the National Intimate Partners
Vulture
I Make You Destroy
Viacom International Inc.
MTV


Michaela Coel's
Steven UnderwoodIn
Arabella
Bob
Terry
Weruche Opia
Kwame
Paapa Essiedu
Episode 2
Theodora
Harriet Webb
Gaby
Ryan


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Positivity     44.00%   
   Negativity   56.00%
The New York Times
SOURCE: http://www.mtv.com/news/3168958/i-may-destroy-you-michaela-coel-healing/
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Summary

Warning: This story contains descriptions of traumatic events, including sexual assault, which some readers might find upsetting.By Steven UnderwoodIn the eighth episode of I May Destroy You, the harrowing BBC drama brought stateside by HBO Max, the series’s star character, Arabella, played by showrunner Michaela Coel, finds herself looking to the camera, her head wrapped in a colorful scarf, and speaking to a support group for survivors of sexual assault. The show isn’t about justice — the viewer is never made to be concerned with the crime as much as with Arabella’s shifting truths — but repeated confrontations with trauma and the ways the world enables the creation of new survivors every day.According to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC), one in five women and one in six men are victims of sexual assault. Many abusers may mask their actions as well-meaning and understandable.What else are we meant to take away as we watch Arabella’s best friend, Terry (Weruche Opia) in Episode 3, experience concerning sexual dishonesty with two men she meets while vacationing in Italy, the “most freeing thing [she] has ever done?” They invite her into a threesome under the presumption of spontaneous excitement. No one in this situation is innocent: Theodora is guilty of using her privilege as a white woman to endanger a Black man; Ryan did assault Theodora; Arabella and Terry slut-shamed Theodora, upholding a strong Black line because “the [nude] shots don’t lie.” By the end of the episode, the question of survivor and abuser is more complex than ever before.Perhaps what helps I May Destroy You transcend the nature of other series like 13 Reasons Why which are criticized as “trauma porn,” or media that exploits the traumatic adversity of lives for entertainment, is that it does not sacrifice a character’s troubling facets.

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