I May Destroy You Review: Michaela Coel's HBO Drama Tackles Timely Issues With Unflinching Honesty

Poet, writer and actress, Michaela Coel has many strings to her bow. And in 2016, the rising star was in the midst of one of the most exciting periods of her life.

Matt Grobar Assistant Editor, AwardslineWhen composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross first met with Damon Lindelof about his HBO superhero drama Watchmen, they had a hard time putting their finger on the tone of the show, and the kind of music that would be right for it.Based on a DC comics series created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons—which was previously adapted into a film by Zack Snyder—the gritty drama is set in an alternate reality, exploring episodes of racial violence erupting in Tulsa,

This instantly gripping French film begins with a wide shot of two police officers arresting a teenage girl on the beach. She doesn’t seem to object or freak out over what’s happening, though an older man whom we rightly presume to be her father becomes more agitated.

I May Destroy You‘s Michaela Coel, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Colin Firth are among more than 3,500 professionals in film and TV who have signed an open letter demanding an end to systemic racism in the industry.The new letter (via Deadline), which is adapted from one published in Hollywood last week by the Black Film Collective, calls for the industry’s “active engagement to tackle structural and systemic racism in our industry, in the UK and around the world”.It comes in the wake of Black Lives

the BBC show is already earning high praise for its ability to take on these topics realistically and powerfully. The first four episodes have already aired and Twitter is alight with praise, so it’s definitely one to check out.For all the latest stories on EVOKE, click here.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticWhen the night first starts to go south, Arabella (Michaela Coel) chalks it up to a mistake she’s made before. After promising herself that she’d stay sober, get productive and be good, she gives in to her restlessness and goes out for “just one drink.” Some time later — impossible to tell how much — she wakes up right back where she started, as if shaken out of a nightmare.

Adele is a huge fan of Michaela Coel’s new series “I May Destroy You”.

Singer and living legend Adele took to social media, where she praised Michaela Coel. Coel, a British genius, who is a writer and the creator behind the hit series, I May Destroy You.

Adele has hailed Michaela Coel’s new TV series as “the best thing” she has seen on British television “for years”.

I May Destroy You creator and star Michaela Coel says that writing about her sexual assault in the new Netflix show was a “cathartic” experience.The show is based on the real-life experience of Chewing Gum creator Coel being drugged and sexually abused.“It took me two and a half years all in all to write it and I didn’t do any other job,” she told Radio 1’s Newsbeat in a new interview.“It’s been quite hard but cathartic because I’m reflecting on a dark time rather than feeling it is happening to

I May Destroy You—the trailer —and, if I’m being honest, by the time the credits were rolling, I still have no idea what I’m in for as the series continues. But that’s the magic of I May Destroy You.

American Chopper is on the channel that's hard to not call the Discovery Channel but is technically just called Discovery, and the kids' movie Artemis Fowl is skipping theaters and heading straight to Disney+. But there's stuff on Netflix too, of course, most notably the new Spike Lee movie Da 5 Bloods and Season 2 of dating reality series Dating Around.

I May Destroy You might just be the TV show of the summer. The new, gripping drama stars Michaela Cole (Chewing Gum) as a young woman who was drugged and sexually assaulted after a night out and must piece together what happened in the following days.

She may not have foreseen a global pandemic or international protests tied to police brutality, but Michaela Coel's new HBO series I May Destroy You has a feeling of bracing, uncomfortable immediacy. Coel's second series as creator-star is marked by its filter-free treatment of sexuality, mockery of social media performativity and cross-section examination of a generation trying to find a voice.