![]() ![]() Sometimes, it feels like you’re an external brain attached to your laptop.Ĭoel knows this world of art and commerce well. This happens whether you want it to or not. From Docs to Twitter to Instagram, the places a creative person goes to make their observations all put their own spin on their writing. It’s a career arc familiar to a generation of writers who live in front of screens, who do things like try to Google our way out of writer’s block. Before the show begins, Bella’s first book took her from Twitter personality to the author of a hit about her own life being young and Black and funny in London. Ergo the Google search.īella’s career to date has been facilitated by social media. So when her nightmarish agents force her to return to the laptop, to express herself under duress-her first book was an easy hit, but now her ideas are changing shape-she inevitably hits a cognitive wall, because the conditions are wrong. ![]() After this, episodes will then show on Mondays and Tuesdays for the remainder of the series (12 episodes), and will also be available on BBC iPlayer.Bella carries her MacBook everywhere, like an extra, external brain, the one that doesn’t live inside her body. ![]() The second episode will air on Tuesday 9th June at 10.45pm. I May Destroy You will begin on Monday, June 8 on BBC One at 10:45pm. It turned out I’d been sexually assaulted by strangers," she explained to an audience at the at the Edinburgh Television Festival. I emerged into consciousness typing season two, many hours later. “I took a break and had a drink with a good friend who was nearby. Coel revealed in 2018 that she had been sexually assaulted while working on a script deadline. And while fictional, Coel's own experiences with being a survivor of sexual assault could have helped to inform her writing due to their similarities. What's more, the show sounds as though it is refreshingly real, honest, and raw. "More than the story of a woman who was raped, Coel is telling the story of how a writer living an unexamined life comes to know herself." While I'm waiting on details over the locations the series was actually filmed in, it's unmistakably the city of London through and through, with promo shots for the show featuring backdrops from what appears to be Oxford Street and Soho (see below). Her life changes dramatically as Arabella attempts to come to terms with what happened to her while questioning the relationships she has formed and the people that are around her, and going on a journey of self discovery.Īs touched upon, the series is set in London, and many of the scenes from the trailer look quintessential of the capital city, from black cabs to recognisable streets. However, over the coming days, she is plagued by flashbacks that lead her to realise she has been sexually assaulted during her night out. On the night before the deadline for her second book, Arabella hits the town with friends, pushing off the final pages of her work in favour of a good old fashioned party. It follows the story of Arabella, a young Londoner who's known for writing a bestselling millennial book. The series is written, executive produced, and co-directed by Coel, who is quickly becoming one of the most revered stars in British TV. But where was I May Destroy You filmed, and what is it actually about? The upcoming series will air on TV, as well as being streamed on a catch-up service, and once you read all about it, you'll not want to miss it. Lots of brilliant new TV will entertain us in the coming weeks, and one new show I've got my eye on is I May Destroy You, starring the face (and brains) behind Chewing Gum, Michaela Coel.
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