I May Destroy You and how it represents the future of TV
BBCI May Destroy You and how it represents the future of TV Alamy In BBC Culture's poll of the greatest series of the 21st Century, Michaela Coel's blistering drama was the most recent top 10 entry. In the penultimate episode of the BBC/HBO drama series I May Destroy You, a character turns to Michaela Coel's Arabella and for a moment seems to break the fourth wall to ask "I thought you were writing about consent?" Strength in specificity Another exhilarating aspect of I May Destroy You is the sheer distinctiveness of Michaela Coel's voice: she is part of a wave of millennial small-screen "auteurs" who have flourished in the last decade, including Girls' Lena Dunham, Atlanta's Donald Glover, Insecure's Issa Rae and Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Since I May Destroy You premiered last year, the response to it has been rhapsodic: the show was measured by review aggregator site Metacritic to be the most critically-acclaimed television programme of 2020, ahead of Better Call Saul, Normal People and The Queen's Gambit, while Coel has graced magazine covers, becoming the first black female filmmaker to make the front of esteemed British film magazine Sight & Sound.
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