I May Destroy You

Slate's Spoiler Specials

Slate Podcasts

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, Film Reviews

3.6 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

On the Spoiler Special podcast, Slate critics discuss movies, the occasional TV show, and, once in a blue moon, another podcast, in full spoiler-filled detail. This week, Slate’s Television Critic Willa Paskin is joined by Vulture Staff Writer Angelica Jade Bastién to spoil I May Destroy You. Michaela Coel is at the heart of this series. Besides writing and producing the show, she directed many episodes and plays the main character, Arabella Essiedu. Coel covers consent, rape, friendship, and empathy, in a complex, yet compelling, way that really humanizes Arabella. Arabella is a young writer and influencer working on her second book when her drink was drugged and raped while at a bar in London. The series follows her as she works through the aftermath of her assault. Does Arabella regain her full memories of her sexual assault? Will she be able to finish her book? Will she accept the help from another acquaintance who she believes to have raped her? How does she use fantasy to imagine a better resolution for herself than reality can give her? You can read Willa’s review here. You can read Angelica’s review here. Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore. Email us at [email protected]. Podcast production by Rosemary Belson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.4	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:33.7	I want to tell you my secret now. I see dead people.
0:39.4	Silent green is people.
0:43.3	No, I am the father.
0:49.1	What's in the box?
0:55.0	You made it! You blew it up! Damn you all the hell!
1:03.0	Hi, and welcome to Slate's spoiler specials. Today, we're going to be spoiling, I May Destroy You.
1:08.2	Michaela Kills' incredible, phenomenal, like there are not enough good words
1:12.4	or things to say about it, drama about rape, consent, friendship, empathy, and so much more.
1:17.8	I'm Willa Paskin, Slate's TV critic, and I'm joined today by Angelica Bastien, a staff writer
1:22.5	at Vulture who has written about the show, and I think we'll get into some of what she wrote as we
1:26.3	discuss it. Hi, Angelica. Welcome.
1:28.7	Hi. Thank you so much for having me. I'm really, really excited to talk about the show because
1:33.8	there's actually so much to talk about. It just feels really dense. I'm sure we could talk
1:38.4	for a really long time. We will talk for the time allotted. So, Michaela Cole produced this show.
1:44.9	She wrote every single episode.
1:46.5	She directed most of them.
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