From her romantic relationships to encounters with fans of her popular first work “Chronicles of a Fed-Up Millennial,” you find yourself wanting to know more. Outside of the engrossing nature of the mystery of the series, Arabella’s addictive dynamics with everyone around her draw the viewer in. The continuity of the episode begins to fragment, audio and visuals are asynchronous and scene cuts are disjointed and abrupt as Arabella stumbles out of the bar and leaves the audience scratching their heads. This is where the mystery of the series begins.Īfter a few drinks, what was meant to be a harmless hour of fun with her friends quickly goes awry. ![]() Arabella sets a timer for an hour in an effort to limit her procrastination and sets out to the bar to meet her other friend, Simon (Aml Ameen) who she’d initially turned down to work on her writing. Arabella’s Google search of “How to write quickly?” is something any college student scrambling to meet a deadline can relate to.Īrabella admits temporary defeat after her friend Kwame (Paapa Essiedu), who was keeping her company, ditches her for a last minute date. In an office in her hometown of London, she struggles to crank out the draft she failed to complete in Italy. ![]() When we first meet Arabella, she’s returning from an unproductive stint in Italy that her editors funded, hoping she’d finish a draft of her follow-up to her debut successful novel. The first episode introduces viewers to Arabella and her eclectic group of friends. Her life is seemingly perfect with great friends and burgeoning success until she is drugged and must piece together memories from the night it happened. Joining the ranks of HBO’s steadily growing slate of socially current television series is Michaela Coel’s “I May Destroy You.” The series premiered Sunday with the first of 12 episodes titled “Eyes Eyes Eyes.” The show centers around Coelas Arabella, a confident twenty-something Londoner with a promising writing career. Michaela Coel delivers a poignant portrayal of the experience of a young female writer living in London.
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