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Or, at least, a voice of a generation” - but minus its privilege, set instead in a London where its socially mobile but materially lacking protagonists dance to 00s garage in a gentrified bar, visiting a council flat one day and a shiny publishers’ office the next. “Delving into the feast-or-famine world of London’s creative industries,” writes The Guardian‘s Hannah J Davies, “it shares a central premise with Girls – where Lena Dunham’s protagonist memorably declared that she “may be the voice of my generation. After she wakes from a night out with a hazy memory of what took place, she and her two friends try to piece things together.Īccording to critics, it’s a masterclass in blending humour and trauma, and is a powerful, unnerving and nuanced look at consent, class, race and sexuality - one which transcends the sometimes exploitative way a show will mine Important Topics to be Important Television. In it, Coel plays Arabella, an it-girl novelist/tweeter who is struggling to piece together her sophomore effort after being lauded as ‘a voice of a generation’.

I May Destroy You is her most autobiographical work yet, a 12-part series based off her own experience being sexually assaulted while working on Chewing Gum.

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I May Destroy You is written, created, co-directed, executive, produced and starred in by Londoner Michaela Coel, who you might recognise from Netflix series Black Mirror, Black Earth Rising and Chewing Gum, the last of which she also wrote and starred in. 'Normal People' Doesn't Try To Be A Cultural Event.

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