#I MAY DESTROY YOU KWAME WHITE GIRL TV#
This finale is one of the most complex episodes of TV I’ve ever watched.Seriously, I hated seeing that guy in Arabella’s bedroom.I loved the shots of Ben’s plants growing.I almost wish Sion had come back to help her with the book instead of Zain. Arabella finished her book! I love that Sion was her interviewer at her reading.These are also things the show can explore in a second season, so this is really just nitpicking. It was also handled so quickly, I’m not sure why it was more of a focus than Terry’s love life or Kwame’s new boyfriend. Looking at the season as a whole, some of the social media stuff really threw off the pacing. The scene of them watching Terry’s commercial would’ve played better if we’d known some of these characters a little longer. I wish Kwame and Terry’s love interests had been introduced sooner.How will Arabella’s book be received and how will this attention impact her? Are Terry and Kwame really just happy now that they’re in great relationships? Is Ben still super lonely? Do Biagio and Arabella stay away from each other forever (as they should)? That we manage to walk away from this season knowing so much about Arabella while still wanting to see more of her world points to the success of Coel’s vision. It almost seems like a gift that Coel also manages to provide a glimpse at what season two could explore. I May Destroy You is revolutionary storytelling and “Ego Death” is a befitting finale. In the end, there is no perfect answer and Michaela Coel can’t offer one. This finale succeeds at forcing us to really examine what we wanted from Arabella and her healing process. In the alternative where Arabella helps her attacker evade the police and listens to his sob story as though he deserves to be understood as a character, it’s frustrating. It also seemed too fitting that Theo and her white girl nonsense would lead to Arabella facing a murder charge. When Arabella reaches for her attacker’s penis as he’s passed on the sidewalk, you don’t want this to be real. By now, the episode’s pattern has established that none of this is real which makes the moment easier to stomach.Įvery fantasy seems almost possible before dipping into the uncanny. She whispers in his ear but we don’t know what she says. Arabella speaks to her attacker in an entirely empty bar. Terry sits back while the man she’s been sent to distract twerks for her. Arabella sees the woman from the police station in the bar bathroom. Seeing her attacker in this state of vulnerability was the hardest for me, personally, to watch so I appreciated that it’s also the most imaginative of the fantasies. Why does Terry suddenly have so much coke? When Arabella and her attacker suddenly escape the police and appear in her bedroom, the intimacy is uncomfortable but we also know this can’t be real either. There’s a fake, blurry second Arabella dancing in the background as actual Arabella does coke and pretends to get drugged. In the second fantasy, Terry takes charge and Arabella is unusually honest with herself and her mental illness. Things aren’t right and by the time Arabella is wiping blood on her walls and we snap back to her, in the garden with Ben, the episode’s concept makes sense. Theo appears and has a pink stripe in her hair, a look we haven’t seen her with since the high school flashback. Honestly, Arabella has not worn a wig that nice all season. In the first fantasy, Arabella suddenly goes from her messy, vintage bomber jacket to a perfectly fitted spy wig and plastic dress, made for handling tossed spiked drinks. Within each alternate reality, Michaela Coel and costume designer Lynsey Moore drop clues that things aren’t as they appear. Plants grow, a book is written, relationships develop-life goes on. It’s impressive how the finale manages to weave increasingly fantastical moments with such a straightforward conclusion. The finale is more interested in giving us the conclusion to Bella’s healing process than information on her attacker. That isn’t to say Arabella won’t still be impacted by her attack, she’s just no longer the shadow version of herself she almost became in the aftermath.
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