In this episode, that means organising Halloween activities and helping them to practise self-care, but it seems like she might need to take her own advice when Bella can’t take a break from either her phone or vape at a ‘paint and wine night’. While her friends come to terms with their individual experiences of assault, Terry is doing all she can to be a good friend to them. Michaela Coel as Arabella and Weruche Opia as Terry in ‘I May Destroy You’. “She literally pushed me into it,” he argues before tensions boil over and Bella storms out. On hearing this, Bella takes Nilüfer’s side, laying into Kwame for “having penetrative sex with someone under false pretences”. While painting and drinking later that night, Kwame tells the girls about his date with Nilüfer, who he didn’t tell he was gay until after he’d had sex with her. He’s tired of her feeding off the social media echo chamber and buying into the hype around her, but he also seems a little resentful that his own experience of assault wasn’t taken anywhere near as seriously as his friend’s was. When they get stopped on the street by someone wanting to tell Bella how brave she is and spill their own tale of abuse, Kwame’s face is practically glowering. ![]() Getting caught up in Bella’s newfound internet stardom seems to be making Kwame tense. Paapa Essiedu as Kwame in ‘I May Destroy You’. “What are we doing?” Terry asks as Arabella sits outside, puffing on her vape and baring her golden fangs. It seems like this is the first step in her coming to terms with what’s happened to her – the next step is to take the investigation bags from her now-closed rape case out from under her bed and to open them, facing up to their contents and reminders of the night of her assault.Īfter making up with long-term friends Terry and Kwame, she and Terry head out for a late-night stroll and end up returning to the scene of the crime – Ego Death Bar. “I have to speak.”īack in her own house, though, the message seems to get through and one-by-one she deactivates her accounts on every platform. “It’s important that we speak,” she argues after showing the stacks of DMs confessing the senders’ own painful stories in her inbox. There, the therapist tries to convince her that a break from social media might be helpful, but Bella is resistant to the idea. The next time we see Arabella, she’s entering her therapist’s home, dressed in a remarkable Maleficent-esque outfit. Michaela Coel as Arabella in ‘I May Destroy You’. As the comments ping up on screen with frenetic intensity, Bella begins to look disorientated and lost. After a big argument, she puts down her paintbrush and wanders out into the London streets, going live to talk to her rapidly growing fanbase (and a few haters) about the world’s unconscious misogyny. At a POC paint and wine night, Bella breaks Terry’s no phones rule to record a video for her followers, winding up her friends as she does so. Having put her doctor in his place for “racial ignorance”, Bella and Terry meet up with Kwame for a self-care day with a Halloween twist – costumes with horns, wings and halos. ![]() You can tell it’s going west for her early on in ‘Social Media Is A Great Way To Connect’ when she interrupts her doctor’s appointment to film a video for her story, but it’s not until later that things come to a head. Since outing Zain as her rapist, Arabella has become a social media star whose followers feed on her posts about self-care and global injustice.
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