She brings him back to her apartment and he admits to all of his crimes and they hug as the police come to take him away. In the next, when Bella springs into consciousness as he attempts to rape her, he meets her accusation with a tearful confession. There are three other versions of that night that play out. Bella brings him home and hides his bloodied body under her bed. He stumbles out of the venue and collapses on the street. The three women orchestrate a carefully executed revenge plan, in which Bella convinces the man, David (Lewis Reeves), that he has drugged her, before surprising him in a bathroom stall where Theo administers a literal dose of his own medicine, sticking a needle into his ankle. She immediately pulls out disguises for herself and her best friend Terry (Weruche Opia), and calls fellow survivor Theo (Harriet Webb) to join them. Arabella, who has been keeping watch at the bar where she was attacked, identifies the perpetrator and proceeds to take action. The show goes far beyond the inciting incident: Over 12 episodes, it explores the messiness of human nature as it relates to consent and empowerment. The finale of I May Destroy You, titled "Ego Death," is just as stunning and tricky as the rest of the series, a brilliant piece of art that follows Coel's Arabella as she grapples with the aftermath of being drugged and raped. "It seems to really come full circle, doesn't it?" she says. I tell her that I think the series is a masterpiece, and that, while I would love to spend more time with the characters, the story does feel whole. "What do you think?" she responds in a genuine, but almost cheeky manner, laughing a little. When I ask Michaela Coel whether she would make another season of her breakout HBO series I May Destroy You, she turns the question back on me. This post contains spoilers for the finale of HBO's I May Destroy You.
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