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Many remarkable things about I May Destroy You but just to say it might be the first time in ages I’ve not bumped on a depiction of London on screen. It feels like what it feels like.
A real jumble of spaces that tumble into each other. Particularly struck by the streets they chose to shoot and the looseness of the camera. Avoids over-saturation or relentless grey. It’s all just right, a potent and truthful snapshot.
And it feels absurd to say considering the subject matter so forgive me, but there‘s something almost relaxing in that depiction. A little like something you didn’t know you needed. Maybe aided by seeing a few familiar faces. God, I miss being in this city and I’m living in it.
I think what I love most about I May Destroy You is that nearly every left turn is in the direction of radical empathy BUT without letting even vulnerable people off the hook for their missteps or ever forgetting on whose side the power needs to lie.
In doing so it allows for a nuance that our polarised discourse doesn’t. I May Destroy You is the cure for the Twitterfication of our thinking and our feeling because it embraces flawed humanity over sticking it to the other side or the easy wins, pass it on.
It makes me frustrated with the hyperbole with which we treat some shows because it removes the critical headroom to express how brilliant IMDY is. Not just in handling of its issues but its form. It feels episodic in the way that life is episodic, not in the way tv episodes are.
No kids gloves or received notions in it. Only purity of vision, clarity of intention, ego left at the door. Drama that makes the world feel bigger, not just in who it represents but in dragging humaneness back to truth in a post-truth, clout-led landscape. More, forever, please.
The way IMDY doesn’t diminish or dismiss the possibility of literally anyone’s pain is an act of generosity that made me ache & - for the 1st time in ages - feel hopeful for how we might move forward. It slices right through the modern Gordian knot of siloed empathy. Remarkable.
Anyway getting back off Twitter. Irony in this show being what brings me back for a bit but literally couldn’t keep working today without expressing how much this is the work we deserve & need. Big props to all involved as I’m sure MC would want the love for it to be expressed x
