David takes Arabella to the bathroom, thinking he has drugged her, and just as he begins to unzip his pants, Theo injects him with his own drugs. Arabella approaches David while Terry distracts him and Theo steals the drugs he uses to spike drinks. She immediately has a plan, calling upon best friend, Terry, and Theo, the head of her sexual-assault support group, for help. In the first iteration of the dreamlike finale sequence, Arabella is at the bar where she was assaulted, and immediately recognizes her rapist, David. The First Reimagining: The Ultimate Vengeance
The finale portrays the deepest use of Coel's vignettes in their most defined form, taking Arabella's rape at the bar and reimagining three different iterations of her finding justice, examining the act of sexual assault over and over again in search of elusive answers. By the finale, we're poised to experience a culmination of Arabella's trauma, and through Coel's constant use of vignettes throughout the show, it is totally logical that dreamlike vignettes are the way Arabella processes what happened to her. The show is off-kilter in a deeply thoughtful manner, painting a portrait of loneliness and even cruelty within sexual and romantic relationships, juxtaposed by the beauty and complexity of friendship. The repetitive, dreamlike finale goes through several iterations of how Arabella could find closure, turning each cliché common in scripted portrayals on its head to examine gray-area perspectives. Utilizing surrealism that may have seemed jarring to some viewers, the episode examines Arabella's link to her assailant through different scenarios: vengeance, empathetic melodrama, and even role-switching romanticism.
#I may destroy you finale series#
HBO has aired the last episode of Michaela Coel's groundbreaking series I May Destroy You.
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