I May Destroy You (2020)

Watchseries; I was hooked on the first episode, but my interest waned as the series progressed. Stylistically fabulous no doubt, but the characters were represented solely by their unwavering obsessions with drugs and sex. (Where they got their money from for said drugs, drink, food, bills and the rent for spacious London flats was never addressed and was most irksome). I found the very graphic sex scenes unpleasant and distracting rather than enlightening, and felt like I was being goaded into being shocked rather than told a vital and necessary part of the story. By the last few episodes I felt like I HAD to watch it to finish the series after investing time, rather than wanting to watch to find out what happened - or actually caring. Way too long and trying too hard to shock, throughout an otherwise interesting premise.

I was hooked on the first episode, but my interest waned as the series progressed. Stylistically fabulous no doubt, but the characters were represented solely by their unwavering obsessions with drugs and sex. (Where they got their money from for said drugs, drink, food, bills and the rent for spacious London flats was never addressed and was most irksome). I found the very graphic sex scenes unpleasant and distracting rather than enlightening, and felt like I was being goaded into being shocked rather than told a vital and necessary part of the story. By the last few episodes I felt like I HAD to watch it to finish the series after investing time, rather than wanting to watch to find out what happened - or actually caring. Way too long and trying too hard to shock, throughout an otherwise interesting premise.

I May Destroy You watchseries. I am on the fence... Gripping but needlessly gross unless I am just getting old! Characters were annoying but grew on me... The character Terry is a sweetheart but also kind of a doormat. The main character Bella is unbelievably self centered ....It does get better with each episode though, but I did watch it feeling like a prude! Maybe its a generation thing...it does raise some very interesting questions around consent.

A lot of praise and a lot of people giving it high grades scared probably that they might be uprehended for disliking such a "piece of art". Shallow unlikable characters, premise made to cash-in on trends.

As a Black American bisexual woman, I was excited to watch this series when I read the synopsis since it seemed relatable as well as enticing. However, I was surprisingly disappointed by the characters from episode one until the finale because I did not like one character. I have never watched a series where there was not one character to like. Moreover, the entire cast are adults making bad choices in life like teenagers and then looking for people to care about them when there are consequences as a result of their actions.

Michaela Coel you should have dug deeper into the development of these characters because the viewer should at least like and care about one character. Your characters are people no one likes or wants to be around. They're also adults acting like a 15-16 year old which is so confusing. Who are these people???

And oh my, the last episode was horrendous. I feel as though Coel was trying too hard to be unique in the direction of the scenes in the last episode until the viewer forgot about the importance of this last episode. We should have cared about Arabella but we do not. There is something wrong with the screenplay, direction, and character development in this entire series.

I'm at episode 9 and I may just finish it off but there are some aspects of this show that just leave a bad taste in my mouth. The main one is that I don't really care about any of the characters. I want to care about them but a lot of their problems are due to doing it to themselves so it's hard to feel sympathy. They are also inconsistent. One minute they're feeling like this and the next, their behavior just shifts out of nowhere. I don't get the unabashed loving of this show from the critics because that is a serious flaw to me. The directing is good. The acting is fine. It's shot very nicely. But to not care about the characters trumps every other good thing about the show. The dialogue is real but I feel this show could have been told in maybe 6-8 episodes. It feels like they're just reaching for plot lines to show (which are all tied to the same kind of topic for each of the characters) just to fill the 12 episodes. I would not recommend and wish that they cut the show in half. It could have been really really good if they cut out a lot of the filler.

It's good, but it's way too overrated. This is depressing af and gave me anxiety. Too much chaos for my own good. Unlikable characters. I watched 6 episodes because I really wanted to like it, since the whole Golden Globe thing, everyone raving about it for not being nominated. Well, guess what, it's because it's not worth being nominated.