There is a lot that can be unpacked on I Can Destroy for the years to come. The hallmark of the dramedy, which is already being recognized as one of the year’s best new shows, as follows zeitgeisty millennial writer Arabella as she pieces together the details of your sexual assault, that takes place in the premiere episode. As much as the central show of the traumatic event, the title also presents an enigma. Michaela Coel — who created, wrote, and stars in I Can Destroy — he offered his explanation of the title in a recent interview with British GQ.
“I could be totally unthought-of and destroy any and everything around me.”
“When the title of the card, he says:” I can destroy,’ and then ‘it’ clears,” Coel said in a video breaking down the scenes from the eighth episode, “the Line of the Spectrum of the Border.” Coel went on to explain how it is that there are several potential destroyers referred to in the title: the destruction caused by the man who sexually assaulted Arabella and Arabella’s own self-destruction. She said, “I can destroy you. I can destroy myself. I can be completely insensitive and destroy any and everything that surrounds me. That is saying, ‘I could destroy’? Is Arabella? It is he, the man who sexually assaulted her in episode one? That you can destroy?”
Then again, Coel expected that the title is based on the different interpretations of the viewers. “As with everything else, I am leaving for us to be curious and to think,” she said. “I don’t have a certain answer, that is where I like to be as a creative.” See Coel speak about the title at the beginning of the video above.
