Still, to leave out a tour de force like
I May Destroy You is astonishing.
The dark comedy, which lead actress Michaela Coel also created, wrote, executive produced, and co-directed, was quite possibly the most critically acclaimed show of last year and on every Best of 2020 list.
Inspired by Coel s own experience of sexual assault, the HBO and BBC One co-production, which premiered last summer, follows a writer named Arabella, a rising literary star thanks to her debut bestseller on the millennial experience. Craving a break from working on the manuscript for her second book, she joins friends for a night out in London. It isn t until later the next day that, through a series of hazy, fragmented flashbacks, Arabella realizes she was drugged and raped.
HFPA Says It Will Implement an Action Plan to Recruit Black Members
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Three days before this year’s Golden Globes Awards is set to take place, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is responding to criticism that it has failed to cultivate an inclusive and diverse membership body. Most notably, as detailed in a scathing exposé last Sunday by the Los Angeles Times, the org does not have a single Black member.
“We are fully committed to ensuring our membership is reflective of the communities around the world who love film, TV and the artists inspiring and educating them,” the HFPA said in a statement on Thursday. “We understand that we need to bring in Black members, as well as members from other underrepresented backgrounds, and we will immediately work to implement an action plan to achieve these goals as soon as possible.”
Ostia is more than a backdrop in HBO’s series I May Destroy You
15 Feb, 2021
Did Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini inspire the story of the most talked about series of the moment?
In the British series from the BBC One and HBO, the audience never sees the eternal Rome with its monuments, but instead its
peripheral appendix Ostia, the extension of small buildings on the Tyrrhenian coast, the beach stands, trashy nightclubs, like those found everywhere in Italy.
Not Rome but Ostia
I May Destroy You, the new series written, directed and interpreted by the talented Michaela Coel,
begins in the streets of Ostia, a southern suburb of Rome. A curious choice of set. The sand dotted with colorful umbrellas, the bars, and the nameless park where a pick- up game of basketball is always being played are more reminiscent of teen summer scenarios of some Netflix productions.
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Golden Globes So White? The ‘I May Destroy You’ Snub Proves Some Things Never Change
The Golden Globes 2021 nominations left out some of the best work done by Black, Indigenous and People of Color. However, it was the I May Destroy You snub that hit the hardest.
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Last year when Lupita Nyong’o haunting (pun not intended) yet brilliant performance in Jordan Peele’s Us was snubbed by the Golden Globes, the hashtag #GoldenGlobesSoWhite trended for a while on Twitter. In 2019, it was the revered drama When They See Us by Ava DuVernay that failed to gain a single nomination. This year, when Michaela Coel’s revolutionary show I May Destroy You met with the same fate, people were convinced that some things really never change.