‘I May Destroy You’ Review: Piecing Together a Horrid Night

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'I May Destroy You' Review: In HBO's dark series for the MeToo era, a writer slowly recalls an evening’s events after she was drugged

The first hook dangled by the startling “I May Destroy You” is its title. Who’s talking to whom? Who’s the “I”? Who’s in peril? To be honest, when I first read the title—free of content—I heard echoes of “I Was a Teenage Werewolf” or the very misleading “I Come in Peace.” Maybe it’s a tale of nightmare and horror?

It is in a way, though its fearsome landscape is sex, dating and the serpentine concept of sexual consent in a #MeToo era. Add to this a nihilistic cast of characters and close-to-hardcore sex and HBO probably has...

 

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