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I may destroy you reviews9/5/2023 “I got the job,” she tells Kwame and Bella through hurried, shallow breaths, elated to have beaten her stage fright (at least for the moment). Terry has been waiting to hear back from her latest acting audition and she finally finds out her fate during one of Kwame’s (Paapa Essiedu) workout classes. Credit: BBC Terry – a new job and new romance ‘I May Destroy You’ episode 11 is streaming now on BBC iPlayer. The episode ends with Bella staring intensely at them through the window – what will she do next? They got in a cab with her and took her to another bar and headed straight for the toilets, where one man guarded the door while the other attacked Bella. Spiked, she tried to leave the bar but fell and was helped up by two of the men who had joined her and her friends. ![]() ![]() A flashback scene finally reveals what happened to her that night. She recognises someone walking into the venue and her eyes follow him until he’s stood at the bar with his friend. So far, Bella’s had no luck with identifying the man who raped her but tonight that changes. Satisfied with her progress, she returns to Ego Death to continue her bar watch and meets up with Terry. After Zain leaves, she continues her work – writing down, sticking up, shuffling around, until the whole room is transformed into a map for her novel. At one point, Zain remarks: “I thought you were writing about consent.” “So did I,” replies Bella, but clearly her book has changed. After a brief session at Ego Death, she invites him back to hers to continue working and the pair begin the process of covering her bedroom walls in cue cards laying out her book. Suddenly in debt and unrepresented, she might as well hear him out. “I’m not afraid of you,” she warns him, before reluctantly allowing him to sit down and share his thoughts. ![]() He points out that he was meant to help Bella with her book before – that was why they first met, after all. Zain explains that after Bella outed him as a rapist at the summit, Susy still wanted to publish his book but was afraid of using his real name in case it attracted negative publicity. ‘I May Destroy You’ episode 11 sees Arabella lose her book deal with Henny House. “Bit silly to come and meet me,” she scoffs. When he awkwardly remains on the pavement after Bella tells him about her meeting, the truth slowly dawns on her – Zain is Della. When Zain (Karan Gill), her former fellow Henny House writer who secretly took off a condom when the pair had sex, turns up, she tries to get rid of him, eager not to have one of her abusers around while she solicits advice from Della. She replies saying she’s free now and sits and waits. Just when everything seems doomed, though, her phone buzzes and when she checks it she finds a message from Della offering to meet up. With no job and no funds to her name, the latter is particularly stressful for her and she breaks down in tears at an emergency meeting with Terry at Ego Death Bar. She doesn’t have to worry about the second for long though – a call to meet with her agents quickly follows, where she’s told she’s been dropped by Henny House, dropped by her reps and will somehow have to pay back the money she’s been given as an advance. “I don’t know exactly,” Bella responds and leaves without securing the meeting and with an angry publisher to boot. Instead, Susy corners her about her own book, asking for a progress update, a word count, any evidence that she’s done some work on it. ![]() She heads to Susy Henny’s (Franc Ashman) office and asks her if she can introduce them, clearly expecting to get the answer she wants. Not to be deterred, Bella decides to try a different path – her publishers. She sends the second one in a DM and quickly gets blocked. With Terry (Weruche Opia) and her housemate Ben’s (Stephen Wright) help, she films two videos to send to her on social media – the first passionate and normal, but deemed by Terry “too earnest” the second featuring her sat on the toilet, quirkily highlighting all the things they have in common (mainly that they’re women signed to Henny House). She’s so moved by the novel that, when she finishes it, she decides the only person who can help her finish her own draft is Della. Instead of focusing on her own book, Arabella has her nose stuck in someone else’s – The Sundial by fellow Henny House writer Della Croydickie.
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