![]() ![]() She embodies the various stages of her characters’ emotional arc from dumbfounded to determined to devastated. Coel moves Arabella through her trauma with painful precision, never skipping a step or realization. No storyline feels like a filler, every character and shot is arranged perfectly to reach the episode’s emotional crescendo. It is likely one of the strongest 30 minutes of television you’ll see this year. Wanting to hide from the truth and the people in the room, she tucks her head in her shirt and finally lets out a loud cry.Ĭoel’s performance and writing alongside Sam Miller’s direction in “Someone is Lying” are impeccable. Yet, even though she knows she needs to report it, show her scrapes and bruises for the record, and submit to various medical tests, she’s hesitant to use the big words of “assault” and refers to the flashbacks as part of her “memory.” But as the counselor’s questions progress, as Terry’s had done at the beginning of the episode, Arabella’s doubt begins to melt before crashing into a wave of tears. With the help of another close friend, Kwame (Paapa Essiedu), Arabella decides it’s time to go to the police station. Arabella has a lot more on her mind than her friend’s - perhaps now her former friend’s - infidelity. Arabella makes a hasty retreat away as Alissa screams that she has been seeing Simon for months, and that it’s Simon who wants to keep her away from Kat. The lines she shouts, like Simon not having a “criminal bone in his body,” sound a lot like the things people say when defending someone close to them to dismiss accusations of sexual misconduct. But the conversation quickly sours, as Arabella insinuates that maybe Simon had something to do with it, and Alissa lashes out with an angry defense. Arabella wasn’t the only woman that night to have her drink spiked, as Alissa recounts a similar story. Her search then takes her to the doorstep of Simon’s lover, Alissa, where an awkward discussion soon brings things to an uncomfortable focus. ![]() In trying to piece together the fragments of the night, Arabella visits Simon and his girlfriend Kat to ask him for his Uber receipts. Later in the episode, Simon is smoking with a stressed look in his eyes, but it’s unclear if it’s related to Arabella or something else that happened. Even after Arabella shares her concerns and tells him about the injuries and broken phone she woke up with, he waves them off when she admits they’re not so bad. He seems to be dodging her, taking advantage of the fact that she doesn’t remember the night’s events. ![]() Although she’s on her way to her own audition, Terry jumps into the role of Watson to Arabella’s Sherlock, calling Simon, the friend who was with Arabella last night, when he ignores her calls. She stops in her tracks, her face in a stunned look. When Terry asks more questions about last night –– like how did her phone’s screen crack? –– Arabella’s head spins as her memory draws a blank. In the second episode of I May Destroy You, “Someone is Lying,” Arabella begins to move through the shock of that night’s events, playing a sleuth to solve her own hellish whodunit and enter the heartbreaking stages of reckoning with what really happened. ![]() Still unsure if that’s even a real memory or a made-up one, she’s spent her downtime exploring the science of fake memories on YouTube. Arabella’s mind is wandering between their lunch conversation and the hazy image of a man panting on top of her. She pushes around some vegetables and twirls the pasta around her fork to pretend like she’s eating, but her best friend Terry knows that the meal isn’t leaving the plate. Still shaken by her mysterious blackout the previous night, Arabella doesn’t eat the food on her plate. ![]()
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