Comment on HBO’s I May Destroy You Is an Explosive Portrait of a Life Disrupted by Sexual Assault

HBO’s I May Destroy You Is an Explosive Portrait of a Life Disrupted by Sexual Assault

Stories of sexual assault have a disconcerting tendency to flatten out the victim’s personality until they are defined solely by the worst thing that ever happened to them. Some cop shows cycle through a different wounded party, living or dead, in each episode. But even the most sensitive depictions of rape and its aftermath—like the otherwise-excellent Netflix docudrama Unbelievable—end up reducing these characters to points on a grid.

 

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