![]() ![]() Arabela is pounding into him like with her fist while he is completely drugged up and barely conscious, and she ends up putting him under her bed, which is the place that we’ve seen in the show where she puts a lot of things she doesn’t want to face. And it ends up ending in a very bloody fashion where Theo is strangling David with Arabella’s underwear and. And the solution they come up with is to drug David and make him feel the same way that Arabella felt, which is out of control. Theo has become a friend for Arabella and proves instrumental in figuring out a solution for Arabella. And so in the bathroom, she’s talking to her friend Terry about the plan and they’re going to rope Theo into it. That’s how, you know, a black woman is ready for something. And so her and Terry Rush inside the bathroom and Arabella’s freaking out. So it begins with Arabella realizing as she’s looking into the bar called ego death, that she’s looking at her rapist and she starts to remember things. All of them have a very similar beginning. S4: The first scenario is really fascinating because I think it presents David, her rapist, as a predator and a very clear sense. Do you want to tell me what happens in the first sort of the first scenario? Or maybe that’s what get into the book she’s writing. And at first it sort of seems like they’re taking place in reality, but they are, in fact, taking place in her imagination. And the finale is a kind of triptych like there are three versions of what happens after Arabella remembers. So just to set it up a little bit in the penultimate episode of the series, Arabella remembers what happened to her the night of her rape. And it’s also sometimes very funny because there’s so much to talk about that I thought that what we could do is to talk really specifically about the finale, which needs like even more unpacking, I think, than the episodes that preceded it, and use that as a way to jump into the threads and themes and characters of the series as a whole. ![]() It’s very dense, very intense, very carefully constructed. It’s set in a vibrant social world, a black British world populated by Arabella’s friends over the course of the series also deal with issues of assault and consent. ![]() Her memory of the incident is only hazy, and the whole series is concerned with the fallout of this event, but not in any narrow sense. As Arabella Aidoo, a young writer and Twitter sensation who is working on her second book and who at the end of the very first episode is drugged and raped at a bar. It’s based on her own experience and she stars in it, too. So Maquila will produce the show she wrote every single episode she directed most of them. I’m sure we could talk for a really long time. I’m really, really excited to talk about the show because there’s actually so much to talk about. And I think we’ll get into some of what she wrote as we discuss it. I’m Willa Paskin, Slate’s TV critic, and I’m joined today by Angelica Bastiano, staff writer at Vulture, who has written about the show. Drama about rape, consent, friendship, empathy and so much more. Like there are not enough good words or things to say about it. Today, we’re going to be spoiling I may destroy you, my Callicles. S3: Hi, and welcome to Slate spoiler specials. S1: The following podcast contains explicit language, I want to tell you my secret now, I see. Slate podcast transcripts are created by Snackable using machine-learning software and have not been reviewed prior to publication. ![]()
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