I May Destroy You
That Was Fun
TV Flash files “That Was Fun” as a desk essential hour — I May Destroy You (2020) on HBO, season 1, episode 4, aired 2020-06-15, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E04: listed hour 4 of 12 in the I May Destroy You guide, hour 4 of 12 in season 1. It aired 2020-06-15 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Don't Forget the Sea” (S01E03). Next is “...It Just Came Up” (S01E05).
Essential hour: “That Was Fun”. That Was Fun as the title with a wince: the hour where comedy and violation share a sentence, Coel still in charge of the temperature.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Arabella returns to London two months after the incident and starts seeing a therapist, who encourages her to find creative and relaxing ways of coping with her trauma. Her agents anxiously await the first draft, and assign another client to help her with the writing process. Kwame introduces his new boyfriend to a stranger he met online.
Viewer FAQ
Where does That Was Fun sit in the I May Destroy You guide?
S01E04 is listed hour 4 of 12 — hour 4 of 12 in season 1, season 1 episode 4.
When did I May Destroy You S01E04 air?
That Was Fun aired 2020-06-15 and is listed at 30 minutes.
How many episodes?
Twelve. Coel wrote the series and took multiple creative roles; the formal freedom — funny, furious, fragmented — is the twelve-hour argument.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Watch Michaela Coel's total authorship: twelve episodes that pivot from club lighting to aftermath silence as writer Arabella pieces together the night she was assaulted. Funny, furious, fragmented, and emotionally exact. Essential 2020 television craft that refuses exploitation cosplay.
2020, BBC One and HBO, twelve episodes. Michaela Coel writes, stars, and sets the ethical terms as writer Arabella pieces together the night she was drugged and assaulted while navigating friendship, fame, and the stories we sell. Formally free — funny, furious, fragmented — and emotionally exact. Weruche Opia and Paapa Essiedu keep the friend circle complicated. Tone pivots from club lighting to aftermath silence. **Twelve hours of total authorship, not a PSA drop.** No exploitation cosplay. Essential 2020 craft…
Filed against
- Michaela Coel as Arabella
Michaela Coel’s Arabella authored I May Destroy You from club lighting to aftermath silence — twelve 2020s episodes of a writer piecing together the night she was assaulted. Funny, furious, fragmented, emotionally exact. TV Flash files…
- Weruche Opia as Terry
Weruche Opia’s Terry stood inside I May Destroy You as friendship under club lighting and aftermath silence — Michaela Coel’s total authorship, twelve episodes that pivot as writer Arabella pieces together the night she was assaulted.…
- Paapa Essiedu as Kwame
Paapa Essiedu plays Kwame on I May Destroy You, Michaela Coel’s 2020s twelve-episode authorship — club lighting to aftermath silence as writer Arabella pieces together the night she was assaulted. Funny, furious, fragmented, emotionally…