I May Destroy You
The Cause the Cure
TV Flash files “The Cause the Cure” as a desk essential hour — I May Destroy You (2020) on HBO, season 1, episode 10, aired 2020-07-06, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E10: listed hour 10 of 12 in the I May Destroy You guide, hour 10 of 12 in season 1. It aired 2020-07-06 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Social Media Is a Great Way to Connect” (S01E09). Next is “Would You Like to Know the Sex?” (S01E11).
Essential hour: “The Cause the Cure”. The Cause the Cure as late-run argument: aftermath as politics and friendship, twelve-episode form still refusing a single clean moral.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
After Simon inadvertently drops a bomb on Arabella, she heads to her mom's birthday dinner, where painful, long-forgotten memories bubble to the surface. Kwame's no-strings-attached hookup bender leads him to Tyrone, a stranger in search of a different kind of connection.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Cause the Cure sit in the I May Destroy You guide?
S01E10 is listed hour 10 of 12 — hour 10 of 12 in season 1, season 1 episode 10.
When did I May Destroy You S01E10 air?
The Cause the Cure aired 2020-07-06 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…