I May Destroy You, MichaelaCoel’s uncategorizable HBO series, is a multilayered examination of trauma and its aftermath
and found they not only helped her process, but also gave her a deeper understanding of human nature. She watched season three ofand was floored that its second episode and her own show’s second episode both featured songs by rapperwho’s a friend. “She was like, ‘Obviously there’s a kinship—why do you keep being shocked?’” Coel recalled. “And I’m like, Oh, my God”—here, she started shouting—“there’s aAfter all that searching and connecting and creating, Coel has been able to take a step back.
Coel found shared ground between the song’s lyrics—“Can’t you see the clouds gathering? / Don’t let it be, said too late / There’s a brand-new feeling in the air / Better run, in the ark, before the rain starts”—and Arabella’s journey. “Arabella needs shelter,” Coel explained. “She needs somewhere to go.”
“In the beginning,” she continued, the gospel number is “like a warning.” It urges the listener—the believer—to seek shelter from impending destruction, just as Arabella searches for some semblance of justice or closure after all the pain she’s endured. The song also holds a deeper connection for Coel, who used to perform it in choir as a schoolgirl. It’s another link in her timeline of infinite loops, infinite kinship: Coel of the past, guiding her future self to the ark.
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