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I haven’t had the chance yet to focus on I May Destroy You’s use of music, but this show really knows how to use it. Afterward, the two hug and share mutual appreciation of each other, but there’s more to the story of that hug than just healing from present pain. Theo tells her to focus on finding support in places like this group.

“Because twice, you know … I’m here to learn how to avoid being raped.” She worries about it happening again, especially since her two incidences happened back-to-back. Instead of stifling her emotions, she comes right out and shares her unspoken fears. As the women begin to open up about their workplace-harassment stories, Arabella joins in, offering her story with much more clarity than when she first started therapy a few episodes ago. Theo (Harriet Webb), Arabella and Terry’s old classmate, leads the session, explaining the ground rules (no perpetrators are to be named, only referred to pseudonymously) and setting the tone for group therapy. Nevertheless, Arabella attends the meeting, joining a group of young women seated in a wide circle facing each other. The news arouses Terry’s suspicions - and her jealousy. Being uncomfortable about losing control of her best friend’s care is one thing, but then Arabella reveals she’s reconnected with a problematic former schoolmate who’s leading the group-therapy session. When Arabella puts away her phone to tell Terry her group-therapy plan, Terry scoffs, but she also looks a touch hurt that because the group is for survivors only, she can’t stay by Arabella’s side. In this next chapter of I May Destroy You, she takes a step inward, retreating from her concerned best friend, Terry, and a noticeably more aloof Kwame to join a group-therapy session for sexual-assault survivors.īefore Arabella leaves a spray-painting session with her friends, Terry frets that her self-care regimen may not be working - it’s not engaging Arabella, who’s completely absorbed by her phone - or worse, that Arabella might feel overloaded and is shutting down despite Terry’s best efforts. The process of healing takes Arabella into unexpected territory in “The Alliance.” Last episode, Arabella outed Zain at a public event that quickly went viral.
