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The hip show of the moment is HBO’s I May Destroy You - a dramedy about a young writer played by series writer-creator Michaela Coel. The auteur created the show based on her personal experience of being sexually assaulted during the making of Chewing Gum, a series that took Coel to global attention via Netflix.
Considering that Coel became so well known…