The 10 best television shows

1 I MAY DESTROY YOU

HBO

young woman goes out drinking, wakes up with a brutal hangover and, some time later, realizes she was raped. Three years after the #MeToo revolution, you may think you’ve heard this one before, but you haven’t. For Michaela Coel—the 33-year-old British writer, director and actor who created and starred in this semiautobiographical masterpiece—the assault opens up a path to the core of her character’s psyche, forcing her to address decades of formative trauma. Consent gets a complete deconstruction. Coel gives fresh consideration to race, gender, sexuality, family, social media and—on a meta level—the difficulty of making art that feels true. That the show ultimately comes down on the side of compassion, for ourselves most of all,