The series is inspired by Michaela Coel's own experience of being sexually assaulted. Episode 3 is provocative and one can also wonder if she is just trolling the audience. Inviting a response that Arabella deserved her treatment because of her wild partying ways.
Coel has admitted that she wants to show a lifestyle with all its pros and cons.
Arabella's actress friend Terry made reference in the previous episode to a threesome she once experienced in an audition. An audition where incidentally the white producers made her take off her weave.
This is a flashback episode set in Italy. Arabella and Terry go out to a party. Arabella is rather high on drugs and Terry leaves her to get back to the apartment.
On her way Terry meets a man and she ends up at a party where she is propositioned by another man leading to a threesome. It is indicated that the two men knew each other so it was no accident.
Now alone, Arabella is out of it in a night club. A stranger in a small town in a foreign country. She looks for Terry not realising that Terry had informed her that she was leaving.
Fortunately the drug dealer who had earlier sold Arabella the drugs keeps an eye out for her well being.
In a sense both Arabella and Terry failed to keep an eye out for each other. Something that Arabella's friend such as Simon did not do on that fateful evening.
It does make me think that the eventual resolution of this story could be messy and twisted.
