Every now and again, television unearths a unique talent who takes audiences into the experiences of communities they know very little about.
America in recent decades has given us David Chase, David Simon, Vince Gilligan, Gillian Flynn and Marti Noxon.
But Britain has also been good at discovering new voices, with Jimmy McGovern, Russell T Davies, Ricky Gervais, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Lisa McGee bringing stories about hitherto ignored communities to the fore.
2020 has seen the emergence of two exciting new voices.
In the spring, audiences on both sides of the Atlantic were gripped by Sally Rooney's intense rural Irish romance 'Normal People'.
But the summer has brought another impressive voice, London performer Michaela Coel.
Coel is an actor, writer, singer, songwriter and director of Ghanian heritage from Hackney and Tower Hamlets, who first came to people's attention with the 2015 E4 sitcom 'Chewing Gum' about a shop assistant from a strict religious upbringing who is trying to lose her virginity.
A huge critical success, it ran for two seasons and earned Coel a BAFTA for Best Female Comedy Performance in 2016.
If the initial reaction to her latest HBO and BBC3 drama 'I May Destroy You' is anything to go by, Coel should prepare for a truckload of BAFTAs coming her way next year and maybe some Emmys and Golden Globes as well.
'I May Destroy You' is a frank and inventive drama about rape, the dos and don'ts of sex, the dos and don'ts of social media and the struggle for creativity.
Drawing upon Coel's own experience of sexual assault, she plays Arabella Essiedu, a social media sensation turned novelist whose first book 'Chronicles of a Fed Up Millennial' was a publishing success.
Engaged by literary agents to produce a follow up, she struggles to come up with a story and heads to Italy for inspiration, settling in Ostia near Rome where she is joined by her close mate, Weruche Opia's aspiring actress Terry Pratchard.
While Terry visits her, they do drugs and party hard and she gets involved in a relationship with a dealer, Marouane Zotti's Biagio.
Under pressure from her publishers to meet her deadline, Arabella returns to the house she shares in London with Terry and Stephen Wight's kind, reclusive housemate Ben.
But she continues to party, going to a pub one night with another friend, Aml Ameen's banker Simon.
It is only afterwards that she realises that during this night out that her drink was spiked and she was raped by a white man in a men's public bathroom.
Supported by Terry and her gay friend, Paapa Essiedu's Kwame, she reports the crime to the police.
Revealing to Simon and his partner, Lara Rossi's Kat what happened, Arabella realises a girl who joined her on the night out, Ann Akin's Alissa was his mistress and their friendship crumbles.
Traumatised by her experience, Arabella becomes increasingly distant from those around her and engrossed in building up her social media profile.
An attempt by Arabella's publisher to assign her a writer, Karan Gill's Cambridge graduate Zain Tareen to mentor her goes disastrously.
Arabella also forges a friendship with Harriet Webb's Theodora, an old acquaintance from school who Terry and Kwame have deep reservations about.
Meanwhile Kwame is going through struggles of his own as he hooks up with other men through the LGBT dating app, Grindr and is left reeling after one particular encounter.
How do you properly classify 'I May Destroy You'?
Is it a very dark comedy about young Londoners living hedonistic lifestyles or a heavy 12 episode morality play?
Is it a mystery thriller about a woman trying to piece together memories about her rape?
Is it a raw examination of the consequences of sexual assault and the blurred lines around consent?
Is it an exposé of the shallow world of social media influencers and dodgy dating apps?
Or is it a reflection on the creative writing process?
'I May Destroy You' is all of these things and more and it is brilliantly packaged up in 12 tightly written half hour episodes by Coel.
Directed slickly by Sam Miller with Coel sometimes co-directing, it can be a very tough watch, thanks to its frank depiction of sex, drugs and sexual violence.
But it is also beautifully constructed and stunningly lit by cinematographer Andy Gillham in a way that is reminiscent of James Laxton's excellent work on 'Moonlight' - particularly in a sequence where Arabella revisits a beach on a return visit to Ostia.
Powered by a smart, streetwise soundtrack featuring tracks by Little Simz, Daft Punk, Arlo Parks, Gabrielle, The Bricks, Hardy Caprio and Janelle Monae, Coel turns in a gripping performance as a woman coming to terms with a horrifying incident.
Sometimes warm, sometimes detached, Arabella is flawed but compellingly so - earning the love and friendship of Terry and Kwame but occasionally hurting them.
Essiedu is an engaging presence too as the reserved Kwame who is no less fragile and flawed, while Opia does a great job as Arabella's fiercely loyal but occasionally reckless friend, Terry.
The reality is all the cast are on their A game from Gill as the posh writer Zain to Zotti's sensitive drug dealer, Ameen's shifty Simon and Webb's Theodora to Akin's provocative Alissa and Wight's quietly decent Ben to Rossi's easily duped Kat.
It is to Coel's credit that just when you think 'I May Destroy You' is about to fall at the final fence, the last episode engages in a narrative flight of fancy that catches you by surprise.
Just like Sally Rooney and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, there will be enormous pressure on Coel to come up with a sequel from audiences who have been mesmerised by a great television drama.
Waller-Bridge made the mistake of giving in wth 'Killing Eve' whose second and third series have failed to recapture the intoxicating magic of the first.
And while there is scope for Coel to revisit these characters again, you cannot help hoping she might resist because 'I May Destroy' is simply too perfect to tamper with.
('I May Destroy You' was released on the BBC3 channel on the iPlayer on June 8, 2020 and was broadcast in the UK on BBC1 from June 8-July 14, 2020)
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