I May Destroy You's period blood clot scene is the most memorable TV moment of 2020

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"It seems silly that, despite all of I May Destroy You’s profound, soul-shaking glory, this is the scene that has really stuck with me," says Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz. "But there’s just something so wonderful about seeing a soggy, bloody tampon and its accompanying gooey blood clot on TV. To have it acknowledged onscreen in a moment like this was surprising and delightful, like good art should be. And while the blood-clot scene didn’t get a lot of attention, it’s one that felt integral to the show as a whole; in I May Destroy You, sex is messy, un-sanitized, the encounters blurry and ambiguous. Sure, Biagio ended up being an a**hole, but to see him pull a blood-soaked tampon out of a woman — without being remotely fazed by it — is a quietly groundbreaking moment in a show that was full of them."