Misfits: A Personal Manifesto

by Michaela Coel

We seem unsure, unknowing of their world and therefore their stories. So maybe we’re a little tentative; uploading three or four short scenes; or one full episode, but online. The new creator uses social media platforms to tell their followers, the outsiders who don’t watch telly, that finally they’ve been able to make something for TV – online.

I erased the concept of weekends, and saw sleeping as something you didn’t do deeply, or every night, just some nights, like anal.

I wondered why, if 95 per cent of us didn’t fit something, we would encourage each other to aspire to it, to emulate it?

I do not discount the fact that there is merit in avoiding the kind of self-scrutiny I encourage here. And that perhaps this invitation for transparency with the self should come with either a caveat or warning label that it doesn’t necessarily lead to more happiness.