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Fleabag
Season 1 Premiere: Jul 21, 2016
8.3
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 40 Critic Reviews
92
100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 40 Critic Reviews
92
100% Positive
40 Reviews
40 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
It is, in short, an immaculately scripted (by Waller-Bridge) and performed (by everyone) half-hour – certainly up there with the best of the first series, and probably up with the best of TV comedy-drama entire.
The new season feels immediately confident, if inevitably less groundbreaking. Yet it continues to push its form. ... It remains an original.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 895 User Ratings
8.3
86% Positive
772 Ratings
772 Ratings
5% Mixed
42 Ratings
42 Ratings
9% Negative
81 Ratings
81 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 895 User Ratings
8.3
86% Positive
772 Ratings
772 Ratings
5% Mixed
42 Ratings
42 Ratings
9% Negative
81 Ratings
81 Ratings
Plot & StructureThe series follows the life of Fleabag (a name she humorously embraces), a witty, self-sabotaging, and emotionally complex young woman navigating love, loss, and identity in contemporary London. Across its two seasons, Fleabag wrestles with fractured relationships, guilt over a traumatic past, and the struggle to find meaning in the chaos of modern **** genius lies in its fourth-wall-breaking narrative. By addressing the audience directly, Fleabag establishes an intimate connection, making viewers her confidants. This narrative device not only enhances the humor but also underscores her vulnerability, revealing layers of emotion and thought often concealed in her interactions with others.
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Waller-Bridge has a bracing willingness to let entire scenes play out just to build to one absurd joke at the end, and she proves adept at giving characters and moments the touch of specificity that makes them feel real and human.
Once set in play, each of these [belated-coming-of-age tropes] devices gets turned inside out--quickly (each episode is 30 minutes) and surreptitiously (the action, like Fleabag’s life, jumps from scene to scene), but with a clear eye for truth that often becomes, like all good comedy, quite devastating.
Each of Fleabag’s six episodes is a tightly-composed variation on her character’s wild, bad-girl humor, and her personal (especially sexual) and professional frustration.
Waller-Bridge has created a deftly funny portrait of grief, told with humility, keen insight and low-key melancholy.
By Will Ashton
FULL REVIEW
I forced my friend to watch this entire show in one sitting, he loved it.
Fleabag is an unethical, cynical, reckless, and irresponsible woman, she is, however, incredibly relatable. Her absurd behavior truly is what we all want to do but can't, our deepest impulses. Phoebe Waller-Bridge's ability to convey this accuracy to real-life awkward, sad, and lonely experiences is mindblowing. This show has a way of sticking with you for a very long time after the first watch. It is comforting on one hand, and heartbreaking on the other, with the occasional gut punch of some of the best comedy to come from England since Monty Python.
Season 2 Episode 1 is the best first episode of a season ever made, with the whole episode essentially being a dinner scene, it constantly keeps you on your toes, refreshes your memory on the tone of the series subtly, and shows the passing of time from season 1 to season 2 with such ease.
I will always come back to this show. Every friend I make in the future will be forced to watch this entire show in one sitting, and they will love it too.
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I loved both seasons the first time around, so I recently re-watched it. This time, I was struck by the opportunities for greatness that were lost by failing to follow through on the troubling issues it raises.
One would be her failure to even consider changing her behavior after it cost her a friend. It haunts her, but not enough to hesitate before having sex with every guy she encounters, with not a thought about other people their coupling might affect. So of course her guilt rings hollow.
Another opportunity comes in Season 2 (which is far better than 1). Never a question about why a priest has to "choose" in the first place. Why? Any intelligent person who follows the requirements of priesthood in that particular church (it isn't required in other ones) would question it - especially if the stakes are high for them personally, and love is in play.
No, we just get winks. Sometimes we need more than that. Going a tad deeper doesn't mean truncating the humor. Ms. Waller-Bridge is such a fine writer; I'm sure she could pull it off. Season 3, maybe?
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This would have worked SO much better as a movie. There's simply not enough there for it to be stretched out into a series and no one wants to watch such a depressing and awkward show every day after working all day. Shows can certainly have some depressing and awkward moments, but this show is very one-note.
On the upside, the acting is rather good.
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It's another hugely overrated TV comedy about a self-absorbed, navel-gazing, tortured, neurotic lower middle class woman with assumptions of artistic grandeurs. You can't help to notice that all-too-familiar British fake modesty lurking in the soul of our protagonist.
The asides cast at the audience feel forced and belie any attempt at a genuine artistic motivation since
real cinematographic artist will convey feelings without resorting to words. What we are left is a comedian trying to make us laugh at her own **** if no one had done this before. Maybe those young presumptuous artists should watch Woody Allen or just simply do bad stand-up. YAWN
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Protagonista que se da a odiar desde el primer capitulo, chistes sexuales en exceso y eso que no soy nada puritano. Mensajitos progres aqui y haya en fin, la calidad de la serie en muchos apartados es buena, pero estos dos factores me hacen romper cualquier tipo de conexion que hubiera podido llegar a tener con la serie.
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Production Company:
- Two Brothers Pictures
Initial Release Date: Jul 21, 2016
Number of seasons: 2 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 3 Wins & 4 Nominations
Gold Derby Awards
• 5 Wins & 18 Nominations
International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA)
• 8 Wins & 15 Nominations