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Fleabag

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Universal acclaim based on 231 Ratings

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Amazon Prime | Prime Video | Amazon Prime Video | Release Date: July 21, 2016

Summary: Based on the play by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the BBC3 comedy series focuses on an angry, self-loathing 20-something nicknamed Fleabag who struggles with running her cafe and the memory of the death of her best friend.

Genre(s): Comedy, Drama

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S2:E6. Episode 6
Air Date: May 17, 2019
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S2:E5. Episode 5
Air Date: May 17, 2019
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S2:E4. Episode 4
Air Date: May 17, 2019

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Critic Reviews

100

Sioux City Journal

Bruce Miller

May 13, 2019

Season 2 Review: “Fleabag” has callbacks to the first season’s revelation and an ending that’s so perfect it really should be in a textbook for comedy writers. Read full review

100

Slate

Willa Paskin

May 16, 2019

Season 2 Review: Fleabag Season 2, which I cannot recommend highly enough, is thrillingly deep, funny, and buoyant. ... The ending is hopeful, but, to my mind, a little rushed. What a joy, for my major complaint about a TV show to be that there is not enough of it—the opposite problem of basically every other show on television. Read full review

100

The Guardian Lucy Mangan

Dec 4, 2019

Season 2 Review: 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. Read full review

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The A.V. Club

Lisa Weidenfeld

Sep 16, 2016

Season 1 Review: 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. Read full review

90

Vox.com

Caroline Framke

Sep 19, 2016

Season 1 Review: Fleabag is so wonderfully messy, funny, and deeply human that these seemingly chaotic collisions feel natural. Read full review

83

Entertainment Weekly

Darren Franich

Apr 29, 2019

Season 2 Review: Some wrap-up elements are conventional after season 1's primal scream. ... But Clifford and Waller-Bridge are a transcendent sister act. And the spiritual plotline is transgressive, even Bergman-esque. [3/10 May 2019, p.74] Read full review

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We Got This Covered

Will Ashton

Sep 14, 2016

Season 1 Review: Waller-Bridge has created a deftly funny portrait of grief, told with humility, keen insight and low-key melancholy. Read full review

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bostonguy247

May 18, 2019

Excellent and original. The cast, writing and directing is simply superb. Give it a try, you won't be disappointed!

4 of 5 users found this helpful41

10

gabrielmaier

Aug 6, 2021

É tão... sei lá, por que você tá me olhando?.. Linda e inteligente e perspicaz e de partir o coração! A segunda temporada é a melhor coisa que existe. O que é a cena na mesa do restaurante?!

0 of 0 users found this helpful00

10

realmc26

Jul 14, 2019

Brilliant acting, brilliant writing, easily one of the best comedies in years

1 of 2 users found this helpful11

9

amheretojudge

Jun 11, 2019

Skilful and substantial, Phoebe Waller-Bridge is exhaling her views, you might have know this subject before too, but she makes sure, you never went this far.

Fleabag Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the creator, the blood and dust, the whole crowd, of the game, is practically confessing. TheSkilful and substantial, Phoebe Waller-Bridge is exhaling her views, you might have know this subject before too, but she makes sure, you never went this far.

Fleabag

Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the creator, the blood and dust, the whole crowd, of the game, is practically confessing. The honesty, often similar to Lena Dunham's Girls, is the aspect that grounds this exaggerated cut-throat world that we all crave for. The writing is sharp, there is no denying that, but shot like a film, the execution is erotically beautiful especially, when it comes to balance the drama with the absurdity, that it, without failing, wishes to achieve so gleefully. No matter how sensitive and deeply personal an issue grows, the mockery is a part of how these characters breathe

Plus, all the family drama that comes in every now and then, brimmed with sarcastic comments that casts quite a contradiction in its taste; the loud subtlety is the language which looks easily addictive and raunchy. The series also breaks the fourth wall which ironically, despite its vocab, it follows less Ryan Reynolds's Deadpool version and more Guy Ritchie's Sherlock-ian theory. The narrator is often questioned and after getting used to it, the switched authority is both fascinating and engaging. Personally, the motivational piece of ingredient in here is to be confident and brave enough to be persuasive in your manner.

For instance, pointing out the elephant, is the theme of the party, then you shouldn't be afraid to rattle your audience with repetition and expressive innuendos. Waller-Bridge is never afraid to do so, she will scrape off one more layer if it can tantalise you. And then there is always that slapstick humor at the back of your pocket, to block these calls from being a cheap shot; calculatively provocative and never manipulative. Fleabag, the last likeable person for us to be rooting for, is pretty much like a character from any gangsta film, the character begs for empathy as much as you get to know her, error is her crown and sarcasm her main weapon.… Expand

0 of 1 users found this helpful01

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fedefreaks

Aug 19, 2023

I wish i could watch this for the first time again, loved every second of it.

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m15964

Jun 2, 2019

I don't agree with them when they say that this is a well done job for the creator because I think it's a waste of time to watch this person who is absolutely a loser and we don't find out any changes in it's personality. Maybe it's a good series to watch just to get to know something aboutI don't agree with them when they say that this is a well done job for the creator because I think it's a waste of time to watch this person who is absolutely a loser and we don't find out any changes in it's personality. Maybe it's a good series to watch just to get to know something about this character but it's a little more than what it should be.… Expand

5 of 5 users found this helpful50

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pur__0_0__

Jul 10, 2021

I watched Fleabag thinking it's gonna be something like The Marvelous Mrs Maisel. A comedy series with a female lead who is funny, and has social commentary about how people behave. I had already thought that this is going to be very good. The thumbnail of her crying with her mascara comingI watched Fleabag thinking it's gonna be something like The Marvelous Mrs Maisel. A comedy series with a female lead who is funny, and has social commentary about how people behave. I had already thought that this is going to be very good. The thumbnail of her crying with her mascara coming out made it seem like it's gonna be something emotional too.
But it turns out this was a hot pile of garbage. The moment it began with Fleabag trying to be relatable saying, "You know how it feels when you have a one night stand with someone and then realise he's not the kind of a person who you were thinking and something something kissing sex sex?" Yeah sure, who doesn't know how that feels like? It's something that happens everyday, right? I thought it was meant to say unrelatable things in such a way that it seems relatable, but it turns out it wasn't that, because later on she keeps speaking like this the whole show.
The only thing this serial talks about is banging. There's Fleabag who only keeps thinking about sex, there's the stepmother who makes dicks on the wall, there's Fleabag's boyfriend who keeps texting her to send pictures of genitals because he's horny (seriously, who asks for genitals on being horny?). Her sister is horny, her friends are horny, everyone she dates is horny. No one even thinks logically. Fleabag ruins his mother's party in the last episode because...?
There are occasional funny scenes like in the beginning of Season 2 where she says her dad is dead but then says he's alive. There are 6 episodes in each season, each episode being less than half an hour which begs the question why is this even a series and not a film. I just ended up wasting time. So overall there's no character development, no humour, no story, no world building, no logic. Just sex jokes.
There's nothing worthwhile to watch in this pile of garbage. It doesn't have anything that will carry on with you, something you could look back to. You know how much I hated it considering I have never given a 0 star review to any show before.… Expand

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

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Seasons & Episodes

92

Series Overview
Season 2

96
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: March 4, 2019
- 6.9
  S2:E6. Episode 6
  Air Date: May 17, 2019
- tbd
  S2:E5. Episode 5
  Air Date: May 17, 2019
- tbd
  S2:E4. Episode 4
  Air Date: May 17, 2019
- tbd
  S2:E3. Episode 3
  Air Date: May 17, 2019
- tbd
  S2:E2. Episode 2
  Air Date: March 11, 2019
- tbd
  S2:E1. Episode 201
  Air Date: March 4, 2019
Season 1

88
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: July 21, 2016