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Critic Reviews
May 20, 2019
Season 2 Review:
If Waller-Bridge failed to deliver a follow-up to her aggressively wonderful first season of “Fleabag,” in which she stars on top of writing, one might wonder what the point was in having two great series suffer. But there’s no such need, given the absolutely masterful execution of the comedy’s sophomore run, an example of brilliance slathered on brilliance.
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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.
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RogerEbert.comMay 16, 2019
Season 2 Review:
It’s clever, compelling, and endlessly thoughtful. That’s true of the series as a whole. Too often you watch a television show and wonder what could have been excised; here, not a beat is spared. Yet when it reaches its bittersweet, indelible conclusion, the ache isn’t one of wishing “Fleabag” could go on forever. It’s a simple, sweet moment of loss.
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TV Guide MagazineMay 9, 2019
Season 2 Review:
Crackling with intelligence but consumed with regrets and issues with her broken family, this neurotic Fleabag is an audacious marvel. [13-26 May 2019, p.11]
Sep 16, 2016
Season 1 Review:
[A] truly wonderful new comedy. ... How Waller-Bridge walks her character up to the edge of emotional frailty and then only explores a small part of it, brings out the pathos that so clearly lies behind the comedy and leaves you wanting more development and character exploration.
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May 14, 2019
Season 2 Review:
Among Fleabag’s great joys is its ability to be gut-bustingly funny while exploring its main character’s very real and obvious suffering. That gift is on ample display from the season’s first minute to its last. ... And because we’ve now spent so much time in her company, Fleabag’s failures and her triumphs resonate even more deeply than before, in a way that lets the season surpass the first on many levels.
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Sep 16, 2016
Season 1 Review:
The show itself is sneakily insightful. ... Waller-Bridge’s awkwardness, her moments of rampant egoism followed by crushing bleakness, make Fleabag one of the most distinctive female characters in recent memory. Never has being a modern woman seemed so painfully funny, so brutal, and so hopeless, all at once.
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Sep 16, 2016
Season 1 Review:
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.
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Sep 7, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Around the middle of the season, the show takes aim at a couple of easy targets in an episode set at a silent retreat full of huffy New Age types, but then it skirts past some of the obvious jokes to conclude with scenes that are both warmly goofy and ever-so-slightly earnest. In its home stretch, it also gains depth and unexpected power, and its first-season finale is not to be missed.
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May 7, 2019
Season 2 Review:
With the characters and their histories now mostly clear to the audience, the story moves along a somewhat less bold, more conventional path compared to last season, which constantly doubled back by recontextualizing and reexamining itself. Despite this more straightforward approach, though, the series still boasts Waller-Bridge’s unmistakable voice and her witty, resonant characterizations.
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TV Guide MagazineSep 23, 2016
Season 1 Review:
This Fleabag will make you squirm between laughs. [26 Sep 2016-2 Oct 2016, p.17]
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