Fleabag: Season 1

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Amazon Prime | Prime Video | Amazon Prime Video | Season Premiere 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 (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) deals with struggles with running her cafe and the memory of the death of her best friend with one-night stands, stealing and drinking.

Genre(s): Comedy, Drama

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E6. Episode 6
Air Date: September 16, 2016
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S1:E5. Episode 5
Air Date: September 16, 2016
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S1:E4. Episode 4
Air Date: September 16, 2016

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Emily Nussbaum

Sep 19, 2016

Fleabag is an original. ... By the final episode, which I won’t spoil but which touches on themes of forgiveness, her story feels richer than many dramas. Read full review

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IndieWire Ben Travers

Sep 16, 2016

Fleabag is such an exciting new series it’s hard to settle down long enough to appreciate its many impressive attributes. Read full review

Lisa Weidenfeld

Sep 16, 2016

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

Maureen Ryan

Sep 7, 2016

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. Read full review

Sophie Gilbert

Sep 16, 2016

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. Read full review

Ken Tucker

Sep 16, 2016

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. Read full review

Will Ashton

Sep 14, 2016

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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parenter

Sep 20, 2016

Excelent season. The feeling has left me is awesome, the whole plot is excellent. The first chapter not hooked me but still gave it a second chance and from the second chapter was completely flawed to the series. It is great to see how they fit all the charactes in his scenes.

7 of 12 users found this helpful75

donelson

Feb 6, 2017

Totally brilliant, alive, funny and real. I am not sure how they could provide a second season with as much punch and depth, without pathos. This is the best comedy of any sort that I have seen in decades.

2 of 2 users found this helpful20

marcmyworks

Oct 2, 2016

This British black-comedy soars high with its wit and tragedy. A young woman (Fleabag) tries to deal with the pressures of her family, London and the death of her best friend all while creating a humorous commentary on her journey.

5 of 9 users found this helpful54

Lorddi

Aug 20, 2023

What I like the most about this series is that Phoebe Waller-Bridge excels at making you feel like you are part of a chaotic, invasive and twisted friendship like no other show can.

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mstivers

Oct 1, 2016

Highly original and well done. The main character is a trainwreck that we can´t look away from. I am very conflicted about this show. I generally enjoy it but she makes so many horrible choices that I stop the playback and ask myself, "Do I really want to watch this?"

4 of 7 users found this helpful43

Yossie3011

Jan 19, 2017

Such a clever series, moving from outrageous comedy to a moving personal and family drama as the episodes reveal the full story. Top script, top acting. Brilliant.

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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

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 2

96
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: March 4, 2019
Season 1

88
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: July 21, 2016
- tbd
  S1:E6. Episode 6
  Air Date: September 16, 2016
- tbd
  S1:E5. Episode 5
  Air Date: September 16, 2016
- tbd
  S1:E4. Episode 4
  Air Date: September 16, 2016
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  S1:E3. Episode 3
  Air Date: September 16, 2016
- 7.8
  S1:E2. Episode 2
  Air Date: September 16, 2016
- 7.3
  S1:E1. Episode 1
  Air Date: September 16, 2016