Rating: 5 out of 5
Starring: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Sian Clifford, Olivia Colman
Streaming on: Amazon Prime
Seasons: 2 seasons, 6 episodes each
SPOILERS AHEAD!
Season 1: Fleabag is a screw-up. She doesn’t take anything seriously, making life around her chaotic. She owns a struggling cafe, her best friend recently died (accident or suicide, unclear), her sister (Sian Clifford) is massively successful and married, her father got into a relationship with a woman who hates her after her mother’s death. So life is not going well and she is not helping matters. She gets into physical relationships indiscriminately. She doesn’t like her sister’s husband, but he likes her a bit too much, her and alcohol. Even though her relationship with her sister is rocky, she tells her about the husband coming on to the fleabag. That confrontation fired back and she is forced to look at her life’s choices.
Season 2: Fleabag turns her cafe around with the help of a loan from the bank, hasn’t talked to her sister in a year and has ended the unhealthy relationships. The family comes together for her father’s engagement party, along with the priest (Andrew Scott). He is the one person in the whole world who notices Fleabag talking to the audience. The season tackles with Fleabag’s maturity into a person who is taking her life seriously and dealing with the unpleasantness.
END OF SPOILERS
The whole series is beautiful. It is funny, smart, emotional, profound and overall a blast. It is so clever that other than a few characters, Fleabag’s best friend, her on-again-off-again boyfriend and her sister, no other character has a name. Andrew Scott stole hearts with his new-age priest character (named Priest). The interactions of Fleabag with people around her give the correct emotions we need to feel, frustration, longing, sadness, love. The Priest’s speech in the end is something to go back again and again and get perspective on love. This series is a definite must watch.
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