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Creator
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Cast
Phoebe Waller-Bridge,
Olivia Colman,
Bill Paterson,
Hugh Dennis
Genre
Comedy
As she hurls herself headlong at modern living, Fleabag is thrown roughly up against the walls of contemporary London, sleeping with anyone who dares to stand too close, squeezing money from wherever she can, rejecting anyone who tries to help her, and keeping up her bravado throughout.
I am obsessed with this show! Honestly, the first season was not my favorite. But the second season with Andrew Scott as Hot Priest is incredible. I adore every character on this show. Olivia Coleman and Sian Clifford stand out. I also love Phoebe Waller-Bridge's other series, Killling Eve and Crashing.
Fleabag is enthralling from start to finish, it is wildly original and profoundly moving as well as laugh out loud hilarious. It's so well suited for television despite being adapted from Phoebe Waller-Bridge's stage play, and it is such a deep character study in just six half-hour episodes per season.
The Atlantic by Sophie Gilbert
An almost annoyingly perfect show about the inseparable agony and ecstasy of being alive. ... Everything wonderful about the show remains.
New York Magazine (Vulture) by Jen Chaney
Fleabag season two, the follow-up to Waller-Bridge’s initial, brutally honest portrait of a British woman on the brink, is even better than the first.
Sioux City Journal by Bruce Miller
“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.
TV Guide Magazine by Matt Roush
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]
The New Yorker by Emily Nussbaum
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.
IndieWire by Ben Travers
Fleabag is such an exciting new series it’s hard to settle down long enough to appreciate its many impressive attributes.
The Hollywood Reporter by Tim Goodman
[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.
Collider by Allison Keene
Fleabag unpacks the life of a complicated young woman--with all of its pain, insecurity, anger, humor, friendship, impulses, and more--with a unique sensibility that makes it essential viewing.
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