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Fleabag

★ 8.7 250K votes 2016–2019 2 seasons · 12 episodes Ended BBC Three
Female perspectiveWomen's experience as the defining lens.This show: 10/10Character studyInterior life matters more than plot.This show: 10/10Tight writingNo wasted scenes, just disciplined storytelling.This show: 9/10Dialogue-drivenThe writing's voice is the main event.This show: 9/10BittersweetJoy and loss mixed so thoroughly they can't be separated.This show: 9/10Dark comedyFinding the laughs in grim and taboo material.This show: 9/10Strong female leadA complex woman drives the story.This show: 9/10British TVThe British television sensibility: tone, restraint and format traditions.This show: 9/10
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Starring
Phoebe Waller-BridgeSian CliffordOlivia ColmanJenny RainsfordBill PatersonBrett Gelman
Written by
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Starring
Phoebe Waller-BridgeSian CliffordOlivia ColmanJenny RainsfordBill PatersonBrett Gelman
Written by
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
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"Confessional comedy that turns into quiet devastation"

Fleabag follows a grief-stricken, sexually reckless woman running a failing café in London, narrating her life directly to camera with brutal honesty. What starts as razor-sharp, filthy comedy about bad decisions and family dysfunction gradually reveals a deep well of guilt and loss underneath. The pace is quick, scenes are short and cutting, and the fourth-wall device makes you complicit in her jokes before turning that intimacy against you. It's a tight, rewatchable show anchored entirely by its lead performance, moving from laugh-out-loud discomfort to genuine heartbreak without ever losing its wit.

Watch it for

the lead performance, which turns direct-address comedy into one of TV's most devastating character studies.

Maybe skip if

you're uncomfortable with frank sexual content or narrators who manipulate your sympathy.

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All Seasons

Season 12016
8.035K62h 31m
A bittersweet portrait into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, porn-watching, grief-riddled woman, trying to make sense of the world. As she hurls herself headlong at modern living, Fleabag is thrown roughly up against the walls of contemporary London, with all its frenetic energy, late nights, and bright lights, in this very modern mix of fatalism and hedonism, sustaining a merry-go-round of broken dreamers. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, this is the thoroughly disarming confessional of a woman so totally detached, she’s utterly lost, and ultimately wondering what the hell she ought to be doing in life. Much like the rest of us.
Season 22019
8.938K62h 31m
Picking up one year after the end of the first series, while Fleabag appears to be more at ease with herself and her newly bustling café, her family seems to be whirling into further turmoil around her. Having not spoken to her sister since we last left her, Fleabag reconnects with Claire at their father’s engagement party, which turns out to be far from a celebration. There, she meets a Catholic priest who turns her life upside down… Series 2 is an exploration into everything that makes us human: love, religion, hope and heartbreak.

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Phoebe Waller-Bridge Fleabag
Sian Clifford Claire
Olivia Colman Godmother
Jenny Rainsford Boo
Bill Paterson Dad
Brett Gelman Martin
Andrew Scott The Priest
Hugh Skinner Harry
Ben Aldridge Arsehole Guy
Hugh Dennis Bank Manager

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