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Flea Bag (2016)

2016 · Comedy,Drama · contemporary-realistic, family-relational

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Fleabag is a compact, formally audacious British comedy-drama in which Phoebe Waller-Bridge plays a chaotic, sexually frank, grieving young London woman who narrates her own dysfunction directly to camera. The device begins as a comedic trick and deepens into the show's emotional spine. Beneath the vulgar wit and dark gags is a portrait of unprocessed grief — for a dead best friend, a broken family — that sneaks up on viewers who arrived expecting laughs. Season 2 introduces Andrew Scott's 'Hot Priest' as a genuine equal, elevating both the comedy and the heartbreak. Short (12 episodes total), exceptionally re-watchable, and almost universally regarded as a modern classic of British television by those who connect with its register.

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I thought it would be a comedy going in, and it did really make me laugh at times, but it turned out to be something very different. Some of, if not THE best storytelling i've ever seen in series format.
Fantastic acting, editing, photography if that's the right word. I really can't think of anything else like it off the top of my head.
as a 50 year old bloke this should be well off the mark for me but instead I find it by far the funniest, well observed and at times poignant thing on TV at the moment.
This special sort of humor is always highly divisive. Either you love it or you hate it. In my experience for shows like Fleabag there's no such ratings like "quite entertaining and funny at times"!
Phoebe Waller-Bridge is incredibly talented in so many ways, I can't tell what's more adorable about her work in Fleabag: the acting, the uncommon storytelling, the firework of weird gags...? Everything is fresh and unique.

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