36 - Fleabag

This week we review - Fleabag (Series 2 Episode 3)
Hilarious and hurtful, a confession of the modern woman.
Starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Olivia Colman and Bill Paterson, Fleabag is a hilarious and poignant window 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.
Unfettered and unfiltered, Fleabag tears through the series sleeping with anyone who dares to stand too close, squeezing money from any orifice, rejecting anyone who tries to help her and keeping up the bravado all along because that's just the kind of messed-up, normal person she is.
By turns hilarious and heart-breaking, 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.
In this episode, Fleabag helps with an event at her sister Claire's work which inevitably ends in disaster, but an introduction to Claire's colleague proves intriguing, and a chance meeting with a stranger opens Fleabag's eyes.
Created & written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
Produced By Lydia Hampson & Sarah Hammond.
A Two Brothers Pictures Limited Production for the BBC.
Fleabag is available to watch at: https://bbc.in/2Ygl5K7
And is available to buy at: https://bit.ly/2FrwQWp
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