Tremendously appealing and emotionally pungent, and darker and deeper than I'd expected. Season 2 in particular is a marvel; the moment when the priest notices her asides to 'us' is electric, and the way the show develops the significance of those performatively conspiratorial comments to camera over the rest of the season, including in illustrating her development across the two seasons, is remarkably clever and at times uncanny. The stakes feel high, and real, especially in their flirtation. There are laughs too, and by the end mercy for all its main characters as well. I had a lot of feelings while watching Fleabag, and admired it very much it.
Assorted thoughts:
Assorted thoughts:
- Straight after seeing it, I expected my defining image of her character - and her monstrousness - to be the scene where she gigglingly sneaks up with a knife on her drip of a boyfriend in the shower. That by the end it's been replaced by not one but several others is a testament to the show's depth and its layering of her character and our understanding of it.
- So many of the people in her life are just terrible. Olivia Colman as her mother-in-law to be is particularly something.
- Her relationship with her sister Claire is right up there with the very best bits of the show.
