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What blows me away about me about the power of this show is how many different reactions I’ve seen to this pilot. Cue another salient moment that most people can recognize: the inability to say no to attention. She chuckles through recounting how Boo wanted to punish her boyfriend for sleeping with another woman by stepping into a bike lane and breaking a finger and not letting him visit her in the hospital. Time check: it’s only been 16 minutes. Ready to get moving, she smiles and suggests, “we can just go back to mine”, which sets him aback and he says he has an early morning. Every time we shave our legs, every time we squeeze our feet into heels, or are embarrassed to buy tampons, that bad feminist shame persists. He gets up to go to the bathroom and Fleabag uses the opportunity to open his wallet and steal a few pounds before he abruptly turns around and asks if she wants another drink. “Still smiling :)” (ugh) but also “what are you doing tonight?” (score).
He asks for her number and if she has a boyfriend, asking what her ex did to fuck things up. An awkward walk away “I can’t stop smiling!” (cringe) turns into a run, as Fleabag realizes that she’s late. Some women do enjoy both of these things, but the vast majority of women in my life have only engaged with them out of pressure from their partner, out of some unspoken fear that if they don’t, their partner won’t want them anymore.
Angry, pervy, outrageous and hilarious, Fleabag arrives with a bang, as she spins through the city grasping at anyone and anything that might keep her head above water.JavaScript seems to be disabled. Speaking direct to camera girl about town Fleabag recounts her day starting with a one night stand with a strange request and a bus pick-up to whom she explains how she split from boyfriend Harry. I thought she was funny as all hell, extremely interesting, but at the same time deeply insecure, alone, and hurting.
All of that, and one hasn't even reached the beating heart of the show: it's outrageously funny.
It pains me to see the other reviews of this episode, of which aptly radiate the oblivious and apathetic male-centric attitude that this show so eloquently spotlights to only discard from the evidence of its flaws. Series 1: Episode 1.
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Woooo, 26 minutes of prime television y’all. Their enforced silence is interrupted by an unusual neighbouring weekend workshop
Claire is clearly trying to reach out and reestablish whatever connection they’ve lost, but Fleabag’s pride causes her to reject any attempt at kindness.
Fleabag gets her into a car, but first asks if the woman wants to come back to hers. With Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Sian Clifford, Olivia Colman, Jenny Rainsford.
She quickly pulls her top back down and apologizes, where the banker (Hugh Dennis) replies coolly, “that kind of thing won’t get you very far here anymore.” He’s clearly done with this interview, but in a desperate attempt to right the ship Fleabag bursts out “I’m not trying to shag you, look at yourself!” He asks her to leave, and she replies “perv” to which he shoots back, without looking at her, “slut”.
When they get off the bus, she gives him her number and he promises to treat her like “a nasty little bitch” - she’s excited and lets us know it.
Directed by Harry Bradbeer. Fleabag glances at us with a side smile and reassures, “it will.” Cut back to Fleabag talking to bus man, and her surprisingly thoughtful words do not match her face or tone of voice, both of which indicate that she’s making a joke about his failings when instead she’s praising all of the ways that he’s an outwardly perfect, affectionate partner who her family loves.
But instead she got flipped into the road and hit by a car, causing the deaths of two other people. He tells her he’s done for good this time and to not show up at his door with nothing but underwear on because that won’t work this time. a list of 10 titles But once a child, always a child, and when you tell a child not to do something, that’s exactly what they want to do. I felt the need to apologise to my mother, my girlfriend and the lady who served me in the local cafe immediately after watching this short piece of television that impacted, and has continued to impact, my day to day life more than many other feats of cinema have achieved in a much longer period of viewing time.
Drunk, alone when I wasn’t expecting to be, and desperate for some kind of human interaction. With Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Olivia Colman, Andrew Scott, Maddie Rice. We then get a gorgeous closing shot of Fleabag taking a statue out of her pants, the one worth “thousands” that she apparently just stole from her godmother, undoing her jacket, and sinking into herself in the cab before shooting the audience a playful and knowing look. Use the HTML below.
Fleabag and her sister visit a female-only silent retreat, courtesy of their father.
Fleabag closes by saying that Boo was “such a dick”, which is (understandably) met with silence and “what the fuck” eyes from the cab driver.
Without saying it directly, Waller-Bridge is able to capture this profound sentiment that many women (and men as well) recognize in themselves immediately, although this is couched in a seemingly throw-away line that leads to the first comic punch of the episode.
When the speaker, who begins her talk very awkwardly, a sentiment Fleabag shares and does not stop her face from reacting to, asks who in the audience would trade 5 years off their life for the so-called perfect body, Fleabag and her sister’s hands shot straight up. In Fleabag’s case, she heads to her dad’s house.
The woman rejects her, calling her a “naughty boy” and leaving Fleabag drunk and alone again.