Written as only one season initially, based on her one woman stage show, then she wrote season 2 and deliberately ended it at that point.

@Mibbitmaker

20 күн бұрын

And what's great about it is something I've been saying for a while now: The season 1 finale was a perfect ending for the series... but this episode was THE perfect ending for the series.

@heyheyjk-la

20 күн бұрын

@@Mibbitmaker Absolutely agree. Season 1 was perfect and then season 2 was perfecter with one of the greatest season finale episodes ever. Phoebe is a genius.

@psychomagicshop

20 күн бұрын

It makes sense, it’s such a poetic way to end the whole series too… the same way we were introduced. It’s the end of a chapter for her and for us.

@tastyneck

20 күн бұрын

@@Mibbitmaker Yeah. It's insane to have a perfect, one season show.... end with an even more perfect superfluous second season. Absolutely fucking brilliant show.

@Gecko....

19 күн бұрын

That's the good thing about British shows, they don't make 10 seasons and end leaving you want more. Like the office was just 2 seasons and a special so hopefully this gets a one off special.

She just doesn't need us anymore. Its so bitter sweet.

@FredtheFrisian

19 күн бұрын

She's gonna be allright!🖖

“it’ll pass” is devastating at the moment but hopeful for the future, but i’m glad andrew scott decided to add the “i love you too” line. like you said, that day she saw that the people she loved valued her back and with that she could move forward

She said in one interview that she might do a season 3 in her 50s, just to check in on how Fleabag's life has been going.

@georgiosz.9493

20 күн бұрын

Gosh i really hope we'll get to see it

@ameliacraiig4193

20 күн бұрын

I wish she'd leave it with this perfect ending.❤

@IIIIDCIIII

19 күн бұрын

@@ameliacraiig4193with Phoebe writing it, it would be amazing. She’s hands down one of the best female writers in the business.

@liv-wm7pi

19 күн бұрын

@@IIIIDCIIII I would say one of the best writers, hands down

@IIIIDCIIII

19 күн бұрын

@@liv-wm7pi I agree. Phoebe Waller Bridge, Greta Gerwig, and Sharon Horgan in my opinion are the best female writers. All three are amazing.

She leaves us. But we know she will be alright. Great show. Absolutely love Phoebe.

Here are some things that make me sob about this last episode Clare falling in love with Klare being symbolism for her loving herself again and choosing herself for once. Clare and Fleabag's relationship getting so much better to the point Clare even says how important Fleabag is. Fleabag growing so much that she doesn't need us anymore, we were her shield and coping mechanism. We were symbolic of her checking out of situations in her life to cope and now she is better. Fleabag and the Priest could never have been together, they carry so many issues from the past that have affected them in the present day. If they had never been through those experiences though then they would never have fallen in love in the first place.

I think initially she only planned one season, but it definitely wasn’t cancelled. I mean the ending was perfect

@zoex3316

20 күн бұрын

And i do think the ending wasn’t unhappy, i think this season was about her improving her relationship with her family (mainly her sister) and she definitely succeeded. She might not have gotten the priest but that relationship gave her the strength to move on from boo or leave us the viewer behind or however you interpret the ending

A perfect second season of a series.

@Martin-bf3by

21 күн бұрын

If you haven't watched Lost..that is.

@jimhsfbay

20 күн бұрын

@@Martin-bf3bymust you ruin everything?

@jimhsfbay

20 күн бұрын

@@Martin-bf3byWhy did you have to spoil something so nice?

@Martin-bf3by

20 күн бұрын

@@jimhsfbay hey I'm only saying Lost was a perfect second season. This was cute tho

@HonRevPTB

20 күн бұрын

​​​@@jimhsfbayYEAH I totally agree, he can go & stick Lost!!! This was a thoughtful, brilliant, comedic genius show!!! Dude can get spoon fed his network garbage somewhere else!!!!!!!

OK, now that you two have watched the entire thing, here is some clarification: - Fleabag was created first as a one woman theatre play. - It ran in the UK, and it was a massive success even though it was just Phoebe Waller-Bridge on a blank stage alone talking to the audience the entire time. - Phoebe was pitched the idea of turning the play into a TV series and expand Flebag's story. - It was very much set in stone from the start that there would be just one season, but, again, it was received with so much praise Phoebe and the series won several major awards. - Phoebe agreed to do a second season but said that was it, no more Flebag after that. - She said in an interview the only reason she agreed to do a second season was because she never said a proper goodbye to the viewer (the 4th wall) and so that door was open. - Sian Clifford (Claire) is Phoebe Waller-Bridge's best friend from R.A.D.A (Royal Academy Of Dramatic Art). Oh, and I would recommend watching the play if you can find it, it is very very very good as well.

Season 1 was based on Phoebe's one-woman show, I went to a showing of it at a local cinema after season 2 aired. The production was her sitting on a stool basically recounting the events of season 1 (the tv show adds plenty of scenes, but the stage play has a full character that's omitted from the tv version -an elderly regular at the cafe she bonds with) Season 2 was written for tv as a follow-up to the first, and is the intended end to the story, as far as we know. I hope so, it's a perfect close.

@bwallatube

20 күн бұрын

I went to that event also, it was the last time she intends to perform it. Nice follow up for us

You CAN get one last bit of ‘FLEABAG’ - the original stage performance is usually available on streaming sites. Covers a lot of season one but it’s still worth seeing where this show came from.

Another short comedy, thats also fill3d with emotion, is Derry Girls. Think youd like it!

"He went that way."

I'll never move on, I Know that final scene to the T, it's my Roman empire. I have the script and I even got a tattoo of "it'll pass", I was so excited to see your reaction

@ameliacraiig4193

20 күн бұрын

Awww. I love that.😊❤

@noodle_fc

20 күн бұрын

God, there's so much packed into those two words, isn't there? Fucking devastating and comforting at the same time.

@Gecko....

19 күн бұрын

Jesus Christ

Always leave them wanting more I love that for like 50% of the 1st season everyone is pretty much unlikeable, yet by the end of season 2 you find yourself really invested, lol

It didn't get cancelled. Audiences loved it. Perfect ending. Thanks for reacting to this beautiful series.❤

“It’ll pass.” 😭😭😭 every. time.

We, as the audience, became the surrogate for all the love fleabag was giving Boo- who told Fleabag to give all the love she had for her mom to her… She felt she needed us to get through a difficult time, but at the end she decides to look somewhere else. I feel like we as the audience were a kind of coping strategy for her, that she graduates from at the end of this series.

@tastyneck

20 күн бұрын

We absolutely were a coping mechanism. An escape from reality. A way to disassociate from her problems and feelings, as we could only see and hear and couldn't complicate her life. An silent partner as an outlet. The hot priest, outside of her mother and boo, was the only other person she could connect with as a two way street. He SAW her, like we saw her, which is why he could see her escaping to us. Such a great show.

I love the connection between these two lines in this episode: "I think you know how to love better than any of us. That's why you find it all so painful" and "love isn't something that weak people do. Being a romantic takes a hell of a lot of hope." I feel like throughout this show Fleabag struggles with this image that she's weaker than those around her because she's so deeply affected by things (loss of her mother, best friend's suicide). Those around her constantly push this narrative on her as well, and it seems like she gets lost in it, but these two quotes really do such a beautiful job of reframing this. It isn't weak at all to love deeply and feel pain when it ends. I think that's why her relationship with hot priest is so especially powerful--a part of her knows from the beginning that it won't last, but she still chooses to lean into it. I don't think this is self-sabotage, so much as acknowledging that love is fleeting and heartbreaking and temporal but even after all of that it's still worth it. What a damn show ugh!!!!! I love it

Really enjoyed watching both of your reactions to this series. It was like watching a slow burn of love because I wasn’t sure yall would continue this show from your first reaction, but it became clear that you were each falling in love with her more and more.

The dad giving SO many clues that he doesn’t want to be in this relationship is so scary to me. But we’re not going to see how that turns out and know he’s okay, because fleabag told us to go away 😭

@starheartskull15

20 күн бұрын

it’s really sad, i think he’s just old and lonely and probably trauma bonded with her since she knew his wife. poor guy

@wavehellhole

20 күн бұрын

I’m terrified for him

@nbucwa6621

20 күн бұрын

@@starheartskull15 I also think he likes being with someone so unlikeable. He's pretty much said that one of the things that bothered him, made him feel worse about himself, was how likeable and loveable Fleabag's mom was. I think part of his attraction to the stepmother is that he finally feels equal to someone if not superior. Stepmom being unlikeable makes him feel better about himself.

@psychomagicshop

20 күн бұрын

@@nbucwa6621 yo that is an interesting take, I can see it

@lernernernerdicapricorn6914

3 күн бұрын

@@nbucwa6621that’s a really interesting point that I’d never considered. Also makes me think the mom and dads relationship paralleled Fleabags and Claire’s in some ways, with Claire resenting Flea for being so effortlessly charming

He had god watching over him, and decided he still needed him. She had us, but reached the stage where she could move on. So said goodbye to us. And in real life she buggered off to joint script the latest Bond movie.

Every single time Fleabag was talking to us, she was cutting herself off from the person she was currently talking to, we were never an unequivocally good thing in her life. The sitcom audience as defence mechanism, explicitly recognised and finally healed from. Bonkers when you think about it really!

I read somewhere that the Fox is Hot Priest version of breaking the fourth wall and like the Hot Priest seeing fleabag breaking the 4th wall, only Fleabag has gotten to know Hot Priest intimately and deeply enough to see the fox and validate that his fears are real. In the end while Fleabag has left us behind and is in the process of healing herself, hot priest still has his struggles(what ever it is the fox is representing) that he needs to get through.

Awww, Maple and Arianna are becoming Bester Friends. 🖐️✊🖐️✊🖐️✊🖐️✊

“Love makes you creepy” shot to creepy step son 😭

This is miraculous, profoundly compelling television. Even on the umpteenth watch it just has you in a chokehold beginning to end. It makes me feel proud to be British to be honest (and that’s something I rarely feel), the acting talent on show is nuts and Phoebe Waller-Bridge is seriously *gifted*. You’ll never stop rewatching it! X

one of the best finales of a show ever. the priest's speech at the wedding is so moving, and i love you/it'll pass still hits like a truck.

First reactors I've ever seen show the bassoon piece called WHERE'S Claire I love that joke so much 😂

THE PRIEST'S SPEECH MAKES ME BAWL EVERYTIME - "love isn't something weak people do" ...

It’s such a powerful ending. I know so many people focus on the heartbreak, but it misses the point. Something awful happened to her and for once, she doesn’t react in a self destructive manner. She feels the pain but knows she can cope with it. That’s the state I wish I could get to in my life. It’s hopeful.

With this coming to an end, we should get two days of reactions from the Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul universe.

I’d like to recommend Derry Girls. Love your reactions :)

@evanliu1939

18 күн бұрын

Also The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Criminally underrated show.

In an interview she said that she may possibly bring Fleabag back at age 50. If you haven’t watched her on stage version of Fleabag I HIGHLY recommend it. The story is a little different, but I thought it showed just how good of a performer Phoebe Waller Bridge is.

If you can find the time, check out Bill Paterson in "Comfort and joy" from about 1980. Great little movie directed byBill Forsyth set in Glasgow

She went on to write the first season of Killing Eve which earned Jodie Comer an Emmy.

I think this one should have been an individual experience for each, it hits so much harder when you're alone

Even through a reaction Fleabag's ending gives me shivers. I think if you want more of this energy of hilarious but troubled person figures themself out - watch Feel Good by Mae Martin. Also two seasons, where the first season is perfect, and the second season is perfection ✨

I'm sure it's already been suggested, but I think you would really like Crashing, also written/starring Waller-Bridge.

Have you seen Killing Eve yet?

@HerbalHairbear

20 күн бұрын

Great recommendation

there is another series written by phoebe waller-bridge based on a novel series titled villanelle, the show's "Killing Eve". tho she was head writer for season 1 only. it's great and women-centric, also stars jodie comer and sandra oh.

I saw the stage show via National Theatre Live. They record plays and show them in movie theaters. Well worth it if you have the chance to see it!

I love how you didn't get this show at the beginning but by the end totally loved it.

sorry but the actor for martin is just brilliant. also i love the humor even through the dramatic dialogue - "do you know what the bassoon is? IT'S A CRY FOR HELP!!!!" lmao

@louvelvet

18 күн бұрын

i also love how powerful claire sounds even down on her knees. "i didn't think you'd do that in that dress." HELPPP

We definitely need more British comedies now 💖

thank u for allowing us to experience it all over again through ur eyes. dont know how many watches it would take for me not to end up a mess by the end, but its always a welcome feeling cause this is a gem of a series. "it'll pass."

Phoebe Waller-Bridge is a massive talent. Between the Fleabag stage show and season one she did a marvelous series called Crashing. It's only six episodes long so not too much of a commitment. It's really funny and as with all her work even secondary characters get moments to shine. By all accounts she's exceptionally generous as both a writer and performer. No hogging the big scenes for herself. I've seen a few Killing Eve recommendations and I wholeheartedly agree with this proviso: she was only the show runner for season 1. Momentum and a marvelous cast carried it through season 2 but seasons 3 & 4 were hit and miss at best and its ending was right up (or down) there with Lost. Whatever you choose, love your reactions so hope you end up with a show you like.

If you haven't watched already, I think you two would love Derry Girls and Bad Sisters!

Definitely not cancelled. There is a long standing tradition of six episode seasons and limiting to no more than a couple of seasons. A number of writers point to Fawlty Towers (1975) as the blueprint for this, it regarded as having set the standard for great and precise writing, but still leaving while the audience wants more. The contract can be seen in The Office, in the UK it was 2 seasons of 6 episodes each, followed by a later Christmas episode. Compared to the US version, which copied everything from those seasons and then went on for seven more, with over twenty episodes per season. Quality tv shows in the UK are written in the opposite way from the US. A writer will generally present a show that has a beginning, middle and end. In the US, a writer will present a concept with virtually no direction and the studio hopes that the audience likes the characters, so they can run the show into the ground before abandoning it. To maintain the longevity and fill schedules, US shows have teams of writers and will continue long after the shows creators have left. It makes shows tedious, disjointed and aimless. And that’s why shows end up - literally jumping the shark. There are a number of six episode, limited season comedies that the UK has turned out, among them are Detectorists, Mum and Carshare. All of which are brilliant for being high concept, or especially eventful, but are absolutely beautifully written. In Mum, it is only in the final series that characters leave the house, in Carshare, only a very few scenes are shot outside the car. By placing these limits on themselves, the writers are forced to realise, write characters and dialogue that can do it all. In a U.S. comedy show they tend to write for the lowest common denominator. If they want to reveal a character as heroic, or compassionate or mean, they will write a whole episode where a bizarre set of circumstances- and often a different location are used to set up the character for the reveal. In a quality UK comedy/drama, a character might reveal themselves with a single sentence, or with a pause. If you do watch any of those series I mentioned and you should, you can see the skill in the writing when characters reveal themselves. In each of those shows there are characters who seem harsh or stupid, but are revealed to be something we didn’t realize - sometimes to the extent that the viewer feels guilty for having misjudged them.

Cause he's never named lol I love that. Have any of you ever forgot the name of a close friend for a moment .

Bittersweet ending, but I do have to say, I was THRILLED for Claire (and Klare, lol). When she got on her knees and said "PLEASE leave me"(HAAAAAAA, take that, Martin!) and then later took off to the airport, I practically cheered. I was so happy for her to finally have some genuine joy in her life. Likewise for Fleabag -- it really really hurts when the Priest chooses his calling, but I love the ending where she essentially says goodbye to us and lets us know that she'll be alright. She doesn't need us anymore. She's finally ready to move forward with her life. Phoebe is a brilliant writer and actress and I really want to see more and more of her work. I hope she gets to do another amazing show very soon.

Thank you for reacting to this. Amazing TV. Top 10.

In a different vein, but still about the complexity of navigating a relationship “car share” is a must. Fleabag while always be top tier, but car share is incredibly bitter sweet

yearssss and this finale still hits like a fucking track

Phenomenal show. Love these reactions

There's something so funny/sad about how are of his personality Martin is like he treats it like this immutable trait.

I was depressed when it was over

IT'LL PASS

she's said she might do a season 3 one day but that it would be a long long time from now and would probably be quite different.

A real mind bend is realizing most of the characters don't have official names IE the priest, her literal dad and the god mother

I'm gonna go ahead and suggest "You're The Worst" as a show you might want to check out, if you liked this one. It starts off mostly on the bawdy/funny side of things but it unlocks a surprising amount of depth.

Cancelled? What an insane thought.

You guys don't have to mask I love seeing people stim freely haha

Diegesis Awesome Video Today!!🔥🐐🐐💎

I played bassoon...

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND MR. INBETWEEN!!!!!!! I think you guys would really appreciate that show & the walking dichotomy the main character Ray Shoesmith is, especially when he's with his daughter!!!

I like british shows, they dont do season after season until they become bad, they end on a high leaving you wanting more.

Foi incrível acompanhar fleabag com vocês meninas ❤🥲

@Diegesis

20 күн бұрын

Merci!

If you need a new show to watch now that this great season is over, I very much recommend Derry Girls. I have a feeling you two would love it and it's amazing comedy.

@Diegesis

20 күн бұрын

great recommendation. we already have a new show on the schedule but i'll keep it on the list.

Loved this Series and glad you both enjoyed it. If you ladies are brave, maybe watch I May Destroy You.

I suggest checking out Killing Eve. It's definitely not the same vibe, but it's written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag herself), and it's a great mixture of a fun plot, great acting, beautiful locations, and subtle humor. I bet you'd like it.

@LeVidocq

20 күн бұрын

Only the first season

You guys should watch the owl house

Woukd loev you to react to insecure lmaoo

WTF fleabag just broke up with us

Killing Eve may be a good show to pick up. Phoebe created the show and wrote the first season. It’s really good

Please watch the stage show

React to killing eve next

Hey why did you guys stop reacting to The Legend of Korra????????

@ariannaw6858

20 күн бұрын

we didn’t we finished the series….