Claire left to find "Klare". So maybe it's like she finally went to find herself.

@watchthiswithjoeandkevin6

Жыл бұрын

That's a really good observation.

@rolandcooke

Жыл бұрын

It really is a good observation. I didn't fully appreciate until this re-watch that a key reason - perhaps the only reason - that Claire originally wasn't going to take the Finland job was she felt that she needed to stay near her "broken sister". And we know from the pavement (sidewalk) scene in S1E6 just how broken Fleabag actually was. And that kind of co-dependence defined Claire's complete existence, nothing for herself, she doesn't think she is successful in life, despite her huge office. And in all the most important ways, she's exactly correct. The conclusion of S2 sees Claire finally confident with both herself AND with her sister. Confident enough that she doesn't _need_ to run through the airport after Klare (she would only do that for Fleabag), but confident that she can now safely leave Fleabag...and _choose_ to run through an airport for Klare.

I’m glad he said I love you back too! I believe it wasn’t written in the script but Andrew Scott felt it really needed to be said so he fought for it. Not only does it make for a really nice moment, (and the cut to Fleabag’s reaction is so heartbreaking!) I also think it was integral to show how much of a sacrifice breaking up was for him too. “It will pass” is sweet and true and heartbreaking but also distinctly… priest-mode. But telling her he loves her feels like him just speaking to her as the equally flawed person he is.

@watchthiswithjoeandkevin6

Жыл бұрын

Agree. It was a milestone moment for Fleabag, even with the relationship ending.

"It's God, isn't it?" No preamble needed, hits brutally and lovingly and positively all at the same time. Masterful.

@watchthiswithjoeandkevin6

Жыл бұрын

Yes. Such wonderful writing.

I have NEVER seen the two of you as exuberant as you were when Clair told Martin it was over and the moment when we found out the name of Jake's composition. Great job, gents!

@watchthiswithjoeandkevin6

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! We were definitely excited for that moment.

Man, it’s so good to see people who fully appreciate Fleabag. Such an underrated show

This episode is such a beautiful culmination of the two seasons, it hits every spot it needs to, it's perfect. The "Fuck you" "Fuck you" between Martin and Fleabag, the "I like Claire!", Claire throwing Martin's words back at him, Godmother forgetting the dad's name, "I think you know how to love better than all of us, that's why you find it so painful", the Priest's speech about love (and the dad being the only one seeming to accept his words from the start), the dad asking Fleabag to take him to the altar and clinging to her like he told her to cling to the parts of her that come from her mom, Claire finally letting go of her rigidity for a bit and doing something dramatic, the maturity and the heartbreak of the breakup scene, her little goodbye to us... UGH! IT'S SO GOOD! People talk a lot about the breakup scene, but everything else is just as good. The perfect ending to an instant classic of a tv show.

@watchthiswithjoeandkevin6

Жыл бұрын

This was, without question, one of the best series finales I have ever seen. Start to finish.

I was waiting for you to watch this episode just because I knew they tie up everything in the last episode in the most beautiful way. Great show and thanks for talking about it!

@watchthiswithjoeandkevin6

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! This was a near-flawless finale.

Phoebe also wrote a show called killing eve which is brilliant as well!! 4 seasons 8 episode seasons - Worth checking out at least the first season

@watchthiswithjoeandkevin6

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! We will look into it.

@carlalussini

Жыл бұрын

​@@watchthiswithjoeandkevin6first season is amazing, then Phoebe left as showerunner but Emerald Finnel or something (she's Camila in the Crown and directed the AMAZING movie Promising young woman, do a reaction btw!) And it was ok, then the third showrunner was bad and the ending incredibly disappointing. People saw chemistry between the protagonists and so the show started to queerbait but then never went anywhere with it to the point where it almost felt homophobic. It was a very unsatisfying ending to a mediocre last season who was only salvaged by the actors being perfect in their roles.

Seriously, guys. Check out Broadchurch. While Phoebe Waller-Bridge is a secondary character... she is still brilliant... and I still think that it's Oliva Coleman's best work (though I haven't seen The Father yet)

@JulietteReacts

Жыл бұрын

100% agreed. It makes for wonderful reactions because of how cleverly the show points you to different suspects and their motivations.

@watchthiswithjoeandkevin6

Жыл бұрын

We will look into it! Thank you!

@Jenboree

Жыл бұрын

Such a great suggestion! Fabulous show and absolutely brilliant cast. It's a who's who of British TV and film. Plus the story is absolutely riveting.

@ninino86

5 ай бұрын

@@watchthiswithjoeandkevin6 Atleast the first season, its gold. Sad gold.. And as a bonus David Tennant and Olivia Coleman are simply marvelous together and bring some well needed humour to such a sad show. David Tennant being angry and scottish and Olivia Coleman being repressed and oh so very british, perfection.

Perfect ending to a perfect show. The show had some great lines that I relate to and I think about them often since I saw the show in 2020. I love both the depth and humour this show has. I remember being kind of sceptical or judgemental seeing the first scenes back then - I thought it would be just a stupid show with heavy focus on topic of sex, but it turned out to be so much more, I connected to the show quickly and I love it since.

@watchthiswithjoeandkevin6

Жыл бұрын

It really was a wonderful 12 episodes.

BITTERSWEET! I'm happy for Fleabag.

@watchthiswithjoeandkevin6

Жыл бұрын

I agree. It may not have been the ending she wanted, but she is in such a great place when it ends.

I just binged all your reactions to this show in one evening. Thank you.

*_"Love isn't something that weak people do. Being a romantic takes a hell of a lot of hope. When you find somebody that you love, it feels like hope."_* Love that speech! How I see it, this season showed Fleabag learning to cope with trauma and opening herself up to feelings again, and it can as well be a final season, the story wouldn't suffer because of it, but I feel like there will be another season at some point, maybe not soon, as we still need to see Fleabag fully let go of her trauma over Boo and find her inner piece.

@watchthiswithjoeandkevin6

Жыл бұрын

Great observation! I loved how the end of the show, despite a sort of break-up, felt hopeful.

I kind of love the painting

Interesting that in one episode people think it's right and good when Claire leaves her relationship for the man she loves and also think it's wrong and bad for the priest to leave his relationship for the woman he loves. The only differences are religion and how we feel about the people they're in relationships with. It's complicated and it's messy and it's honest. I like that.

@JulietteReacts

Жыл бұрын

Totally, I think it’s interesting to consider. I have a lot of (negative) feelings about religion and would love if the priest could just quit the priesthood and be with Fleabag but I think they conveyed his demons pretty well. He definitely has inherited his parents alcoholism and inferred that things went bad for him in the past when it comes to relationships/before he was a priest. I feel with Claire, she has her own uptight, workaholic stuff to deal with but also from our glimpses of Klare it’s easy to see how she’d be happier with him. He seems like a puppy dog when compared to Martin’s sardonic drunkard vibe. The way Klare sincerely complimented her janky hair, the way her brain short-circuited to horny mode (“cockwork/let’s fuck like crazy”) at the work party when we know her own marriage has some level of sexual dysfunction. Without religion, the priest would still be an alcoholic and have whatever other demons he’s using religion and god to shield. It feels like a harder mountain to overcome, in my opinion. I think it absolutely could happen but it makes sense that at this point, whilst in the midst of addiction and suffering, he isn’t ready to make the leap. It’s his coping mechanism like hypersexuality was for Fleabag. Would be cool if Fleabag’s dad bought the priest a voucher for counselling tbh.

@watchthiswithjoeandkevin6

Жыл бұрын

Definitely. One of the things that makes this show so great are the lack of moral absolutes on display.

@user-ny2fk9gm1k

9 ай бұрын

No one thinks it’s wrong and bad for the priest though ? The priest made his own decision to stay devoted. Also people would be more split on Claire if she didn’t have an abusive alcoholic husband with a creepy kid

The “where’s Claire?” joke is so fucking stupid but so fucking funny.

@watchthiswithjoeandkevin6

Жыл бұрын

When it was the name of the song, it nearly killed us.

@JulietteReacts

Жыл бұрын

@@watchthiswithjoeandkevin6 I rewatched that but several times. Was delightful how much you guys laughed!

I feel like everyone watches season 1 and thinks this is great, how are there only 2 seasons and why is everyone telling me the next season is way better? How could they improve on this?? But by the end most everyone says that was a perfect ending and a near perfect season, I absolutely see why it ends here. I mean honestly, how does one 20ish minute comedy episode contain so many of these beautiful fantastic lines?: -I think you know how to love better than any of us. That's why you find it all so painful -The only person I'd run through an airport for is you -Love isn't something that weak people do" -When you find someone that you love, it feels like hope ^and that's just off the top of my head, Phoebe is a legend

@watchthiswithjoeandkevin6

Жыл бұрын

Seriously. The second season is marvelous.

You mentioned this show in your CXG videos multiple times comparing Rebecca to Fleabag so I had to watch it. Binged it in one night and it's absolutely amazing! Couldn't wait to check out your reaction videos. I'm still trying to gather my thoughts. It's only 12 episodes but so much was covered. And yes, at some moments Rebecca and Fleabag feel so similar it's uncanny.

An end to such a wonderfully funny and amazing season! Happy y’all got the chance to enjoy it with us! Also side note: it’s so awesome to see how many new Patreon members you have with each new upload! Happy for yall!

@watchthiswithjoeandkevin6

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! We will miss this show!

ahhhh love this show and so glad you enjoyed the ending as much as I hoped you would! You were right from the start that they shouldn't end up together bc it would be wrong for him, and I'm glad that PWB seemed to agree, but there was still love, a true, /agape/ love there between the Priest and Fleabag. It covered so poignantly he different kinds of love that people are capable of and how its tragedy when it doesn't all align so it can be communicated well, but it leaves on a hopeful note that in some moments we can still feel that it's there and that occasionally, to prove it's real, people will "run through the airport" to express love the way we always needed it be expressed, no matter how awkward and painful it is for them to express it that way. And also like the Dad and the Godmother, sometimes you just love awful people, but as demonstrated between Claire and Martin, sometimes awful people's redeeming qualities are not enough anymore, and we deserve new and better. The Priest's relationship with God and his hope in a higher power and purpose for his life didn't diminish the love he had for Fleabag and they walked away from each other both better for it just as Fleabag walks away from us better for our accompanying her and vice versa. UGHHHH just perfect. Cheers x

@watchthiswithjoeandkevin6

Жыл бұрын

Excellent observations! We really miss this show.

i love this ending. watching this show with yall was amazing

@watchthiswithjoeandkevin6

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! It was really a fun journey!

I think her earlier religious statement (where she was moved by spirit to talk) of ‘I don’t think I would be as much of a feminist if I had a bigger set of t!ts’ - was solved at the end of the series with the sculpture. It wasn’t a confession for the priest or about anyone else it was a statement completely about herself and her body. At that point in the show it is questionable as to why she would say that and why she would be thinking of that. As it was mentioned only during the last season and not at all during the second till this point. The sculpture is then brought up again at the awards for best female businesswoman where they discuss the female body being a person having parts being a woman and even name drop Carrie - unknowingly the stolen work of art is her mother. I think it was an interesting way to wrap up the series by stealing the sculpture of the woman who turns out to be her mother. Her love for her mother and the loss of her mother and transferring that love to boo. Her mother had an amazing figure as both her and Claire would often comment never describing her in detail besides ‘great rack’ and we never know what the mother looked like besides seeing this sculpture of her figure without arms legs or a face. The mother has a great rack because she was exactly that a mother who would have been pregnant and would have had kids and a mothers figure for doing that successfully. She had nice t!ts because the mother was their mom and she changed herself and her body to be a mother. Menopause may be the gift that never ends for the buisness woman but for mothers the change of their body for their kids is the gift that never ends - both are change and time and patience living with oneself and with others (Fleabag makes a comment early on about the sculptures a woman without arms or legs can’t do anything but roll around. - it was a jab made at the step mother, episodes before the sculpture identity reveal, and the step mother seemed to have a real negative reaction to the comment. For her she would have associated that sculpture immediately with the mother and with rolling in the grave. The step mother always demanding her body to put on a shelf and retire and to replace her role by interjection. She too imagines she will be a mother while already being a step mother to two children and be married to her darling who she can’t recall the name of etc etc she doesn’t want family or connection in the way they already wish to experience with her she’s standoffish and rejecting of them and demeaning to them. They’re not her kids unless they’re perfect models to look good for her and if she were to have kids they too would be mini models and have similarities and likenesses. She feels different to the family and wishes to keep herself as regarded as different and better she doesn’t want to be regarded as on their level let alone a family. Fleabag ends the show by taking her mother home happily in her arms. and it’s a golden sculpture which is expensive enough to need to talk to Marvin not go to a pawn shop it’s not priceless but it’s expensive and authenticated it’s a work of art a trophy she said she sometimes didn’t think she would be a feminist if she had better set of t!ts, and she left the show holding a golden trophy of a great set the set of the person she loved the most in the world. She reclaimed it and stole it. She was a feminist on her own she didn’t need the great set but she stole it anyway

Now you need to watch the one woman show version. It was great. It came before the series.

@watchthiswithjoeandkevin6

Жыл бұрын

We will definitely be checking that out.

Add Mr.Inbetween to your list. It's like if BB and Fleabag had a baby. It is 3 short seasons. Excellent series. Australian series so i recommend to watch with subtitles. Thanks for Fleabag!

@watchthiswithjoeandkevin6

Жыл бұрын

Of course! We have heard wonderful things about Mr. Inbetween!

Guys, really liked your reactions for this one. Maybe try "Queen's Gambit"?🎬

Great reaction! Love seeing your perspective on one of my favourite shows. That ending is gut wrenching! You guys need to watch “The Worst Person In The World” movie. It won a few awards and gives a very similar vibe to Fleabag imo.

@watchthiswithjoeandkevin6

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! We will check it out.

Loved rewatching this with you. It has never passed for me by the way. Beautiful finale to a masterpiece of a season. But the goodbye at the end is why we think it'll never come back. She doesn't need us any more. To me the love story between the sisters is just as satisfying as the one with Fleabag and the priest. And now she knows she deserves to be loved, you know she's going to be ok. Claire's 'The only person I'd run through an airport for is you' line and the whole of the priest's sermon on love are so well written and acted and have stayed with me all these years. Hope you like S3 of Ted Lasso, can't wait to for you to catch up!

@watchthiswithjoeandkevin6

Жыл бұрын

It was masterful. We will really miss this show.