Alert - Topshop are selling a Fleabag jumpsuit literally called Fleabag pic.twitter.
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On comedy-drama "Fleabag," The Priest noticed Fleabag breaking the fourth wall.
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge is nominated for her role as Fleabag in Fleabag.
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Finding the cheapest fleabag hostel is as easy as, well, booking the cheapest fleabag hostel.
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The central relationships are between women, whether Fleabag and her sister, Fleabag and her dead friend Boo or Fleabag and her smiling, icy stepmother, played by the always-brilliant Olivia Colman.
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When she's done unburdening herself, Priest orders Fleabag to "kneel," unleashing the second hottest line of Fleabag.
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But that didn't stop Fleabag (and viewers) from lusting after Scott's character of The Hot Priest in Fleabag.
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But then something magical happens: Fleabag and Fleabag both start to realize that the audience is a crutch.
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Here's an excerpt from my five-star review of Fleabag season two, which recently debuted on Amazon Video: Here's the problem with talking about Fleabag: A lot of what makes it work stems from the audacity of its presentation, from the sheer skill with which Phoebe Waller-Bridge (who wrote every episode and stars as Fleabag) flits between Fleabag in her reality and Fleabag looking through the camera and into ours.
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Here's the problem with talking about Fleabag: A lot of what makes it work stems from the audacity of its presentation, from the sheer skill with which Phoebe Waller-Bridge (who wrote every episode and stars as Fleabag) flits between Fleabag in her reality and Fleabag looking through the camera and into ours.
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Maisel Anna Chlumsky, Veep Sian Clifford, Fleabag Olivia Colman, Fleabag Betty Gilpin, Glow Sarah Goldberg, Barry Marin Hinkle, The Marvelous Mrs.
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Maisel Anna Chlumsky, Veep Sian Clifford, Fleabag Olivia Colman, Fleabag Betty Gilpin, GLOW Sarah Goldberg, Barry Marin Hinkle, The Marvelous Mrs.
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Maisel"*Anna Chlumsky, "Veep"Olivia Colman, "Fleabag"Sian Clifford, "Fleabag"Betty Gilpin, "GLOW"Sarah Goldberg, "Barry"Marin Hinkle, "The Marvelous Mrs.
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Fleabag effectively acknowledges us as her friends, and to think about how we might exist in the Fleabag universe is thoroughly destabilizing.
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While Fleabag and Hannah both get fucked up and fuck around, Fleabag would never blame society for her specifically female emotional traumas.
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Maisel" *WINNER Anna Chlumsky, "Veep" Sian Clifford, "Fleabag" Olivia Colman, "Fleabag " Betty Gilpin, "GLOW" Sarah Goldberg, "Barry" Marin Hinkle, "The Marvelous Mrs.
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Maisel"Anna Chlumsky, "Veep"Olivia Colman, "Fleabag" — WILL WINSian Clifford, "Fleabag" — SHOULD WINBetty Gilpin, "GLOW"Sarah Goldberg, "Barry"Marin Hinkle, "The Marvelous Mrs.
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To help answer these questions, I tracked down Pippa Woods, hair and makeup designer on Fleabag, and asked for her take on the Fleabag 'do.
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"Fleabag" The first season of "Fleabag", which aired in 2016, followed an unnamed potty-mouthed, promiscuous and self-destructive young woman navigating life in London.
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Maisel Tony Hale, Veep Sarah Goldberg, Barry Sian Clifford, Fleabag Olivia Colman, Fleabag Betty Gilpin, GLOW Kate McKinnon, Saturday Night Live Alex Borstein, The Marvelous Mrs.
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Maisel Tony Hale — Veep Sarah Goldberg — Barry Sian Clifford — Fleabag Olivia Colman — Fleabag Betty Gilpin — GLOW Kate McKinnon — Saturday Night Live Alex Borstein — The Marvelous Mrs.
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On Wednesday, Random House announced that Waller-Bridge has written a Fleabag book, called Fleabag: The Scriptures, and it's due out this fall, Entertainment Weekly reports.
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Maisel Tony Hale, Veep Sarah Goldberg, Barry Sian Clifford, Fleabag Olivia Colman, Fleabag Betty Gilpin, GLOW Kate McKinnon, Saturday Night Live Alex Borstein, The Marvelous Mrs.
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Maisel Alan Arkin, The Kominsky Method Michael Douglas, The Kominsky Method Bill Hader, Barry Andrew Scott, Fleabag WINNER: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag Alex Borstein, The Marvelous Mrs.
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Maisel **WINNER** Tony Hale, Veep Sarah Goldberg, Barry Sian Clifford, Fleabag Olivia Colman, Fleabag Betty Gilpin, GLOW Kate McKinnon, Saturday Night Live Alex Borstein, The Marvelous Mrs.
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Fiona Shaw, "Fleabag"Kristin Scott Thomas, "Fleabag"Sandra Oh, "Saturday Night Live"Emma Thompson, "Saturday Night Live"Maya Rudolph, "The Good Place"*Jane Lynch, "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"*
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The Hot Priest from Fleabag Not a pope but still relevant, the Hot Priest (played by Andrew Scott) is a main character in the second season of Fleabag.
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Worst of all, Claire tells Fleabag that she believes the story she's been told by Martin: That Fleabag kissed him at Claire's birthday party, not the other way around.
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"Fleabag" and the "Fleabag"-related hype is nevertheless interesting for sociological reasons: it demonstrates the annexation of yet another area of British life by the self-worshipping upper-middle classes.
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Maisel Kate McKinnon in Saturday Night Live Olivia Colman in Fleabag Sarah Goldberg in Barry Sian Clifford in Fleabag Betty Gilpin in GLOW Alex Borstein in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
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In the first season of the British tragicomedy Fleabag, Fleabag (show creator and writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge) runs every day in the graveyard where her mother and best friend are buried.
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During the confrontation between Claire and Fleabag at the Sexhibition party, Claire alludes to a fact that is established firmly via flashbacks: Fleabag is the one who slept with Boo's boyfriend.
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Fleabag is airing — in its hopeful entirety — on Amazon.
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The Amazon honcho -- whose shows "Fleabag" and 'Marvelous Mrs.
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Maisel"Kirsten Dunst, "On Becoming a God in Central Florida"Natasha Lyonne, "Russian Doll"Phoebe Waller-Bridge, "Fleabag"Who will win/should win: Again, Phoebe Waller-Bridge is a powerhouse on "Fleabag.
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The publisher also released a tiny excerpt from Fleabag: The Scriptures, describing the last shot of the show's pilot, per EW: "Fleabag: The Scriptures showcases all we've loved about Fleabag, but also proves that what we've seen on our screens is only the tip of the iceberg," Sceptre Books head Emma Herdman said in a statement.
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She's nominated for the first episode of the second season of Fleabag, in which her character (also called Fleabag) must sit through a horrendously awkward family dinner with a hot, swear-y priest.
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Naturally, Fleabag goes exploring to find out why he's yelling.
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Fleabag season one is now available to stream on Amazon.
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In the same vein, where were the noms for Fleabag?
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Amazon's "Fleabag" and Hulu's "Handmaid's Tale" received 11 nominations apiece.
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If any award doesn't go to Fleabag, it doesn't matter.
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"Fleabag" is a British comedy that is streaming on Amazon.
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Fleabag and Hot Priest exchange lingering glances across the table.
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Also, watch "Fleabag," a British import that's streaming on Amazon.
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In season two, Fleabag is actively trying to do better.
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Feel Good has earned comparisons to Fleabag in some quarters.
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But I am much closer to Hannah Horvath than Fleabag.
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Fleabag upset the competition by beating both The Marvelous Mrs.
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While you were busy watching Fleabag and The Marvelous Mrs.
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Maisel nor Veep could vanquish Fleabag in several comedy categories.
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Correction: Fleabag won two Creative Arts Emmys, not just one.
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"Women are born with pain built in," Belinda tells Fleabag.
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It's official, Fleabag and Hot Priest now know each other biblically.
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There were the usual snubs (Love & Friendship's Kate Beckinsale, Fleabag, etc.).
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I stumbled into "Fleabag" on Amazon in its first season — wow.
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But Fleabag gives that somewhat played out premise a fresh twist.
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With Fleabag, it comes through most clearly with Waller-Bridge's character.
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Just as Fleabag could stare into the camera and never quite
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But wishing for more Fleabag would be selfish on my part.
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Maisel (the most-nominated comedy, with 220 nominations) and Fleabag (217).
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" Waller-Bridge said "Fleabag" was "never an attack on the church.
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Fleabag was up against, Barry, The Good Place, The Marvelous Mrs.
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The second season of "Fleabag" was co-produced by Amazon Studios.
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"Fleabag" and "Succession" each won two awards in the television categories.
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A lot of people make the assumption that Fleabag is autobiographical.
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But worry not, everybody—a Fleabag book is on the way.
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On the TV side, The Crown, Succession, Fleabag, The Marvelous Mrs.
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Maisel and Fleabag taking home some of the night's biggest honors.
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Meanwhile, Amazon's Fleabag won two awards and Hulu's Ramy won one.
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Fleabag and her sister Claire (Sian Clifford) are dealing with their grief differently; Fleabag dates a lot of different men and presides halfheartedly over her cafe, which is home to a resident guinea pig named Hilary.
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Watch Fleabag if you like: Killing Eve, stage plays, My So-Called Life Where to watch: Both seasons of Fleabag (which Waller-Bridge has said will not continue past season two) are available on Amazon Video.
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She was up against her Maisel costar Marin Hinkle, Sarah Goldberg for Barry, Sian Clifford for Fleabag, Olivia Colman for Fleabag, Betty Gilpin for GLOW, Kate McKinnon for Saturday Night Live and Anna Chlumsky for Veep.
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We learn Fleabag leans queer herself — when Belinda (Kristin Scott Thomas) asks if Fleabag is a lesbian, she tells her "not strictly" — and that she's seeking guidance from people who've lived through more shit than she has.
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Of course, Fleabag pushes Priest away, uncomfortable over all the emotional intimacy.
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Series 2 of Fleabag will debut on Amazon Prime Video in 2019.
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The second season of "Fleabag" is being released on the BBC now.
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Thus, Fleabag ends its masterly run at 12 episodes and two seasons.
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And, good lord, when the Priest noticed Fleabag breaking the fourth wall?
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With a central character this profane, "Fleabag" is not to everyone's taste.
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Below, eight presents for Fleabag lovers that aren't an adorable guinea pig.
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Season 1 of Fleabag is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.
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"Fleabag" connections abound, but the series and its creator resist easy comparison.
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"Fleabag" star Phoebe Waller-Bridge chose a classic dress with sparkling details.
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Amazon Prime Video's "Fleabag" won best comedy series and other major awards.
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SURPRISE — "Fleabag" won best comedy, defeating "Veep" and "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel."
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SURPRISE — Phoebe Waller-Bridge won best actress in a comedy for "Fleabag."
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Still, with "Mouche," France has an authentic Fleabag to call its own.
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"Fleabag" cleverly holds up a mirror to the way we watch now.
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He's handsome, unpious and as ribaldly earnest as Fleabag is raunchily sarcastic.
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We see Fleabag vulnerable and — finally, painfully — in touch with her emotions.
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Maisel, Killing Eve, and Fleabag demonstrated they were up to the task.
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Downtown is rife with greasy diners, fleabag hotels and steamy dive bars.
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Correction: Waller-Bridge performed her play Fleabag at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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"Fleabag", co-produced by Amazon, bagged the Emmy for best comedy series.
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"Run" is a new comedy series from "Fleabag" creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
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At least it'll be here sooner than the third season of Fleabag.
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Have you seen the "hot priest" scenes from season two of "Fleabag"?
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Would a show like Fleabag ever have won under the old system?
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FLEABAG is a single word, and so it can't be arbitrarily dissected.
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In 2014, Phoebe Waller-Bridge also received a special commendation, for "Fleabag."
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After "Fleabag," Ms. Waller-Bridge got loads of those kinds of offers.
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The more Fleabag and the Priest connect (with hints of romantic tension, despite the whole vow of chastity thing, and Fleabag starting to open herself up to something religious in nature, despite the whole deep-seated cynicism thing).
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"Fleabag" is especially attuned to the voices of women, even bit characters like a charismatic businesswoman played by Kristin Scott-Thomas, who delivers what could be the "Fleabag" manifesto: "Women are born with pain built-in," she says.
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Maisel Sandra Oh, Saturday Night Live Maya Rudolph, The Good Place Kristin Scott Thomas, Fleabag Fiona Shaw, Fleabag Emma Thompson, Saturday Night Live Matt Damon, Saturday Night Live Robert De Niro, Saturday Night Live Luke Kirby, The Marvelous Mrs.
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Maisel Sandra Oh, Saturday Night Live Maya Rudolph, The Good Place Kristin Scott Thomas, Fleabag Fiona Shaw, Fleabag Emma Thompson, Saturday Night Live Matt Damon, Saturday Night Live Robert de Niro, Saturday Night Live Luke Kirby, The Marvelous Mrs.
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Viewers want to know what happened, what pushed Fleabag into despair (and they very well might guess), but they also know that the show will only reveal what's happening when Fleabag is good and ready to reveal her past.
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I never made it to the play "Fleabag" in London before there was a TV show "Fleabag" on Amazon, so it's very exciting to learn that Phoebe Waller-Bridge's one-person show is coming to New York next year.
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R. has rehearsal tonight, so I start Fleabag and immediately binge three episodes.
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Fleabag is both joyous and heartbreaking for the way it's mined those truths.
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There may be another kind of fleabag aboard the Millennium Falcon next year.
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British TV shows Crashing and Fleabag, both helmed by comedian Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
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In Fleabag, the titular character constantly is aware that the camera is present.
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Fleabag was a dubious narrator, a fabulist with delusions of grandeur and a
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When we meet Fleabag in the second season, she is still acting out.
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Fleabag definitely does bad things—did you set out to make her "unlikable"?
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Fleabag chose a life of casual sex, he chose a life of celibacy.
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My show is very different [to Fleabag] but hopefully it'll bring you something.
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Fleabag (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) breaks the fourth wall in Season 21, Episode 213.
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Clifford was later seen walking with the cast of Fleabag looking much better.
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" Amazon Prime received nominations for shows like "Fleabag" and "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
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The big television winners, "Succession" and "Fleabag," are terrific shows, but hardly blockbusters.
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Here are 10 shows to watch if you&aposre a fan of "Fleabag."
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It would be hard to find a more diametrically opposed show to Fleabag.
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Who should win: Out of the five nominations, "Fleabag" is the most-deserving.
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And it boasted the night's winningest show with Fleabag, which won four awards.
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Maisel at one time or another, but this year, they loved Fleabag more.
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" Similar to the Emmy Awards in September, "Barry," "Fleabag" and "The Marvelous Mrs.
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Released on Amazon last month after airing on BBC Three in the UK over the summer, Fleabag concerns the impending emotional breakdown of its sex-obsessed protagonist, who has a distinctive lipstick and haircut but is known only as Fleabag.
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Now, following Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag winning Emmys for doing just that, the Amazon series' very wise producers (Jack and Harry Williams and Sarah Hammond) are back with a show that could fill the Fleabag-shaped hole in our hearts.
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Fleabag: Series Finale (Season 2, Episode 6) First aired: April 8, 25 This season, it was surprisingly lovely to see that Fleabag (creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge) — she of the endless bad hookups and other horrible decisions — actually has her shit together.
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"For the first time, Fleabag: The Scriptures brings together the complete filming scripts of Fleabag series one and two, annotated with never-before-seen stage directions, as well as brand new writing from Phoebe Waller-Bridge," the book's synopsis reads.
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So when BBC and Amazon's Fleabag — a show about a woman named Fleabag, who is, like me, in her 30s, and who keeps breaking the fourth wall to talk to the audience, sometimes while she's in the middle of a conversation with somebody on her plane of reality — released a second season that directly addressed this same tendency within Fleabag herself, I almost couldn't look right at it.
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Back in April, when Fleabag returned in the U.K., Marks & Spencer revealed to RadioTimes.
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Waller-Bridge had already made a fan of me with her Amazon series Fleabag.
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You may know Waller-Bridge from her hit sitcom Fleabag, available on Amazon Prime.
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Glover told Refinery29UK that he instructed the writing staff of Atlanta to watch Fleabag.
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The main contenders: Insecure, One Day At A Time, Fleabag, and even ABC's Speechless.
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She was closely followed, for my money, by Phoebe Waller-Bridge of Amazon's Fleabag.
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On Fleabag, too, there's a major conflict between the show itself and the audience.
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"Back to Life" resists some of the easy "Fleabag" comparisons drawn in the media.
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Asked my mother if I should buy the Fleabag jumpsuit, got absolutely roasted pic.twitter.
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Fleabag takes a sudden interest in the Holy Bible, reading it in the bathtub.
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Watch: Season 2 of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's horribly funny show "Fleabag" returns on Friday.
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Most pearl-clutching of all is the inclusion of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's dramedy Fleabag.
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So she started writing her own short plays, including an early version of "Fleabag."
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"Working with the team on 'Fleabag' was the creative partnership dreams are made of."
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The creator and star of "Fleabag" had a fashion moment in her tweed suit.
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge&aposs tragicomedy "Fleabag" was one of the biggest shows of 2019.
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Amazon Prime's "Fleabag" is an unparalleled work of writing that's both hilarious and heartbreaking.
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The Grammy winner joins "Fleabag" star Phoebe Waller-Bridge on the weekly comedy mainstay.
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Maisel, and newcomer series for Amazon Prime Video (through a partnership with BBC), Fleabag.
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Maisel and turned a one-woman show into an Emmy-winning powerhouse with Fleabag.
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That sequence is "Fleabag" in a nutshell: irreverent, lewd and upfront to a fault.
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And what of "Fleabag," which ran for six episodes and could stand as is?
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"Fleabag" is the kind of early career success that risks swallowing its creator whole.
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Watching her work is a basic reason to check out Fleabag: Waller-Bridge's skill at playing with the relationship between Fleabag and viewers is notable on a sheer level of being a virtuoso performance by an actor at the top of her game.
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And, sure, the Priest's ability to sense when Fleabag is disassociating and breaking the fourth wall is an absolutely brilliant piece of season two, but it's only one of the things that makes season two of Fleabag some of the best TV ever.
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Everything is so good, Fleabag, for once, tilts the camera away from the sex scene.
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Fleabag, played by Waller-Bridge, has a totally unique (though hetero) relationship with her sexuality.
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Loving "Fleabag" means you'll buy your next toaster from Amazon, not Target or Williams-Sonoma.
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The only actress who eclipsed her last year was Phoebe Waller-Bridge of Amazon's Fleabag.
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It will physically ache to invest in this story, as both we and Fleabag know.
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And just like in Fleabag, it's Waller-Bridge's facial expressions that really make it glorious.
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Kristin Scott Thomas is nominated for outstanding guest actress in a comedy series for 'Fleabag.'
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"Fleabag" is only six episodes (available only on Amazon Prime), and I watched again immediately.
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Scott was inescapable this year after the critically adored second season of "Fleabag" hit Amazon.
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The camera had been a crutch for Fleabag, her way of disconnecting from her surroundings.
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"Fleabag" won the awards for best comedy series, actress in a comedy series, and more.
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We eat and catch up, then I watch two more episodes of Fleabag and shower.
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On the streaming front, Netflix offered The Crown, while Amazon had One Mississippi and Fleabag.
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And Fleabag, true to form, can't help but be drawn to someone so wildly inappropriate.
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It's fine for Fleabag to confide to us, you eventually realize; we'll never talk back.
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No company objects when you invite your friends over to watch "Fleabag" at your house.
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Colin Firth makes an appearance, as does Andrew Scott of Fleabag fame, and Mark Strong.
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Fleabag may be over, but its hugely successful awards show run still has another stop.
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Fleabag, which concluded its series last year with its second season, should have won instead.
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And it turns out that "Fleabag" is a defense of the millennial generation, after all.
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These episodes of "Big Mouth" and "Pen15" episodes, and "Fleabag," were all written by women.
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"Fleabag" is her and a bar stool, on which she spends most of the show.
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When it comes to controlling information, Fleabag succeeds at this kind of storytelling trickery where Westworld frequently failed — on Fleabag, the choice to keep certain dark secrets is deeply rooted in character, while on Westworld it's mostly been made to toy with the audience's expectations.
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I watched all of [Amazon's] Fleabag on my phone and iPad, and I fucking loved it.
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This is how Fleabag finds herself unraveling all of her hidden sins in Priest's confessional booth.
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Of course, sometimes you just want to watch Fleabag and get free shipping on discounted socks.
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The thing about The Hot Priest is that he completely sees the flawed and rough Fleabag.
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge's pitch-black comedy, Fleabag, is easily the greatest show on TV this year.
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The newest writer to join the screenwriting team is Fleabag creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
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A couple of things about "Fleabag," Phoebe Waller-Bridge's new series available on Friday on Amazon.
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Sian Clifford was nominated for outstanding supporting actress in a comedy for her role on "Fleabag."
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Fiona Shaw was nominated for outstanding guest actress in a comedy for her role on "Fleabag."
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But season 3, starring "Fleabag" actress Olivia Colman as the queen, will premiere on November 17.
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From HBO's hit "Chernobyl" to the hilarious "Fleabag," 2019 delivered well-reviewed shows from the start.
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If Fleabag were played by a more conventional actress, her spiral might feel cloying or gimmicky.
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Fleabag asks Martin to sell it, but he gives it to Claire for her birthday instead.
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The events of that day are touched on in the second season of "Fleabag," but differently.
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But even in the more overtly comic "Fleabag," she carries a stiletto in her pen hand.
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Alongside meta-comedies like Fleabag, it swiftly became TV's most self-defined and self-propelled show.
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Similar to the Emmy Awards, "Fleabag" and "Chernobyl" dominated the television awards portion of the ceremony.
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The return of Hilary is just one of many, many reasons we loved Fleabag Season 2.
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The Golden Globes: "Fleabag" and "1917," Sam Mendes's World War I epic, were among the winners.
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For $1.99, you have access to everything from The Handmaid's Tale to Killing Eve to Fleabag.
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Crucially, Fleabag is also mourning a lost friend, Boo, who keeps reappearing in lovely, delicate flashbacks.
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I would be remiss not to recognize, say, Amazon Prime Video's Fleabag or Netflix's Russian Doll.
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After Fleabag secretly returns the piece to the studio — Godmother can't prove Fleabag took it, but she clearly suspects her — Claire steals it back again, mainly because Colman's character is vicious to the sisters at a lunch meant to celebrate the memory of their late mother.
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Here's some good news to start your weekend off right: Fleabag has been renewed for season 2.
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Fleabag season 2 hits Amazon, and you'll wonder if you want to have sex with a priest.
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After lighting up British television, Fleabag season 2 has finally arrived in America thanks to Amazon Prime.
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By "Episode 4," he hears Fleabag actually mutter "His beautiful neck," and calls her out on it.
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That disarming fake smile, persistently bitter conversation and sheer audacity came to form her villain in Fleabag.
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And all the while, Fleabag — who would rather make jokes than talk about her grief — is hilarious.
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But Fleabag is so wonderfully messy, funny, and deeply human that these seemingly chaotic collisions feel natural.
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Paloma's scenes were developed by Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge, requested by Craig to join the project.
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Fleabag writer and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge and her husband are splitting up, a source tells PEOPLE.
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For Fleabag fans who have seen the first season, the hour-long play should be pretty familiar.
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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Fleabag are perhaps its closest streaming relatives, with similarly experimental premises and styles.
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She is nominated twice this year, once for her lead role on "Fleabag" and another for writing.
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Kneel. With just that one word Fleabag Season 2 became an honest-to-goodness cross-Atlantic hit.
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If you've not yet watched the final episode of Fleabag Season 2, then be warned — spoilers abound.
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Many people who have consumed the second season of Fleabag on Amazon were moved to their cores.
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Olivia Colman was also nominated for outstanding supporting actress in a comedy for her role on "Fleabag."
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In the final episode, Fleabag turns to the camera, and she asks it not to follow her.
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Fleabag premiered while she was doing a one-woman stage version of the show in New York.
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But both Fleabag (11 nominations) and Russian Doll (13) saw double-digit totals on the Comedy side.
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Watch Shrill if you like: Better Things, Fleabag, Enlightened Where to watch: Shrill is streaming on Hulu.
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But Fleabag seems to have been behaving in much the same manner long before that act occurred.
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In contrast, "Fleabag" keeps all contradictory shards and shades of feeling in play at the same time.
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Not all successful British shows in the U.S. focus on the elite (Hello, "Fleabag" and "Chewing Gum").
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"I thought it was the thing that would surprise and fascinate Fleabag the most," Waller-Bridge said.
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But there's a symbolic value to the what happened: She may die in a fleabag hotel, too.
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Few scenes in television, let alone entire seasons, compare to the sheer brilliance of Fleabag Season 2.
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"If you don't get that joke, please watch Season 1 of Fleabag really really quickly!" she added.
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There's a reason why the priest in Fleabag is referred to by fans as the Hot Priest.
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The "Maisel" cast seemed flummoxed taking the stage: "I voted for 'Fleabag,'" said the actress Alex Borstein.
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Maisel" as well as actor Tony Shalhoub, and added Phoebe Waller-Bridge for the Emmy-winning "Fleabag.
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You see, unlike other shows, Fleabag breaks the fourth wall and talks directly to us, her audience.
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She created, wrote, and starred in the comedy-drama "Fleabag," whose first season aired on BBC Three.
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The "Fleabag" star arrived on the red carpet in a cream tuxedo jacket and matching bow tie.
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From "Sherlock" to "Fleabag" to "The Crown," British performances have set the entertainment bar across the globe.
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Andrew Scott (aka hot priest of Fleabag) plays Tobin, an Irish and curmudgeonly version of Dan Savage.
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Fleabag isn't just good writing and storytelling — it's a show that resonates and connects with its audience.
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Whereas Fleabag is a slovenly failure, Claire is an uptight martyred corporate success, married, with a stepson.
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Alan Arkin, "The Kominsky Method"Kieran Culkin, "Succession"Andrew Scott, "Fleabag"Stellan Skarsgård, "Chernobyl"Henry Winkler, "Barry"
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Still, she admitted that she's still choosing to say goodbye to her hit Amazon/BBC series, Fleabag.
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New seasons of Waller-Bridge's shows "Fleabag" and "Killing Eve" (on BBC and Amazon, respectively) are coming.
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We're reunited with Fleabag one year on from where the first series left off – she has been rejected by her entire family, we finally understand what really happened with her best mate Boo, and Fleabag comes a bit too close to throwing herself in front of a car.
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During the 2019 Emmy Awards, Phoebe Waller-Bridge took home three awards for her series, Fleabag — best writing for a comedy series, best actress in a comedy series and best comedy series for Fleabag — and she was quick to put one of the golden statuettes to (interesting) use.
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Unlike Fleabag, however, Killing Eve is coming back for a third season, which means it's not really goodbye.
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In one episode, Fleabag and her sister attend an all-female silent retreat in a grand country house.
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Kristin Scott Thomas was also nominated for outstanding guest actress in a comedy for her role on "Fleabag."
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"Fleabag" fans went wild for Thomas as Belinda, who gave a powerful monologue about womanhood on season two.
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Her performance on "Fleabag" was the best work we've seen all year and should be recognized as such.
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"Prime Video dominated the comedy category, including a best comedy series win for "Fleabag," beating Netflix's "Russian Doll.
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Little wonder that Fleabag, who jerks off to an Obama speech about democracy, is suckered by the priest.
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Watch: Season 2 of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's horribly funny show "Fleabag" returns on Amazon Prime Video on Friday.
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As the hysteria over Fleabag season 2 proved, the most affecting depictions of love are often the messiest.
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But given that she herself created and wrote Fleabag, I'm pretty sure we can guess how she feels.
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Perhaps because Fleabag never whines or feels sorry for herself, only mocks herself from afar, we love her.
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This is the second Emmy win for Waller-Bridge, who is the creator, writer and star of Fleabag.
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Variety reported that Waller-Bridge told reporters backstage that she got the idea from her "Fleabag" co-workers.
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Those kinds of comments by men in a public forum are exactly why we need shows like Fleabag.
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Fleabag fans are still reeling from the departure of their much beloved eponymous heroine from the TV screens.
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Future BMW and Fiat Chrysler drivers may find themselves streaming Fleabag from their dashboard screens later this year.
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Netflix bid on the rights to the hit comedy series "Fleabag," but lost out to Amazon, he added.
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LONDON — Within five minutes of the first episode of "Fleabag," Phoebe Waller-Bridge is masturbating over President Obama.
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When viewers learned that the black jumpsuit she wears in the first episode of season two was available online for only $50, it sold out in a day; a search for "Fleabag jumpsuit" on Twitter pulls up an army of Fleabag clones, clad neck-to-toe in sleek black polyester.
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Craig told the interviewer Jonathan Dean that he was behind the "Fleabag" creator's hiring for the Bond movie: "I had my eye on her ever since the first 'Fleabag' [TV series], and then I saw 'Killing Eve' and what she did with that and just wanted her voice," he said.
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It is in this episode that hot priest first offers Fleabag a can of the cocktail inside his church.
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It's the perfect analogy for how Fleabag deals with her grief: Yes, she's mourning, but she keeps moving forward.
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It also proves Priest is the only person on this show who actually sees Fleabag for who she is.
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Killing Eve creator and writer and Fleabag star Phoebe Waller-Bridge is serving as one of the film's screenwriters.
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Fleabag has a more explicitly queer dalliance earlier in the season, with Belinda, a beautiful 58-year-old businesswoman.
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Compared with Wood's massive canvas, Waller-Bridge's relatively smaller-scale work in Fleabag could seem very small and insular.
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"Fleabag" creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge signed an overall deal with Amazon Studios, according to Variety and Deadline.
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"Barry" (HBO)*"Fleabag" (Prime Video)*"Russian Doll" (Netflix)"Schitt's Creek" (Pop TV)"The Good Place" (NBC)The Marvelous Mrs.
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I see [Fleabag] as a person whose mood changes and is defined by her pain, not necessarily her actions.
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Breaking the fourth wall can be a crutch, but in "Fleabag" the device shows as much as it tells.
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Fleabag speaks directly to the audience between scenes, twisting a traditional voiceover to make it more intimate, more conspiratorial.
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" Her boyfriend is tearful, but Fleabag turns to the camera with a half-smile and tells us, "It will.
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Fletcher," while Collette's supporting-actress nomination prevented Olivia Colman of "The Crown" from snagging a second nod for "Fleabag.
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"Waller-Bridge urged viewers who might not have understood the reference to closely watch the first season of "Fleabag.
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"Fleabag" started as a one-woman show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, an arts festival in Scotland, in 2013.
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It follows a woman in her 20s, known only as Fleabag, who lives in London and runs a café.
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Actor and writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge poses with her Emmys for Fleabag during the 71st Emmy Awards, Sept. 22.
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The nature of streaming means that "Fleabag" is still available to new and returning viewers on Amazon Prime Video.
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The supporting characters are still around, and they have their moments (a particularly funny scene happens when Fleabag's sister, Claire [Sian Clifford], asks her to cater a posh corporate event, and Fleabag accidentally shatters a priceless award), but the real meat of the show is the tango between Fleabag and The Priest.
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In the first episode of Amazon's upcoming comedy Fleabag, the main character's boyfriend dumps her, then immediately starts back-pedaling.
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When her uptight sister Clare tells her that "it's really inappropriate to jog around a graveyard," Fleabag merely looks bemused.
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Much of Fleabag focuses on how she and her brittle older sister, Claire (Sian Clifford), grapple with their mother's death.
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Fleabag speaks directly to the audience in between scenes, twisting a traditional voiceover to make it more intimate, more conspiratorial.
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Emmy voters showered Fleabag with nominations — even Fiona Shaw earned a nom for her SINGLE scene appearance as Fleabag's therapist.
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Anyone who's seen Phoebe Waller-Bridge's dark comedy show Fleabag knows that the titular character will say pretty much anything.
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The most difficult task, however, was figuring out what the relationship between the audience and Fleabag was going to be.
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The series begins with Fleabag arousing herself to a video of President Obama and ends in the key of grief.
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" Just seconds before, Fleabag had uttered three very different words to the man who'll henceforth be known as "hot priest.
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Andrew Scott set the world on fire this year with his role as the so-called "Hot Priest" in "Fleabag."
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge was the star of the Primetime Emmys with three wins for her hit Amazon comedy series "Fleabag."
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But when you meet somebody who does ... Fleabag has turned to us so often because we have to watch her.
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Now that Fleabag has recognized us for the crutch we are, she can hopefully resume her life as it was.
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The essence of Fleabag lies in this combination of messy, but still put together; emotionally raw, yet confident and composed.
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Flashbacks reveal Fleabag opened the cafe with her best friend, Boo (Jenny Rainsford), who recently died after walking into traffic.
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This is probably it for Fleabag, but it's not it for Waller-Bridge, who is now the toast of Hollywood.
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Amazon and Hulu each took home a pair of awards, notably a win by "Fleabag" (Amazon) for best TV comedy.
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It's hard to argue with Phoebe Waller Bridge's dump truck full of Emmys for Fleabag Season 2, so we won't.
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On BBC's "Fleabag," Phoebe Waller-Bridge's character is known for breaking the fourth wall and speaking directly to the audience.
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In Season 2, Waller-Bridge's Fleabag score used choral voices that'll give you wartime flashbacks to your Hot Priest thirst.
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"Fleabag" creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge announced an auction for the couture suit she wore to the Golden Globes.
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Fleabag was the biggest success story of the night, taking home Outstanding Comedy Series, Lead Actress, Writing, and Directing gold.
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Fleabag may be over, but its creator, Killing Eve mastermind Phoebe Waller-Bridge, has officially been crowned television's next visionary.
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Amazon Studios' Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Fleabag took home multiple awards, following the show's dominance at last year's Emmy Awards.
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"Fleabag" dominated the 2019 Emmy Awards, taking home six Emmys, including best comedy and best directing for a comedy series.
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Fleabag creator, writer, and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge has signed an exclusive overall deal with Amazon Prime Video, Deadline reports.
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Fleabag won a number of awards, including for Best Comedy and Best Actress in a Comedy for Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
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"Dead to Me" (Netflix)"The Boys" (Amazon Prime Video)"Rick and Morty" (Adult Swim)"Victorious" (Nickelodeon)"Fleabag" (Amazon Prime Video)
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And really, after all, I'm just a fleabag with a throbbing head and misplaced sense of guilt just like you.
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Both lovers in Fleabag make fun of the Daddyesque connotations that come along with lusting after a man of the church.
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But Fleabag — whom he loves, but whom he can't choose in lieu of that forever — has the privilege of her freedom.
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Silicon Valley won over FX's Atlanta, Amazon's Fleabag, ABC's Black-ish, ABC's Modern Family, Netflix's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and HBO's Veep.
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It owes to the thinking that there is a little Fleabag in all of us, and I think there really is.
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Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke gushed over the idea of more Fleabag at the Television Critics Association on Saturday, Deadline reports.
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Here's more proof that everything Fleabag and Killing Eve creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge does is both inherently hilarious and deeply relatable.
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"Fleabag may seem oversexed, emotionally unfiltered and self-obsessed, but that's just the tip of the iceberg," the show's synopsis reads.
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NEW YORK — Phoebe Waller-Bridge's new show Fleabag is being described as everything from "millennial Bridget Jones" to British Broad City.
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Fleabag is based on a pretty typical comedy conceit, one that's been exhausted on shows like Modern Family and The Office.
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They also share the prolific executive producers Harry and Jack Williams (known for "Fleabag" but mostly responsible for grim crime series).
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If British comedies about miserable people attempting to sort out their lives is your thing, let me point you to Fleabag.
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But comparisons to "Fleabag," especially given the several producers it shares (the executive producer Sarah Hammond is a third), seemed inevitable.
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Although she's only on "Fleabag" for about 10 minutes, Shaw made a big impression in her hilarious scene as Fleabag's counselor.
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Scott Thomas continued her career as an accomplished actress after the film, and even had a cameo on Amazon's show "Fleabag."
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Though the "Fleabag" actress' white gown was rather simple in style, Clifford's fanned sleeves with silver designs made her look pop.
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But even as Fleabag opens up to The Priest, she still cannot stop talking directly to the camera, her safety blanket.
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This casting decision was made by Killing Eve's writer and producer, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who previously created and starred in Fleabag.
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They were associated with noir midcentury urban life, with fleabag hotels and S.R.O.s, with single men leading marginal, vaguely seedy lives.
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Onstage, "Fleabag" throbs with a concentrated, combustible vitality that a camera is incapable of capturing, even with pore-probing close-ups.
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"Fleabag" actually began as a one-woman live show that lit up the Edinburgh Fringe festival in 2013, and starting Feb.
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In the very first episode of Fleabag, Waller-Bridge's character is watching the president give a speech about the Arab Spring.
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Fleabag describes herself as a rotting, insect-infested pile of trash, and we applaud, smug in our new understanding of womanhood.
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She's also executive producing alongside writer Vicky Jones, who was script editor for both Fleabag and Waller-Bridge's previous series, Crashing.
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"It [Fleabag] was really about a woman who felt she was really valued primarily by her sexual desirability," said Waller-Bridge.
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WINNER: Succession Big Little Lies The Crown Killing Eve The Morning Show WINNER: Fleabag Barry The Kominsky Method The Marvelous Mrs.
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On the 71st Emmy Awards which just concluded recently, Game of Thrones was the big win, Fleabag was also under spotlight.
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In the opening scene of the latest series, Fleabag is delighted to be handed a slim envelope as a birthday present.
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In addition to her nomination for best actress, Waller-Bridge's "Fleabag" is also nominated for best comedy or musical TV series.
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For Amazon, betting on Fleabag early — and giving Waller-Bridge the creative freedom to realize it — seems to have paid off.
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Fleabag compulsively turns every situation sexual, pulling off her sweater semi-accidentally during a job interview or fondling a random cucumber.
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The Emmy winner Phoebe Waller-Bridge ("Fleabag") wrote the script with the director Cary Joji Fukunaga, Neal Purvis, and Robert Wade.
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge is nominated for best performance by an actress in a TV musical or comedy TV series for "Fleabag."
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Fan-favorite shows like HBO&aposs "Succession," Amazon Prime Video&aposs "Fleabag," and HBO&aposs "Chernobyl" earned nods in major categories.
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In the end, it was bested by "Fleabag", which had its premiere in 2016 (its creator, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, is pictured).
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Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Killing Eve flipped spy cat-and-mouse thrillers—and lesbian-adjacent psychodrama tropes—completely upside down.
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Fleabag, for example, had a gradual movement from Intimate-Niche to Social-Niche to Social-Mass — the hot-priest-meme stage.
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In the meantime, Phoebe Waller-Bridge's surprise Fleabag book is set to hit shelves this fall, so that's something, at least.
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If there's a modest but clean guesthouse for $50 per night, I'll take that over the fleabag place that costs $30.
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Talking to the camera is a thing Fleabag does, and it's a thing the show does, so of course she's going to keep doing it, offering witty, snide asides that elicit some great laughs in the middle of all the farce (and given that this is a season where Fleabag falls for a Catholic priest, farce abounds).
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At the 2019 Emmy Awards on Sunday, the British actress, writer and producer took home the award for best writing for a comedy series and best actress for Fleabag, her hit Amazon/BBC series about the sexual misadventures of a woman known only as Fleabag, originally based on her 2013 one-woman stage play of the same name.
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"I asked myself if Fleabag has more to say and frankly she hasn't shut up since," Waller-Bridge said in a statement.
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Joining the already brilliant Fleabag cast (see: Olivia Colman, Sian Clifford, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge herself) are two of our favorite actresses.
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We catch up with our unnamed heroine Fleabag (writer/creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge) over a year after the events of Season 1.
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But at least we can catch the one-woman play that inspired Fleabag when it hits theaters this fall, so that's something.
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A show that comes to mind that's a great example of that is Fleabag, which I just watched and loved so much.
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Maisel, Julia Louis-Dreyfus for Veep, Natasha Lyonne for Russian Doll, Phoebe Waller-Bridge for Fleabag and Catherine O'Hara for Schitt's Creek.
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" She is also set to star in thriller "Them That Follow" and reprise her role in the BBC's British comedy show, "Fleabag.
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Though still unflinching and confessional in its depiction of social and sexual life, the storyline of "Fleabag" does not revolve around men.
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The fact that her character, Fleabag, is moved to confess to a priest is a kind of meta-joke for the audience.
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Fleabag comes to her defense, ranting to the stylist about how "hair is everything," in one of the season's most quotable scenes.
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Fleabag segues with canny purposefulness among earnest wistfulness and dismissive flippancy, scorching pain and echoing, hollow silence, giving equal weight to each.
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A good bit of the season revolves around a small statue of a woman's torso that Fleabag stole from Godmother's home studio.
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"I will miss her, but I hope there will always be a little bit of Fleabag in everything I write," she said.
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Renée Zellweger and Joaquin Phoenix won the lead acting prizes for film, while "Fleabag" and "Succession" each took home two TV awards.
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I saw a feminist mid-dissociation, perhaps practicing what Fleabag preached: the virtues of living with the world kept at arm's length.
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On the comedy front, Amazon's "Fleabag" and its creator and star, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, are the heavy favorites after both were nominated.
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While there won't be a third season of Fleabag, the actress has hopped aboard another TV show, coming to HBO this spring.
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Killing Eve creator Waller-Bridge took home the Emmy for Leading Actress in a Comedy Series for her other nominated show, Fleabag.
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At times, "Search Party" reminded me of "Fleabag" and "Catastrophe," two recent series that were only six episodes long but entirely satisfying.
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Not long after that, Waller-Bridge was asked to write a TV version of "Fleabag," which aired on BBC Three in 2016.
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Alan Arkin — "The Kominsky Method"Michael Douglas — "The Kominsky Method"Bill Hader — "Barry"Andrew Scott — "Fleabag"Tony Shalhoub — "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"
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The mind behind "Fleabag," which took home six Emmys this year, is expected to get $20 million a year, the report said.
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No hot food for us, but there was a hot priest (aka Andrew Scott from "Fleabag," who was with the "1917" team).
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Per the Reporter: Of course, both seasons of Fleabag are flawless, but that second season is somehow even better than the first.
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Many of the shows that were influenced by it are there — from Girls to Atlanta to Fleabag — but Louie itself is not.
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Now, Waller-Bridge seems pretty serious that Fleabag won't be coming back for a third season, at least not any time soon.
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For Ms. Waller-Bridge, the writing should "always be about the glory of being a woman," with Fleabag free to say anything.
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The writer-actress behind the wild, disorienting comedy of "Fleabag" and "Killing Eve" is bringing her sneak-attack humor to New York.
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"Fleabag," which she will soon take to the Soho Playhouse in New York, is a sex comedy that is secretly a tragedy.
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"The first season of Fleabag introduced audiences to the brilliant and rebellious voice of Phoebe Waller-Bridge," he added in the press release.
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As Priest begins rambling about how "fucked" his life will be if they have sex, Fleabag realizes they are about to have sex.
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Fleabag and Priest nearly have frenzied sex in his church… until a painting crashes to the ground, reminding them both of God's presence.
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It briefly settled on Phoebe Waller-Bridge, star of the hit comedy series Fleabag and an actor on the upcoming Han Solo movie.
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We know, in the end, that Fleabag, who's finally allowed herself to love, is going to be okay — not great, probably, but okay.
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge burst onto U.S. soil with Amazon's Fleabag, which followed her massively underrated one-season show, Crashing (no, not that one).
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Back in August 2017, writer and actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge announced that her Amazon show, Fleabag, would be coming back for season two.
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The series, which previously won the award in 2011, is up against Atlanta, Black-ish, Fleabag, Silicon Valley, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Veep.
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When confronted about it, Fleabag glances, panicked, into the camera, looks away and then back again, as if worried about the audience's reaction.
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That scene in the therapist's chair is intriguing, particularly because this season follows Fleabag as she seeks to move past her previous mistakes.
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Her wildly successful show Fleabag, though raw and so human that it feels real, is not based on her life or her family.
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The first season of Fleabag was a solid, pitch-black comedy about sex and trauma that felt like a full and complete story.
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The success of a show like Fleabag is undoubtedly down to its brazen exploration of the loneliness and anger of a single woman.
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Fleabag is no leader: she scuppers her chance of a loan by taking a gamble and flashing her breasts at the bank manager.
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Despite kudos for backing critically acclaimed shows like "Fleabag" and "The Marvelous Mrs Maisel", Amazon's longer record in TV draws similarly tepid reviews.
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge based the thrillingly caustic "Fleabag," about a depressed, sexually adventurous Londoner, on her one-woman show of the same name.
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If the "Fleabag" jumpsuit is a little too sexy, go in the exact opposite direction and dress up as one of the Tethered.
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"Game of Thrones" and "Fleabag" were the big winners of Sunday's Emmy awards, but the biggest loser might have been the ceremony itself.
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As much as I would like to see Fleabag again, I'd also like to know that she's attained a kind of inner peace.
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But it's her mouth that holds center stage at the SoHo Playhouse, where her fabled — and genuinely fabulous — "Fleabag" opened on Thursday night.
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More than any current work of theater I can think of, "Fleabag" operates on the principle that no emotion is pure and simple.
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I certainly think "Fleabag" has got people talking about sexuality and religion and how those two things can marry each other and coexist.
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Rival Amazon Prime Video won two awards during the evening for its show "Fleabag," both going to writer and actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
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Throughout, including in "Fleabag"-style, wide-eyed asides to the camera, Ms. König cuts through the technical wizardry to get to the fantasy.
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Eternally inappropriate, Fleabag is turned on and decides to masturbate to Obama's press conference...as her boyfriend lays fast asleep right beside her.
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"I asked myself if Fleabag has more to say and frankly she hasn't shut up since," Ms. Waller-Bridge said in a statement.
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The "Fleabag" star&aposs message to Lopez wasn&apost the first time the Brit drew attention to well-known figures this awards season.
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Just as the audience is her interloper, Fleabag is ours, bridging trauma and feelings when we aren't ready to talk about them yet.
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Like Phoebe Waller-Bridge of "Fleabag," an artist close to twice her age, she interrupts the proceedings constantly to speak to her audience.
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Like Phoebe Waller-Bridge of "Fleabag," an artist close to twice her age, she interrupts the proceedings constantly to speak to her audience.
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"Fleabag" season two was one of just three shows he gave a nod to (along with Netflix&aposs "Unbelievable" and HBO&aposs "Watchmen").
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Amazon Prime Video has won lots of attention in recent years for its highly produced, critically acclaimed originals, including Fleabag, The Marvelous Mrs.
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Better Call Saul Bodyguard Game of Thrones Killing Eve Ozark Pose Succession This Is Us Barry Fleabag The Good Place The Marvelous Mrs.
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Amazon is no longer just for stocking up on used books, bulk-ordering toilet paper, and re-watching Fleabag for the fourth time.
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Many of the sharpest sequences feature the bickering and bantering between Fleabag and her sister Claire, played by the magnificently restrained Sian Clifford.
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"Fleabag" and Phoebe-Waller Bridge should clean up the best TV comedy category and Jennifer Lopez will hopefully get her first Golden Globe.
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After graduating, she set up a theater company called DryWrite with her best friend, Vicky Jones, who went on to direct "Fleabag" onstage.
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge is bringing her breakout stage-show-turned-television-hit "Fleabag" to New York for an Off Broadway run next year.
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In the second (and apparently final) season of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's exceptional BBC series Fleabag, the titular character admits that she's searching for surrender.
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A year out, Fleabag has her life back on track, but Boo's death isn't part of it in the same way as her mother's.
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And thanks to his recent appearances in Fleabag and Season 5 of Black Mirror, Summer 2019 is turning into the Summer of Andrew Scott.
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Maisel" and "Barry" -- the comedy balloting found spots for NBC's quirky "The Good Place" and critical-darling streamers "Russian Doll" (Netflix) and Amazon's "Fleabag.
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Why is the Netflix film Mudbound a movie at two hours and 20173 minutes, while Amazon's Fleabag is TV at just under three hours?
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Fans of the brilliant Amazon comedy Fleabag will be delighted to hear that creator-star Phoebe Waller-Bridge will serve as Killing Eve's showrunner.
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And the auteur-driven perspectives of Atlanta, Insecure, Fleabag, Master of None and Better Things show that there's universality in the most personal stories.
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Even before I dove into season two of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's dark comedy Fleabag, I wanted to mute the phrase "hot priest" on Twitter.
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Seasons: 1Episodes: 6Fans of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's series "Fleabag" won't want to miss out on "Crashing," another offbeat comedy that also stars Waller-Bridge.
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It is refreshing to see Fleabag make a friend; you can imagine how buoyant she must have been before her mother and Boo died.
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VICE: A lot of writers have characterized Fleabag as "unlikable," which is a trendy way to talk about female characters who do bad things.
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The protagonist — who goes only by the titular "Fleabag" — spends most of season one's six episodes tearing apart her life, her relationships, and herself.
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Craig said he specifically asked the Emmy-winning "Fleabag" creator to help "polish" the script, which had already been written when she was hired.
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Fleabag wouldn't work without Phoebe Waller-Bridge's brittle, brilliant performance at its center — which makes sense, since she's the show's creator, writer, and star.
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But Fleabag deftly evades the accusations of whining and wallowing that Hannah received because, instead of complaining during moments of turmoil, she simply dissociates.
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The score was co-composed by Isobel Waller-Bridge (yes, that Waller-Bridge) who also recently wrote the music for her sister's masterpiece Fleabag.
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"Fleabag," the Amazon comedy that grew out of a one-woman show by its creator, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, also won big, with four awards.
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New York (CNN Business)Amazon (AMZN) Studios on Tuesday announced that it has signed an overall production deal with "Fleabag" creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
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As with Fleabag, the show's characters don't quite seem to know themselves yet, but Waller-Bridge insists that's a deliberate part of its charm.
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She also worked with Waller-Bridge and her Fleabag co-creator and longtime collaborator Vicky Jones on their Soho Theater production, Good. Clean. Fun.
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While Waller-Bridge has said the second season of "Fleabag" was its final season, Amazon has said it would be interested in another season.
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But although "Fleabag" may have been what made Waller-Bridge a household name in the US, it's not her first or only successful project.
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At the end of her second speech, Waller-Bridge personally thanked former president Barack Obama for putting "Fleabag" on his "best of 2019" list.
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Waller-Bridge's character on Fleabag might put it all out there, but the writer-actor tends to keep her own personal life under wraps.
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Why you should watch: With "Fleabag," Phoebe Waller-Bridge crafted a flawless two-season run of some of the best television made this decade.
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Maisel Schitt's Creek Alan Arkin, The Kominsky Method Michael Douglas, The Kominsky Method Bill Hader, Barry Andrew Scott, Fleabag Tony Shalhoub, The Marvelous Mrs.
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Fresh off the second season of her acclaimed show Fleabag, the writer / actor / producer inked a blockbuster deal with Amazon Prime Video in September.
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As Fleabag narrates, she tilts her head confidingly to break the fourth wall, or whispers a quip from the corner of her lipsticked mouth.
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For Phoebe Waller-Bridge (creator of Fleabag and the one responsible for bringing Killing Eve to the silver screen) the apartment perfectly sums up Villanelle.
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"Fleabag" wastes no episodes building impressions, introducing its awful characters with brisk descriptions and allowing more time to be given over to bickering and mishaps.
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"Fleabag" is to comedy what "Coldplay" is to music: a demonstration that yet another working-class redoubt has been thoroughly conquered by the professional classes.
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There's no script for what Fleabag went through with best friend Boo (Jenny Rainsford), for the complex, vindictive grief which eats away at its host.
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For Fleabag, the ideal future is resetting everything to as it was before Boo's death, not continuing along and weaving that pain into her story.
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Maybe the greatest moment in television ever is when Fleabag, and viewers, learn that The Hot Priest can actually see her asides to the camera.
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When we meet its star Chris Gillhaney (Fleabag dreamboat Scott; Sherlock baddie Moriarty), he's sitting in his car outside of Smithereen, a Twitter-like app.
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Fleabag is currently up for a Comedy Emmy, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge grabbed a nom for Lead Actress in a Comedy, but is that enough?
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They included female-driven BBC America thriller "Killing Eve," which also won nods for stars Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh; dark comedy "Fleabag," from Amazon.
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A graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Ms Waller-Bridge originally created "Fleabag" for a stand-up monologue at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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If you want to watch, for example, Euphoria, Dickinson, The Mandalorian, Fleabag, Killing Eve, and Stranger Things, you're going to need a lot of accounts.
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"Fleabag" is a binger's dream — you can dispatch the first season in under three hours and be tweeting about it before you go to bed.
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A couple of times, Fleabag sells a sandwich in her café for, like, 25 GBP, and everyone just accepts that with an "Ugh, London" attitude.
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Also: Do we want to be like messy and complicated Fleabag, or the hyper-successful writer-creator-actress Waller-Bridge, or a little of both?
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The morning after the "Sexhibition" party, Fleabag stands on the curb in front of the cafe and considers walking into traffic just as Boo did.
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We might have been confused at points as to whether Hot Priest's back-and-forth with Fleabag was irresistible sexual tension or, at times, manipulative.
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Both seasons of the show have been released to almost universal acclaim, with Fleabag herself widely hailed as the apotheosis of the damaged woman protagonist.
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Game of Thrones and Fleabag won the two top awards at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
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We're most excited to to see what "little spices" Emmy winner Phoebe Waller-Bridge ("Fleabag") added to the script after being brought onto the film.
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The Fleabag and Killing Eve creator scooped up the Emmys for best comedy series, best comedy writing and best leading comedy actress on Sunday night.
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Come for Rupert Everett as the wacky head of the hospital; stay for Andrew Scott of "Fleabag" as a skeezy Charles Dickens in Episode 2.
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Just look at the Golden Globes this year — "Fleabag" star and creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge wore a daring suit (sans shirt), on the red carpet.
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The people who watch "Fleabag" love it, but we don't even know how many folks that is, since Amazon and Netflix don't share such information.
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With its wins, "Fleabag" beat the perennial winner, HBO's "Veep," for best comedy and kept "Veep" star Julia Louis- Dreyfus from winning her seventh Emmy.
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The cracks in Claire's veneer of perfection become more and more obvious, until it's clear that she, like Fleabag, is just doing her fucking best.
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We're covering Iran's response to a general's killing, the political dimension of Australia's devastating wildfires, and wins for "Fleabag" and "22020" at the Golden Globes.
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"Fleabag" won both the Golden Globe for best tv series (musical or comedy) and Waller-Bridge won best actress for her performance in the show.
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Yet the success of "Fleabag" emerges just as transatlantic culture seems to be casting a sympathetic eye on the millennial generation for the first time.
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Even when her friends and family are trying to reach out to her, Fleabag can't seem to help making a joke or instigating a fight.
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Fleabag, in which Waller-Bridge plays the title character, is based on a play she wrote and performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2013.
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Don't expect a straight Fleabag novelization or whatever, though—The Scriptures is more of an inside look at how Waller-Bridge's TV series came together.
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Though superb, "Fleabag" arguably does not have the broad appeal of "Everybody Loves Raymond", which was nominated for that award seven times and won twice.
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On the TV side, Netflix's The Crown, Amazon's Fleabag and HBO's Succession all came away with multiple nominations, including in the big drama series category.
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Why did Schwartz, the most promising poet of his generation, end up dying at the age of 52 in a fleabag hotel in Midtown Manhattan?
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She began to think about the last thing that anyone would ever expect of Fleabag, and now the second season is about her finding faith.
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"I'm so glad #Fleabag is getting a second season it's pure genius and an inspiration for someone whom one day hopes to be funny," one wrote.
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Fleabag is something of a spirited goth, too, and her choice of running spot speaks to her sense of humor and her disregard for social norms.
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It was in movies and TV shows, both historical and contemporary (My Sister's Sister; Brothers; Catch & Release; Sorry For Your Loss; Fleabag; Deadwood; Game of Thrones).
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Like Eve, the eponymous main character of Fleabag is deeply strange in a way that goes far beyond the "quirkiness" usually allotted to "complex" female leads.
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That means your fourth night of a consecutive four-night stay is completely free, from fleabag motels to the Four Seasons, provided you book through Citi.
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"I asked myself if Fleabag has more to say and frankly she hasn't shut up since," Waller-Bridge said in the statement announcing her show's return.
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The therapist (Fiona Shaw) asks some preliminary questions—why she is here, is she close to her family, and so on—which Fleabag deflects with humour.
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Fleabag (a nickname inspired by Waller-Bridge's own childhood; her character on the show is never referred to by name) has little shame or self-control.
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I think it's a quick comparison to make because [Fleabag] is dealing with similar issues, but I think their stories and characters are very, very different.
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A little like Peep Show but with a female lead, Fleabag is extremely funny but only kind of a comedy—it's also heartbreaking and bitingly honest.
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If you wanted to catch up on Fleabag on your Chromecast or watch some YouTube cat videos on your Fire TV Stick, now is the time.
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With graphic discussions of anal sex, hairy nipples and "flash poos in Pret", "Fleabag" is more verbally explicit and formally daring than most British comedy shows.
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge, known for writing and starring in the series "Fleabag" and writing "Killing Eve," attended Wimbledon on July 5 in a floral sun dress.
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Prime Video's "Fleabag" won the Emmys for best comedy series, actress in a comedy series (Phoebe Waller-Bridge), and writing and directing for a comedy series.
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The show begins with Fleabag being interviewed for a clerical job, and it establishes her contradictory approach to others, including the audience, equally ingratiating and antagonistic.
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Critic's Pick There's a "previously on" introduction to Season 2 of Amazon's "Fleabag," which you may need given that Season 1 appeared nearly three years ago.
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge and her comedy Fleabag continued their awards show dominance with wins for Best Actress in a Comedy Series and Best Television Series – Comedy.
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Fleabag is constantly leaving her body during climactic moments (sex, breakdowns, fights) and turning directly to the audience with snarky commentary on whatever debacle is unfolding.
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The dissociated girl of Fleabag might be the cool girl or chill girl's cousin, the same way the desperate girl of Girls might be the hysteric's.
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Over the course of the season, Fleabag goes where most viewers never imagined our grief-ridden, substance-loving heroine would: on a journey of self-improvement.
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The Amazon series "Fleabag" was a major upset winner for best comedy, and the show's star, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, also took home acting and writing honors.
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Even the most casual perusal of Fleabag could tell you that Sian Clifford's Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series is well-deserved.
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At one point or another, Killing Eve, Sherlock, Derry Girls, Fleabag, Love Island, and The Great British Baking Show all struggled to make the transatlantic trip.
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Anne Hathaway, Tina Fey, Ed Sheeran (yes, that Ed Sherran), and Fleabag''s Hot Priest (Andrew Scott) all appear, along with a dozen other famous faces.
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In the finale, during Claire and Fleabag's father's wedding, Fleabag empowers her sister to go after what she really wants: a Finnish dude also named Klare.
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I choose to believe the theory that the fox at the very end of the episode signifies that the priest will eventually choose Fleabag over God.
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I haven't gotten out that much lately since I had a baby several months ago, but I just finished watching Fleabag, and man, was it incredible.
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It's a particular specialty of the BBC series "Fleabag," created by and starring the glamorous thirty-one-year-old British playwright and performer Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
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In those closing sequences, "Fleabag" turns a trick worthy of Gypsy Rose Lee herself, exposing the merciful story that's hidden many layers beneath the cruel one.
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Fleabag herself (Waller-Bridge) had softened a bit between seasons, but her quest for self-improvement hadn't yielded much in the way of happiness or fulfillment.
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The New York run of "Fleabag" is being presented by Annapurna Theater's Kevin Emrick and Skye Optican; Soho Theater; and DryWrite, Ms. Waller-Bridge's production company.
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Lulu, a kind of proto-Fleabag, uses truth songs to wreak havoc among her housemates, and the ukulele she carts around like a personality isn't cute.
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Release Date: TBD Fleabag star Brett Gelman's efforts are on full-display in Lemon, Janicza Bravo's groundbreaking seriocomedy about an actor (Gelman) whose life is falling apart.
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The first season of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's show Fleabag was an acidic, pitch-black comedy about sex, loneliness, and a very specific brand of 21st-century ennui.
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Crashing will probably never get another season or mainstream success, especially with Waller-Bridge having moved on and grown more prolific for Fleabag and recently Killing Eve.
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But, "Episode 5's" very sexy sex scene — unlike Game of Thrones' most famous hookup, there is actual thrusting — isn't the sexiest part of Fleabag season 2.
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With the second seasons of Fleabag and Killing Eve ending in practically the same week, it's about to be a looooong summer of Phoebe Waller Bridge withdrawal.
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Later, when Fleabag convinces him to actually get into bed with her despite his commitment to love just "one thing," she's the partner with the upper hand.
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It's been a plotline in countless movies (A Chorus Line, Sixteen Candles, The To Do List); TV shows (Fleabag, Degrassi, iCarly), and books (Are You There God?
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But "Fleabag", which started out as a one-woman theatre show, is unusual not only for the frequency of these breaks, but the myriad purposes they serve.
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In 1995, Charlize Theron was newly arrived in Hollywood after stints as a model and a dancer, living in a fleabag motel, and running out of money.
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"I encourage you all to gather your girls for evenings of dissent and laughter and wine and analysis and bingeing of Fleabag and Chewing Gum," she wrote.
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I'm a lesbian fan of Fleabag, so I was scared this season would be very much not for me, even though Phoebe Waller-Bridge's character is queer.
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The creator behind the platform's popular show "Fleabag" has said that it wants to end the show, but Salke said Amazon would be interested in another season.
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The Fleabag creator and actress, 34, opened up to BBC Radio on Friday about her involvement in the upcoming 25th installment in the James Bond film series.
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Fleabag opens the season by announcing that we're watching a love story — and yes, she and the Priest flirt up a storm, with amazing chemistry to boot.
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The British star who wore a daring, black, midriff-baring ensemble by Armani Privé won Most Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor for season two of "Fleabag."
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I am a huge Fleabag fan (if you haven't watched it, drop everything and do so!) and bought the last available tickets at a theater in Queens.
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"Fleabag," about a self-centered, often nasty but well-meaning young woman negotiating sex, love and family bonds, is the darker and more inventive of the two.
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When she won all her Emmys for Fleabag this fall, a photo of Phoebe Waller-Bridge (who also happens to be Vogue's December cover model) went viral.
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While the first season of Fleabag was unapologetically and aggressively dark, the show's second season took an unexpected turn toward the optimistic, verging at points on heartwarming.
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"Fleabag" creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge plans to auction off the outfit she wore to Sunday's Golden Globes for charity, with the proceeds benefiting Australian firefighters.
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Amazon's "Fleabag" was a major upset winner for best comedy, picking up four awards in all, including acting and writing honors for its star, Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
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Fleabag has won two awards, and Waller-Bridge has presented one alongside Bill Hader where she proclaimed herself one of the tallest people at the award show.
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"Fleabag" even attracted the attention of former president Barack Obama, who listed the show's second season in his annual list of his favorite movies and TV shows.
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"Fleabag" creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge took time at the end of her Golden Globe Awards acceptance speech to personally thank former US president Barack Obama.
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Fleabag has a flashback to sitting in bed, watching President Barack Obama give a speech, and putting her hand underneath the bedcovers so she can pleasure herself.
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Maisel" (Amazon) "Schitt's Creek" (CBC Television) Alan Arkin "The Kominsky Method" Michael Douglas "The Kominsky Method" Bill Hader "Barry" Andrew Scott "Fleabag" Tony Shalhoub "The Marvelous Mrs.
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I adored the way it seemed aware that it was a TV show being watched by very real people, making it a weird companion piece to Fleabag.
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The show won Outstanding Comedy Series, and Fleabag star and creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge won Lead Actress in a Comedy Series and Writing for a Comedy Series.
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Her one-woman play, "Fleabag," hit the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with such force in 2013 that it left a smoldering Phoebe-shaped crater in the comedy landscape.
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Maisel Kirsten Dunst, On Becoming a God in Central Florida Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep Catherine O'Hara, Schitt's Creek Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag (WINNER) BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES Andre Braugher, Brooklyn Nine-Nine Anthony Carrigan, Barry William Jackson Harper, The Good Place Daniel Levy, Schitt's Creek Nico Santos, Superstore Andrew Scott, Fleabag (WINNER) Henry Winkler, Barry BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES Alex Borstein, The Marvelous Mrs.
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Maisel Anna Chlumsky, Veep Alec Berg and Bill Hader, Barry Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag **WINNER** Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle and Stacy Osei-Kuffour, Pen15 Leslye Headland, Natasha Lyonne and Amy Poehler, Russian Doll David Mandel, Veep Josh Siegal and Dylan Morgan, The Good Place Allison Silverman, Russian Doll Alec Berg, Barry Harry Bradbeer, Fleabag **WINNER** Mark Cendrowski, The Big Bang Theory Bill Hader, Barry Daniel Palladino, The Marvelous Mrs.
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In one scene with a therapist (the phenomenal Fiona Shaw), Fleabag recognizes her internal issues, but she's been keeping them at bay rather than addressing them head on.
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If the show had another season, these subtleties would have to escalate, and we don't have the time or patience for an Office-Season-9 version of Fleabag.
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The first is for outstanding supporting actress in a drama series for 'Killing Eve,' and the other is for outstanding guest actress in a comedy series for 'Fleabag.'
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We've been there, we've done that, and in a world where shows like Fleabag, Broad City, and Insecure exist, it's hard to believe Hulu is trying it again.
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Price: $37.62 Marks & Spencer stores noticed a spike in sales of canned G&Ts after Fleabag and the Priest shared a few in Season 2 this past spring.
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We start to see that Fleabag addressing the audience is not a clever exposition device, but something she is doing in the real world to disassociate from reality.
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Fleabag's first season used the relationship between Fleabag and the show's viewing audience to tease out the dark moments from the character's past that she'd prefer to forget.
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In a flashback to her mother's funeral, there's a running bit that Fleabag looks exceptionally stunning, as though it's rude, or unfair, to be attractive while in mourning.
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Emotions never come singly in "Fleabag," in which Ms. Waller-Bridge's onstage alter ego (the title character) describes grieving, fornicating, drinking and insulting her way through contemporary London.
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Where to watch: HBO Go A lot of people (myself included) slept on Fleabag, but now that the show is very Emmy-nominated, it's time to catch up.
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The "Fleabag" star won Most Oustanding Actress by a Female Actor and said while she tries to be "spontaneous" with speeches — this time she&aposd written something down.
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Maybe you're an aspiring TV writer, or maybe you're just a TV fan who binge-watched all of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's brilliant Emmy award–winning dark comedy Fleabag.
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The 34-year-old "Fleabag" creator and actress expressed her gratitude for the "Hustlers" star, who unintentionally inspired the show&aposs popular character, the hot priest (Andrew Scott).
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Even so, amid a stellar crop of sophomore shows ("Fleabag" among them), nothing had a better year, with more bonkers flourishes, than "Barry," HBO's hitman-turned-actor comedy.
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Besides "Fleabag," there were some other unexpected and welcome nominations — like the ones for "Schitt's Creek" — but there were also numerous nods for shows way past their prime.
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Her performance as Claire, the poised, uptight, and professional foil to her laid-back, messy younger sister, Fleabag (showrunner and creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge), is simply, well, outstanding.
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The Fleabag fans in your life would undoubtedly love to hit the streets in this outfit and feel like they are embodying the spirit of Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the creator and star of "Fleabag," won two Golden Globes at Sunday&aposs 77th award ceremony in the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.
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The BBC/Amazon series follows a self-destructive, sex-obsessed young woman, known only as the titular Fleabag, as she deals with grief, loneliness, and faith in London.
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But as endearing as these asides to us are, they're often an excuse for Fleabag to avoid speaking honestly — to the people in her life and to herself.
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Without Boo around, sex has become a hard drug: it's the way that Fleabag blots out her uglier memories, and it's also the way that she relives them.
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In one bravura sequence, Fleabag is commuting on the tube and she looks around, gazing at her weary companions, fellow-passengers and citizens of London, a motley variety.
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"Why you should watch: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the woman responsible for both recent breakout hits "Fleabag" and "Killing Eve," is both co-executive producing and costarring on "Run.
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Phoebe-Waller Bridge may have had a huge night at the 2019 Emmy Awards, but she's still choosing to say goodbye to her hit Amazon/BBC series, Fleabag.
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" Waller-Bridge's "Fleabag" character is "a howl of rage" and "an indictment of the boomer class who've raised her without the equipment to cope in the adult world.
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OK, Chernobyl and Fleabag are both easy recommendations that just about anybody can watch and love, but Nicholas Winding Refn's new 13-hour Amazon neo-noir is, uh, different.
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Where You've Seen Angus Imrie Before: Aside from many radio and theater roles, Angus Imrie was in the movie The Kid Who Would Be King and briefly in Fleabag.
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With a dead mother and a sort of useless father, the guidance Fleabag gets from Belinda is the kind she can't get from actual parental figures in her life.
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But in the confessional, the momentary power difference between the two of them is made breathtakingly explicit: Fleabag relinquishes all her autonomy in exchange for the euphoria of submission.
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Weird and unruly women have dominated TV and film following Broad City's initial example (Fleabag, Crazy Ex Girlfriend, Trainwreck), especially the stoner variety (Mary + Jane, Landline, the upcoming DUDE).
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Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: What works best in "Solo" are the performances, from droids voiced by Jon Favreau and Phoebe Waller-Bridge ("Fleabag") to the utterly charismatic Ehrenreich and Glover.
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I also ogle the jumpsuit from Fleabag season two, episode one, but I legitimately have no place to wear it and it's 95% polyester, which I try to avoid.
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The movie costars Thandie Newton and Emilia Clarke in unspecified roles, Woody Harrelson plays a mentor figure, and Fleabag star Phoebe Waller-Bridge will play a performance-capture character.
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Released on Amazon on September 16th and available in Britain on BBC3, "Fleabag" is part of a new wave of provocative, anti-hero comedy written by and about women.
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge had minor roles on British shows including "Doctors" and "How Not to Live Your Life" and is now known for creating her own hit show, "Fleabag."
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"'Fleabag' has been a gift to our Prime Video customers and we are excited for what comes next from this brilliant mind to dazzle and delight our global audience."
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But the "Fleabag" that has set up camp in New York through April 14 is a 65-minute monologue first seen five years ago at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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It's been a long time since the first season of the dark British comedy series "Fleabag" arrived in the U.S. on Amazon Prime Video — nearly three years, in fact.
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But she can also play plangent solos, and the first season — as Fleabag realized she couldn't laugh or fornicate her bad memories away — built to an ending of catharsis.
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Yes, if the trailer for the April release, directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga ("True Detective") and with script tweaks by Phoebe Waller-Bridge ("Fleabag"), is anything to go by.
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If that's the case, Fleabag: The Scriptures is just for you; it contains all filming scripts for the show's two seasons, plus behind-the-scenes commentary from Waller-Bridge.
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But midway through the show's final season, one scene involving the fourth wall was particularly surprising to audiences who were used to Fleabag getting away with her aside remarks.
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HBO is billing the new show as a comedy that is slated to debut April 12, just a year after the most recent season of Fleabag came and went.
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" It's hilarious, and tragic, and possibly one of the best moments I've seen on TV this year, and yes, that includes the moment Hot Priest asks Fleabag to "kneel.
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Outstanding Drama Series Better Call Saul Bodyguard Game of Thrones Killing Eve Ozark Pose Succession This Is Us Outstanding Comedy Series Barry Fleabag The Good Place The Marvelous Mrs.
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Jumpsuits are all the rage these days, and what better way to pay tribute to Fleabag than to wear the famous black jumpsuit that fans have been obsessing over.
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Specifically, her relationship with her best friend Vicky Jones, the director of Fleabag, the one-woman stage play which was first performed at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe festival.
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"Fleabag" writer-star Phoebe Waller-Bridge's other creation, "Killing Eve," faded a bit in season two, but rests on the outskirts of great shows about people who kill people.
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Fleabag won three of the night's most coveted awards in the comedy categories, including Best Comedy, Best Actress in a Comedy Series, and Best Writing for a Comedy Series.
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Netflix grabbed a few trophies for When They See Us and Ozark, while Amazon's Fleabag, HBO's Game of Thrones, and other competitor tentpole projects outperformed by a noticeable margin.
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The ensemble is topnotch, including Olivia Colman as the stepmonster and Jamie Demetriou as a hapless, logorrheic, funky-toothed but somehow lovable documentarian whom Fleabag meets on a bus.
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Amazon's "Fleabag" stole the show Sunday at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards, bringing home four awards, including those for best actress in a comedy, directing and best comedy series.
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Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge has repeatedly said that her Amazon series is over and won't get a third season—but it almost didn't get a second season, either.
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In this sitcom, which has been available on Amazon Prime since September, Ms Waller-Bridge plays a 20-something woman — never named, just Fleabag — with an insatiable sexual appetite.
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Release Date: February 24 on Netflix Fleabag star Brett Gelman's efforts are on full-display in Lemon, Janicza Bravo's groundbreaking seriocomedy about an actor (Gelman) whose life is falling apart.
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Flashbacks of Boo creep into the scene as Fleabag lets loose and confesses to everything but this, begging the Priest for guidance and a chance to course-correct her life.
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Just as your emotions were beginning to subside from the Fleabag-inspired storm they'd been whipped up into, more Andrew Scott-shaped clouds are beginning to form on the horizon.
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Four programs fitting that general description -- FX's "Atlanta" and "Better Things," and Amazon's "One Mississippi" and "Fleabag" -- premiere over the next two weeks, and all of them are quite good.
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Luckily, Ms Waller-Bridge has experience in this regard: the very first minute of "Fleabag" saw the heroine handle the etiquette of anal sex during a 2am Tuesday booty call.
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That's probably why Fleabag has so often been compared to Girls, even though it's only one girl, who breaks the fourth wall to address her only real companion: the audience.
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And now, thanks to a new BBC charity album coming this November, it turns out she can slay some ukulele Portishead covers with her Fleabag co-star, Olivia Colman, too.
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That's exactly what everyone said after Fleabag season one—and then Waller-Bridge somehow managed to make another string of episodes that pushed the series to a whole new level.
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In a scene about halfway through the new season of Fleabag, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who writes and stars in every episode, sits inside a confession booth in an old church.
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Here's what you'll need to remember about the fourth wall-breaking Fleabag (we never do learn her real name), the sardonic manager of a failing, guinea pig-themed London cafe.
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Though the show resolutely remains a comedy (especially in the first half of the season), as the story develops, it gradually becomes clear that Boo's death weighs heavily on Fleabag.
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Claire, on the other hand, is a driven overachiever who stays with her husband, Martin (Brett Gelman), despite the fact that at Claire's birthday party, he tried to kiss Fleabag.
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By the Book "I prefer not to know exactly how I feel about a character," says the Emmy-winning actor, writer and producer (whose new book is "Fleabag: The Scriptures").
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While Fleabag ended with its second season, Waller-Bridge's time in the spotlight will continue when she hosts Saturday Night Live next month with Taylor Swift as the musical guest.
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Former President Obama got a Golden Globes shoutout from "Fleabag" star Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who cheekily praised him for naming her comedy series as one of his favorite TV shows.
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So, naturally, "Fleabag" fans were left deeply amused to see the former president give a shout out to the show that included this moment in its very first five minutes.
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According to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, Netflix was in a bidding war against Amazon for the chance to help adapt Waller-Bridge's one-woman show, Fleabag, for the small screen.
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Watching a bunch of TV as self-care is a pretty polarising strategy — although there's a lot to be said for the undeniable comfort that comes with a Fleabag binge.
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For instance, Fleabag won only two Creative Arts awards — but one was for casting, which has now called the correct Outstanding Comedy Series winner for the last five Emmy ceremonies.
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ARTS & LEISURE Because of an editing error, a summary on Page 1 misspells the surname of the writer and actress whose one-woman play "Fleabag" is headed to Off Broadway.
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Early in season 2, canned G&Ts from Marks & Spencer, a British retail chain, become a uniting feature of Fleabag (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) and The Priest's (Andrew Scott) ill-advised relationship.
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The movie costars Thandie Newton and Emilia Clarke in unspecified roles, Woody Harrelson plays a mentor figure, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge (writer-star of Fleabag) will play a performance-capture character.
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We devoured the first series of Fleabag a lifetime ago (give or take three years) and that sneak peak at Killing Eve season 2 could only hold us for so long.
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She stepped back from writing the second season of Killing Eve in order to focus on Fleabag, and that's while she was juggling her role in Solo: A Star Wars Story.
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IN THE second season of "Fleabag", the celebrated comedy series written by and starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the titular character is given a counselling session for her birthday by her father.
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Fleabag is quick to admit to the camera that she wants to bone the priest, but Hot Priest takes more time to grapple with feeling tingles for someone who isn't God.
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We know he wants to have sex with Fleabag—we can see it in how he looks at her, grazes her arm, and hovers around her—and she knows it, too.
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The only person who doesn't know he's going to fuck Fleabag is the Hot Priest himself—or maybe he does, but he definitely has trouble coming to terms with his desires.
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It created the sort of intimacy that I saw between Fleabag and Hot Priest: a feeling like, If no one else knows about us, then what we have is just ours.
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the mastermind behind the sensational Killing Eve, plays the titular role in this very relatable dark comedy, Fleabag constantly breaks the fourth wall to communicate with the audience.
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That's worked well in some cases—Netflix's The Crown, Amazon's Fleabag, Hulu's Handmaid's Tale—but it's still left most streamers looking like a collection of stuff, rather than a curated experience.
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"That won't get you very far here anymore," we hear his recorded voice saying to Fleabag, when she starts to remove her sweater, revealing she has only a bra on underneath.
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While passive aggression is a national quirk in Britain, viewers everywhere can identify with the barbed family chitchat and sexual mishaps, and "Mouche" doesn't tamper with the impeccable rhythm "Fleabag" honed.
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Her character (whom we only ever know as "Fleabag") is a quick-witted, casually selfish woman who speaks directly to the audience as if we're a stand-in for her diary.
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Before Phoebe Waller-Bridge created the hit assassin thriller "Killing Eve," she created and starred in the dark, hilarious "Fleabag," about a woman who's grieving the death of her best friend.
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He was staying in a fleabag on the Lower East Side and had convinced the hotel's owner to let him paint on the rooftop, hanging his canvases on clotheslines to dry.
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Those who have already seen "Fleabag" (available on Amazon) and want more of Waller-Bridge's mucky humor can turn to "Crashing," the saucy sitcom that set her television career in motion.
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In the downtown historic district, there is a scattering of high-end restaurants and upscale boutiques, but a few blocks over, the cityscape changes to boarded up buildings and fleabag motels.
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"Season two would not have exploded in the way that it did if it was not for Andrew Scott, who came into our fleabag world like a whirlwind," Waller-Bridge continued.
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At the Golden Globes on January 5, 2020, Waller-Bridge added to her collection of "Fleabag" awards by taking home the award for best actress in a musical or comedy series.
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The actor, who's starred in shows like Sherlock and a recent episode of Black Mirror, rose to virality this year after his role as The Priest in season 2 of Fleabag.
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These couples range from best friends and forbidden loves (Sorry, Fleabag) to terrifying twosomes that could make for even better group costumes, you know if you're into that sort of thing.
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge&aposs tragicomedy "Fleabag," which follows a self-destructive, sex-obsessed young woman dealing with grief, loneliness, and faith in London, was one of the biggest shows of 2019.
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Maisel Anna Chlumsky — Veep Barry — "The Audition," Alec Berg Barry — "ronny/lily," Bill Hader The Big Bang Theory — "The Stockholm Syndrome," Mark Cendrowski Fleabag — "Episode 1," Harry Bradbeer The Marvelous Mrs.
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The tension of this scene proves to be only a fraction of the breathless action to come in Killing Eve, which is created and showrun by Phoebe Waller-Bridge of Fleabag fame.
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Yet although the format seems to lend itself to straight confession, and a chance to hear a character's honest thoughts, it eventually becomes clear that Fleabag is in fact an unreliable narrator.
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The shrewd use of the fourth wall is only one reason why "Fleabag" is such a joy to watch: as well as making acute observations, the show is hilarious and superbly acted.
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She's written and starred in the glorious second season of Fleabag, saved Star Wars, fixed James Bond, and managed to duck a bunch of Amazon censors to give us this blessed image.
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On September 12, for one night only, the fine folks at National Theatre Live will air a live broadcast of one of the last performances of Fleabag in theaters worldwide, Playbill reports.
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Speaking of the UK, Disney+ won't be arriving in Blighty until March 2020, rudely leaving Britons with nothing to watch until then except for Fleabag and the slow implosion of their government.
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Award-winning playwright Phoebe Waller-Bridge writes and stars as "Fleabag," an unfiltered woman trying to heal, while rejecting anyone who tries to help her and keeping up her bravado all along.
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But the second (and also final) season of "Fleabag" is as close to perfect television as you can get, and we believe it is by far the most deserving of this award.
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Talking to the camera is a storytelling device, yes, but it's also Fleabag trying to disassociate from her own life, a defense mechanism built up in the wake of a friend's death.
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Watch it herePlot synopsis: "Fleabag" is a hilarious and poignant window into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, grief-riddled woman, as she hurls herself at modern living in London.
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But were I to make a rough top five of my favorite shows of the year so far, it would be some combination of Barry, Chernobyl, Fleabag, Fosse/Verdon, and Russian Doll.
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McDonagh, whose relationship with Phoebe Waller-Bridge — the actress and creator of "Fleabag" — has made the spotlight all the more glaring, was gracious and good-humored in acknowledging his distaste for interviews.
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The comedy swerves into tragic territory by revealing that this entire time, despite her frankness about everything else, Fleabag has been secretly racked with guilt about possibly causing her best friend's death.
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In Season 2 of "Fleabag," now on Amazon, Scott plays a G-and-T-swilling, expletive-spewing, utterly divine man of the cloth about to perform the second wedding of Fleabag's father.
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The 25th Bond film, which is finally set to hit theaters in April after production delays, will be directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and co-written by "Fleabag" creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
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As he becomes the first love interest we've seen truly get to know Fleabag, he also becomes the only character who notices her dissociative tendencies and even calls her out for them.
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Last night, Amazon's Fleabag took home four statues, including Outstanding Comedy Series, while groundbreaking performances like Billy Porter's on Pose and Jodie Comer's on Killing Eve also received the recognition they deserved.
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After coming out victorious at the Emmy Awards on Sunday, Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge has signed an overall deal with Amazon Studios that will reportedly earn her $20 million a year.
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Crucial to Fleabag's growth is a handsome priest (Andrew Scott) who's also flawed and searching for meaning, who also communicates with an offscreen presence, and who accepts Fleabag for who she is.
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But I was curious about Killing Eve given the combination of its two female leads and Waller-Bridge, whose six-episode series Fleabag is one of my favorite comedies in recent memory.
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When viewers binge through the Phoebe Waller-Bridge masterpiece's final six episodes, a single question will likely come to consume them: Do Fleabag (Waller-Bridge) and the Hot Priest (Andrew Scott) have sex?
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What makes this scene so much more than cheap innuendo, however, is that the priest complicates a more straightforward dom/sub dynamic by getting on his own knees, joining Fleabag on the floor.
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It's the buzz from that that's kept us sane during this lonely, Fleabag-less year, and, as a reward for our patience, a photo from the show's long-awaited return has finally arrived.
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If you're a young, single woman, you're guaranteed to see yourself reflected in Fleabag in one form or another, even if the mirror it holds up can sometimes be hard to look at.
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We're in a really nice time now when there are so many cool shows like Insecure and Fleabag, where normally we would be considered really niche, and now these shows are so mainstream.
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What's been really exciting about TV now, whether it's Insecure or Better Things, Fleabag, Atlanta, Master of None, is you have all these writer-performer auteurs, and I'm obsessed with all those shows.
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The "hello Father" that she utters to the camera is much dirtier than the one she offers to the minister himself (the therapist suggests, cryptically, that perhaps Fleabag would like to "fuck God").
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The BBC Three hit Fleabag makes its U.S. premiere on Amazon today, and if you can make it to Monday without binge-watching the lot, you clearly have more discipline than we do.
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Discipline is not a strong suit for "Fleabag," the series' titular character played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who also wrote the show as well as the 2013 London play on which it's based.
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As Fleabag proved time and time again, Waller-Bridge is very good at being very funny when the occasion might not seem to call for it, and that serves Killing Eve remarkably well.
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She's also the main creative talent behind Fleabag, which was one of 2016's very best shows and, with a first season that's just under three hours long, one of its most compact.
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Fleabag and HP's relationship was secretive and scandalous, and somewhat deviant from the norm—which is exactly what it was like to fall for someone of the same sex for the first time.
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What it really does, however, is subtly tie the show to Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag, another BBC show about a tall, angular, jaunty woman who speaks in soliloquy, albeit in the modern day.
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So it came as a surprise when "Fleabag" began cleaning up at the Emmys with writing and directing awards, and then with Phoebe Waller-Bridge's win for best actress in a comedy series.
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But if Fleabag were to push beyond her moment of realization, if it made her twist her crooked smile our way for season after season, it would rob that moment of its power.
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I know all too well that fighting through the thicket of your own mind is the work of a lifetime and not a couple of years' worth of TV. But Fleabag did it.
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At different points, Fleabag makes the case that Boo didn't mean to kill herself, and in one flashback, Boo says she wanted get a minor injury that might elicit her cheating boyfriend's sympathy.
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Now, it doesn't have anything to do with sauce pans or Mason jars, but gee willikers why'd it take me so long to catch up with the second season of "Fleabag" on Amazon?
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Sex Education taps into the searing emotional frontier of shows like Lovesick and Fleabag, where relationships that can't be named are as formative if not more so than the ones which make sense.
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The odds had been in the legendary actress' favor to pick up the Emmy award for best comedy actress, but "Fleabag" star Phoebe Waller-Bridge ended up besting her in a surprise win.
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In 2012, she was described as a "rising star" on London's theater scene, appearing in the play "Hay Fever" in London alongside Olivia Colman, who later played the main character's godmother in "Fleabag."
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge had minor roles on British shows including "Doctors" in 2009 and "How Not to Live Your Life" in 2010, and is now known for creating her own hit show, "Fleabag."
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Maisel Andrew Scott, Fleabag Michael Douglas, The Kominsky Ethod Bill Hader, Barry Alan Arkin, The Kominsky Method Female Actor in a Comedy Series Christina Applegate, Dead To Me Alex Borstein, The Marvelous Mrs.
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So you can&apost wait to re-watch "Fleabag" or catch the series finale of "The Man in the High Castle," but you can&apost find Amazon Prime Video on your Roku player?
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PT. And the Emmy goes to... Outstanding Drama Series Better Call SaulBodyguardGame of Thrones — WINNER Killing EveOzarkPoseSuccessionThis Is Us Outstanding Comedy Series Barry Fleabag — WINNER Russian DollSchitt's CreekThe Good Place The Marvelous Mrs.
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She won three Emmys — for starring in, writing, and producing Fleabag — and as if that weren't enough, she created Killing Eve, which won Jodie Comer the Lead Actress in a Drama Series award.
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She wove her preoccupations, along with a wallop of rage, into "Fleabag," a show at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe that scooped up an Olivier nomination and the Stage award for solo performer.
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When "Fleabag" came out, critics were fixated on how sexually explicit it was, which is ironic because the sexual bravado is the character's disguise, her way of preventing anyone from really seeing her.
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BBC America executives were also aware of — and adored — the work of Waller-Bridge, having watched the first episode of the TV version of Fleabag when the show was looking for a US broadcaster.
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One of the reasons Killing Eve, which was adapted for TV by Fleabag writer-star Phoebe Waller-Bridge, is so satisfying is that it both showcases this quality and turns it on its head.
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Donald Glover and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, both creators and stars of their own TV shows (Atlanta and Fleabag respectively), have been hitting the press trail for their new movie, Solo: A Star Wars Story.
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Maisel, Julia Louis-Dreyfus for Veep, Phoebe Waller-Bridge for Fleabag and Catherine O'Hara for Schitt's Creek and Chrstina Applegate for Dead To Me. Check out our full Q&A with the actress below!
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Waller-Bridge's one-woman show, Fleabag—which inspired the TV series—just wrapped up a sold-out run in New York City earlier this year, and will open in London's West End next month.
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She chose from a wide selection of black jumpsuits at Forever 21, and though she did not purchase the exact Fleabag jumpsuit hers still slays so I am now inspired to do the same.
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Olivia Colman (The Night Manager, Fleabag) and David Tennant (Jessica Jones, Doctor Who) return as detective duo DS Ellie Miller and DI Alec Hardy in the third and final season, premiering at 10 p.m.
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge's titular character in the show Fleabag—who watches an Obama speech on her laptop and eats snacks while she reached under the duvet to knock one out—may be more realistic.
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The Outstanding Comedy Series category has four first-time series nominees (Fleabag, The Good Place, Russian Doll, and Schitt's Creek), while the Drama Series category has five (Bodyguard, Killing Eve, Ozark, Pose, and Succession).
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Fleabag is a restless and unhappy hedonist whose best friend and business partner (in a guinea pig-themed coffee shop) was recently killed in a traffic accident that was probably a semi-suicide attempt.
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Her father makes it clear that he wants his new marriage to work, Fleabag's ex shows up with a new girlfriend and the hot, rather dim guy Fleabag has been dating casually dumps her.
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It makes this version a curiosity (as well as a game of spot the difference) for those of us who watched and loved "Fleabag," but the producers are clearly targeting newcomers to the show.
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A sophomore season can be freeing even for the boldest shows — look to the second outings of Atlanta, Fleabag, or Master of None, each of which dialed the show's signature style up to 11.
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There's nothing more charming than to see Phoebe Waller-Bridge take "Fleabag" from a piece of performance art and turn it into a ragingly good TV show and then win a bunch of awards.
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"Fleabag" has been hailed as one of the best shows of the 21st century, and Waller-Bridge has won multiple Emmys, Golden Globes, and SAG and Critics&apos Choice Awards for its second season.
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No Time to Die is directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga (True Detective, Beasts of No Nation) and partially written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag), the second-ever female co-writer on a Bond film.
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And she's at odds with her sister, Claire, her mirror image in female trouble—when Claire tries to hug her, Fleabag is so confused by the gesture that she whacks her in the face.
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It's this new-and-improving Fleabag who joins her family for raucously dysfunctional dinner to celebrate the impending nuptials of her father and godmother, who will be wed by an as-yet-unimportant priest.
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Our gleefully obscene heroine, Fleabag (Phoebe Waller-Bridge), encounters the wise Belinda (Kristin Scott Thomas) at an event honoring the "Best Woman in Business," and their conversation soon turns to matters of the flesh.
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When Fleabag asks "Father" what he's doing, the sexiest line of the series is birthed: "Oh, fuck you for calling me Father, like it doesn't turn you on just to say it," courtesy of Priest.
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Fleabag wouldn't have worked for BBC America, but when the network learned of Killing Eve — as it was now called — they bought it, and began to redevelop the project with Woodward Gentle and Waller-Bridge.
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Hulu Though creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge is better known for her series Fleabag and the more recent Killing Eve, Crashing came before either of those and is a stellar showcase of her brilliantly twisted mind.
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When she asks about friends, Fleabag makes a joke about her pet guinea pig (the last season followed the character as she struggled to come to terms with the death of her human friend, Boo).
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Chewing Gum, similar to last year's other breakout sex-positive British sitcom Fleabag, is a fan of breaking the fourth wall and having Tracey speak directly to the camera in her infectious, rapid-fire narration.
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If "House of Cards" diminished our tolerance for archly clever protagonists who break the fourth wall, "Fleabag" and "Chewing Gum" redeem the trope, with jokes so sharp and exacting that they register as a shock.
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She wove her deliriously smutty preoccupations, along with a wallop of rage, into "Fleabag," a show at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe that scooped up an Olivier nomination and the Stage award for solo performer.
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She's not averse to having Fleabag walk into conventional, potentially sentimental situations, like a possible reconciliation with her disappointed father (Bill Paterson) or a sudden reversal of fortune with a man she was counting on.
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Fleabag, the titular character of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's one-woman-show-turned-two-season-TV-program, has captured the imagination of fans, who are expressing their infatuation with all things PWB by copping her look.
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But in Waller-Bridge's hands, it's clear that Fleabag is vulnerable beneath her immediate snark, and that vulnerability only emerges when her defenses finally come tumbling down, despite her very best and most nihilistic efforts.
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The episode, which was hosted by the "Fleabag" creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge and featured the musical guest Taylor Swift, began with a sketch set in the office of Vice President Pence (Beck Bennett).
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The deal comes on the heels of a big night for Waller-Bridge at the Primetime Emmys on Sunday, when she won awards for "Fleabag"--one for best comedic actress and another for outstanding writing.
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At the 2020 Golden Globes on Sunday night, Waller-Bridge took home the award for best actress in a comedy or musical series for "Fleabag," the Amazon comedic drama she created, wrote, and starred in.
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"Bad Guy" singer Billie Eilish revealed on Tuesday that she&aposll be singing the theme song for the upcoming James Bond film "No Time to Die," written in part by "Fleabag" star Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
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In addition to Bond 25 being Craig's last, it's also the first since #MeToo and Time's Up. It's cowritten by Fleabag and Killing Eve creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge, whose involvement made Lynch squeal with excitement.
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Fleabag is undeniably the best show on Amazon, but it almost wasn't an Amazon show, at all—and Netflix is really, really sad it missed the chance to pick it up, the Hollywood Reporter reports.
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"I mean, to be honest, this just feels like the most beautiful, beautiful way to say goodbye to it, actually," Waller-Bridge, 34, said of Fleabag, which also won outstanding comedy series on Sunday night.
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Like "Sail" by American group Awolnation, which has been perfectly deployed in both Phoebe Waller-Bridge's popular series, Fleabag, and Ali Wong and Randall Park's Netflix film, Always Be My Maybe, as highlighted by a Twitter video by digital strategist William Yu. In Fleabag, the song is used to open Season 1, episode 2, in a surrealist scene on the London Tube, when commuters surrounding the protagonist seem to react in extreme pain or laughter to the beat, quickly switching back to their regular expressions.
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"So happy about this, Fleabag is one of the best things on TV." According to The Hollywood Reporter, Waller-Bridge was on a bus when she decided it was time to give the series another go.
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Filling out the cast: Woody Harrelson, Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke, Atlanta auteur Donald Glover (as Lando Calrissian), Westworld actress Thandie Newton (not shown), and Fleabag star Phoebe Waller-Bridge, with Joonas Suotamo as Chewbacca.
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Those factors combined with this extra push from Fleabag, could mean canned gin & tonics are destined to be 2019's drink of the summer, which is great because there just so happens to be an opening.
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Fleabag was a satisfyingly self-contained portrait of a young woman slowly realizing she's in crisis, and Russian Doll cleverly closed its own loop after letting its characters grow and change by running through it repeatedly.
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It's difficult not to compare it with counterparts like Insecure, Fleabag, Atlanta, Master of None, Dear White People, all of which are masterful in capturing the farrago of human emotions through nuanced humor and deep reflection.
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Created by Fleabag mastermind Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Killing Eve is a thrilling, sexy drama about a restless agent (Sandra Oh) chasing down an unpredictable assassin (Jodie Comer) — or, as it often happens, the other way around.
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From miniseries based on real-life tragedies like HBO's "Chernobyl" and Netflix's "When They See Us," to acclaimed shows that ended their runs like "Veep" and "Fleabag," 2019 has delivered well-reviewed shows from the start.
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The creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge has been busy in that time, launching the hit thriller "Killing Eve" and reviving the stage version of "Fleabag" for Off Broadway audiences, but the wait is finally over.
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She flails her way through a life that seems to consist of one bizarre disaster after another: Fleabag finds the perfect guy, but he's a priest; she attends a family reunion where multiple bloody noses ensue.
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That's attributable in part to the off-kilter writing courtesy of Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who created and starred in the wonderfully dark and comic series "Fleabag," creating a strange link between Oh's analyst and her quarry.
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The Hot Priest has been memed to death by now, but his character sparked a million sexy fires on the strength of his gentleness and listening skills (and, in the words of Fleabag, his beautiful neck).
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" Streaming platforms have revised that model further: eight-episode seasons of Netflix's "Stranger Things" and Disney Plus's "The Mandalorian"; six-episode seasons of Amazon Prime Video's "Fleabag"; three- and six-episode batches of Netflix's "Black Mirror.
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Grammy Award-nominee Lizzo was recently spotted volunteering at a food bank in Melbourne, and "Fleabag" actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge said she&aposll auction her 2020 Golden Globes outfit to raise money for the disaster relief.
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In addition to Waller-Bridge's awards, "Fleabag" won the awards for best comedy series, best single-camera picture editing for a comedy series, best directing for a comedy series and best casting for a comedy series.
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From Fleabag to Full Frontal With Samantha Bee and everything in between, here are all the series you need to know for the Emmys, where to find them, and why you need them in your life.
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From Fleabag to Succession to When They See Us, it has been an outstanding year for television, and there's a lot to celebrate (and a lot not to celebrate, too) about 2019's Emmy nominee lineup.
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That last scene turns into a graphic three-way that feels like what would happen in a Phoebe Waller-Bridge remake of "Ghost" — there are times when "Dust" feels a bit like "Fleabag" in the afterlife.
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If Phoebe Waller-Bridge's widely loved "Fleabag" -- which only days ago got the very rare Obama seal of approval -- hadn't won best TV comedy, women-created stories would have been completely absent from the awards show.
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Fresh off the wild success of Fleabag, Waller-Bridge's massive new Amazon Studios deal involves creating new television shows and content for the streaming site, which will exclusively premiere on Amazon Prime Video, according to Variety.
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Maisel Julia Louis-Dreyfus — Veep Natasha Lyonne — Russian Doll Catherine O'Hara — Schitt's Creek Phoebe Waller-Bridge — Fleabag Stephen Root — Barry Henry Winkler — Barry Anthony Carrigan — Barry Alan Arkin — The Kominsky Method Tony Shalhoub — The Marvelous Mrs.
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The show's first season was an adaptation of Waller-Bridge's one-woman show, also titled Fleabag, and it told a full and complete story about Fleabag's dead friend, Boo, and didn't particularly call for another season.
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Fleabag's so-wrong-it's-perfect pairing took a funny idea on paper — of course Fleabag would want to fuck a Catholic priest — and turned it into the most devastating, delicately observed onscreen romance of the year.
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I'm going to watch Killing Eve when it returns, and Season 2 of Fleabag — which writer and star Waller-Bridge set aside Killing Eve to work on — as soon as it hits Amazon Prime on May 17.
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While you may never be able to explain your overwhelming thirst for, say, the priest in Fleabag or Kristen Stewart, when it comes to the actual physiological sensation of thirst, usually there's a logical explanation for it.
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For one thing, both characters are a living, breathing examination of how to move past trauma and tragedy — though Dolores has tragedy foisted upon her again and again, while Fleabag bears a hand in creating her own.
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The movie stars Dean-Charles Chapman (who played King Tommen on "Game of Thrones") along with George MacKay ("Captain Fantastic"), Benedict Cumberbatch ("Doctor Strange"), Richard Madden (Robb Stark on "Game of Thrones"), Andrew Scott ("Fleabag"), and more.
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Fleabag's father (Bill Paterson) tries to keep the peace between his wife and daughters, but his hopes for harmony among them are dashed at Godmother's "Sexhibition," an art show at which Fleabag is pressured into serving drinks.
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" Nonhuman figures on display include the Wookiee Chewbacca, who reveals that he's 190 years old ("You look great!" says Han), and Lando's droid co-pilot L3-37, voiced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge of the British sitcom "Fleabag.
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge: The Emmy-winning actor, writer and producer behind "Fleabag" dishes on the time she got in trouble for reading a book, what she'd say to William Shakespeare if she had the chance, and more.
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Four awards, including best comedy, for Amazon Prime Video's nervy, dirty, brainy "Fleabag," rather than a valedictory send-off for a routine final season of HBO's "Veep," was the most exciting and significant development of the night.
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Amazon Studios doesn't share viewership data, but both the first and second seasons of "Fleabag," which The New York Times described as "a sex comedy that is secretly a tragedy," have a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Amazon's "Fleabag," meanwhile, mirrored its success at the Emmys, snagging comedy series gold and an individual award for star-producer-creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who thanked President Obama for putting the show on his list of favorites.
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Directed by Cary Fukunaga (season one of True Detective) and co-scripted by Fleabag shining star Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the movie will see a retired Bond come back into service after a dangerous enemy enters the fold.
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Orange Is the New Black The Knick Game of Thrones Atlanta Penny Dreadful Fleabag Pose Westworld The Leftovers Sharp Objects Killing Eve Broad City Key & Peele Insecure Mr. Robot Years and Years Veep The Americans Twin Peaks
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Created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who is having quite a moment as an actress (she stars in her other series, "Fleabag") and creative force, "Killing Eve" features some genuinely shocking moments, thanks largely to Villanelle's mercurial nature.
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Maisel Kirsten Dunst, On Becoming a God in Central Florida Natasha Lyonne, Russian Doll Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag Kaitlyn Dever, Unbelievable Joey King, The Act Helen Mirren, Catherine the Great Merritt Weaver, Unbelievable Michelle Williams, Fosse/Verdon Alan Arkin, The Kominsky Method Kieran Culkin, Succession Andrew Scott, Fleabag Stellan Skarsgard, Chernobyl Henry Winkler, Barry Patricia Arquette, The Act Helena Bonham Carter, The Crown Toni Collette Meryl Streep, Big Little Lies Emily Watson, Chernobyl The 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony will air live on NBC from the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles on Sunday, Jan.
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Waller-Bridge — who, as an actress, stars in Fleabag and last year appeared in Star Wars: A Solo Story — opened up to the Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast about her new job writing the next James Bond film.
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To adapt the material, Woodward Gentle thought of Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the writer-actor whose one-woman show Fleabag had created a huge stir at the Edinburgh festival in 2013, and then at the Soho Theatre in London.
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Fleabag insists she's a die-hard atheist and has no interest in his promises of salvation — "Don't make me an optimist; it'll ruin my life" — but by Episode 4 he manages to con her into a confessional booth.
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And amid all of these wonderful human characters, there's Lando's droid, L3-37 (Fleabag star and Killing Eve creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge), one of the more unique, hilarious, and touching characters Star Wars has seen in some time.
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In the first season, when Fleabag and Claire attend a feminist lecture, she explains that her father has paid for a series of them since their mother died because he had no idea how to handle the situation.
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Like the eponymous Fleabag, he breaks the fourth wall to give us occasional background and insight, but it's only a distraction between taking care of an aunt with multiple sclerosis and the lingering trauma of his mother's suicide.
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But that being said, Prime Video has much to offer and has quietly evolved into a premiere streaming service in and of itself, with top-notch originals such as Fleabag, Good Omens, and an impressive library of films.
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When asked if there was any room for Waller-Bridge to change her mind about bringing Fleabag back, Salke said she "dream[s] of wiggle room" and would leap at the possibility of another season of the show.
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The series' directors use very precise, locked-down framing to make viewers constantly aware that Fleabag is in control of her story, even when she's not, because this is the way she's choosing to present it to us.
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If you haven't heard by now: A thirst pandemic recently took hold of straight women on social media over the Hot Priest in Fleabag, aka the lead character's latest love interest—and new crown prince of Thirst Twitter.
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Although she's a millennial woman carving her way through an alienating urban environment, Fleabag has little in common with other recent characters in this mode, from Girls' mopey Hannah Horvath to the street-smart pratfallers of Broad City.
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Even so, I'll be there in an instant if Waller-Bridge decides, in a few decades' time, that it would be fun to see what Fleabag looks like in her 40s, in her 50s, in her 60s, etc.
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It was originally set for release in November 2019, then pushed back to February and again to April as director Cary Joji Fukunaga replaced Danny Boyle and "Fleabag" creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge came on to polish the script.
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Quick tip: if you want to have the same inexplicable allure as the Hot Priest, active listening — and maybe sharing a couple cans of gin and tonic — are the way to most people's hearts, and Fleabag proved it.
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Along with its Outstanding Comedy Series win, Fleabag took home the Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series and Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series awards, and Waller-Bridge nabbed the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series honor.
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And for the cast, it's got Tina Fey and Dev Patel and Anne Hathaway, but fellow "Ozark" fans will welcome Julia Garner (your friend "Ruth"), and "Fleabag" and "Sherlock" fans will definitely be happy to see Andrew Scott.
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While she was directly referring to the list of his favorite films and television shows, she also referenced the "Fleabag" scene in which Waller-Bridge&aposs character masturbates to a video of one of Obama&aposs political speeches.
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Fleabag is a mess — but a different kind of mess than we're used to seeing on TV. And her need to *stares directly at camera* just get through it all is the most relatable thing about her. —S.
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One of Waller-Bridge's big moments came during this year's Emmy Awards, where Fleabag won for Outstanding Comedy Series, and Waller-Bridge won for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
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"Fleabag" appears at the crest of a years-long wave of bad-girl comedy on cable; it's both a welcome phenomenon and one that, for viewers trying to choose new shows, can feel like an embarrassment of bitches.
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For many of the women who believe they can fuck their problems away, Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag was the first time we saw our deepest, darkest inner monologues spoken directly into a camera with no hint of shame.
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Throughout the first season of the beautifully candid British comedy, the woman known only as "Fleabag" (played by show creator and writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge) makes herself known by letting us into the darkest, weirdest corners of her mind.
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Bzzt. Right on cue, there's the buzzer, and even though she plays it cool with the impossibly attractive man on the other side of the door, we've already seen past that facade to the nervous, though excited, Fleabag underneath.
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Waller-Bridge, meanwhile, plays a very real, very human, very damaged young woman called Fleabag, who is attempting to move on from a dark event in her past by deflecting anything approaching real emotion with sarcasm and snide jokes.
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"Back to Life" has drawn comparisons to the Emmy-winning "Fleabag," another six-episode British comedy with a female creator, writer and star, a raunchy vocabulary and an initial season haunted by a shameful incident in its protagonist's past.
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This series, which Haggard created and helped write, has already drawn comparisons to "Fleabag" — another female-led British show that shares the executive producers Harry and Jack Williams and has a similar focus on dark humor, grief and redemption.
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge created and starred in two shows this year: The brilliant, dirty and devastating "Fleabag," a comedy about a grieving and detached woman, and this, a more traditional ensemble series, though still with a dark emotional recklessness.
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But earlier this month, before the final round of "Fleabag" had landed on American shores, Scott — despite villainous turns as Moriarty opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in "Sherlock" and C opposite Daniel Craig in "Spectre" — walked through New York virtually unrecognized.
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In Paddy Considine's "Tyrannosaur," she played a meekly religious, abused wife; in "Fleabag" a hilariously poisonous stepmother; in "Run," a tough-as-nails inner city mother; in "Broadchurch" she was an often tearful, often irritable, willfully unglamorous police officer.
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Just as the fervor was dying down, on May 2, Waller-Bridge announced a revival of her original "Fleabag" stage show in the West End of London, after a run at the SoHo Playhouse in New York last month.
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Unless, that is, British comedian Phoebe Waller-Bridge can pull off an upset with one or both of her buzzy shows - female-driven BBC America thriller "Killing Eve" and Amazon comedy "Fleabag," which drew 20 Emmy nominations between them.
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Maisel") Kirsten Dunst ("On Becoming a God in Central Florida") Natasha Lyonne ("Russian Doll") Phoebe Waller-Bridge ("Fleabag") Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series -- Drama Brian Cox ("Succession") Kit Harington ("Game of Thrones") Rami Malek ("Mr.
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Then, there are the shows nominated for Emmys in 2019 which range from the expected (Game of Thrones, Veep), to the delightfully shocking (Schitt's Creek, Fleabag), with some seriously upsetting snubs left off the list (Richard Madden in Bodyguard!).
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If you're the person who can't stop raving about how Charlize Theron transformed into Megyn Kelly for Bombshell or how deliciously brilliant the whole cast of Fleabag is, this is the one you'll really want to tune in for.
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Importing such shows was once largely the province of PBS, but now Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime are full of series licensed from or made in partnership with studios from Britain ("Fleabag"), Spain ("Money Heist") and Scandinavia ("The Bridge").
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Importing such shows was once largely the province of PBS, but now Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime are full of series licensed from or made in partnership with studios from Britain ("Fleabag"), Spain ("Money Heist") and Scandinavia ("The Bridge").
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WHEN MS. WALLER-BRIDGE leaves the Soho theater, she will fold herself into a cab and go put the final touches on the second season of the television "Fleabag," a project that she passionately did not want to do.
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We may not be getting a woman James Bond any time soon (sigh), but at least Killing Eve and Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge is making sure that the ladies of the 007 universe are treated like actual human beings.
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"Smithereens" is essentially a tense hostage standoff, involving a cab driver (Andrew Scott, currently seen in "Fleabag") who harbors a grudge against a major tech company that sure sounds a lot like Facebook, for reasons that will eventually become clear.
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Thanks to Waller-Bridge's empathetic wit, Fleabag manages to find humor in just about any situation, from adventures in dating to family obligations to just trying to cope — even though all she wants to do is cry and break things.
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Fleabag and Claire's shared story ends up being the series' biggest and best surprise, especially since Waller-Bridge and Clifford are so good at playing the kind of reluctant affection that very different siblings tend to have for one another.
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At this point in time we don't quite know what fate has in store for their characters in Fleabag but what a treat it is to know that they'll be in the mix for our second helping of bleak, hilarious chaos.
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To try to remedy this, the Bond team hired Phoebe Waller-Bridge, creator and star of Fleabag and one of the creators of Killing Eve, to make edits to the script and ensure the women characters are more three-dimensional.
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Fans tuned in to watch the show's star-studded cast — which features Anne Hathaway, Dev Patel, Tina Fey, Catherine Keener and Fleabag "Hot Priest" Andrew Scott, among others — but viewers stayed for the show's romantically honest portrayal of 21st-century relationships.
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The show follows an unfiltered, dry-witted woman (who we know only as Fleabag) who hurls herself at modern living in London as she deals with the loss of her best friend, a breakup, and financial troubles at her café.
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The other series are spiritual kin as well, with the star in each case serving as the producer: "Atlanta," a wonderfully droll effort from "Community's" Donald Glover; and "Fleabag," a British import that introduces Phoebe Waller-Bridge as a major talent.
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The acclaimed writer and star of "Fleabag"—the first season of which enjoys a 100% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes—has now penned "Killing Eve" and the drama turns on the experiences of (and tussle between) two smart, career-minded women.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Sci-fi series "Black Mirror" will begin a fifth season of technology-fueled paranoia from June 5, Netflix announced on Wednesday, with a cast including pop singer Miley Cyrus, "Avengers" actor Anthony Mackie and "Fleabag" star Andrew Scott.
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It's difficult to really comprehend how radical a character she was now that we have so many messy, imperfect, selfish women to look up to—Fleabag, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's Dee and Arrested Development's Lindsay, to name just three.
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Fleabag has a café that she can't afford to keep operating; a weepy boyfriend (Hugh Skinner) she continually torments by doing things like masturbating to Barack Obama speeches; a deadpan, disapproving upper-class family; and a recently deceased best friend.
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Her bank manager (Hugh Dennis), who appeared in a couple of installments (including a memorable trip to a meditation retreat), rolls up in his car and asks if she's O.K. She's not, but he gently reminds Fleabag that everyone makes mistakes.
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The second season of "Fleabag," Phoebe Waller-Bridge's irreverent dive into grief, alcohol and fornication, had debuted in March in Britain — and turned Scott into a pulse-quickening, knee-weakening sensation who became known among fans as the Hot Priest.
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LONDON — In the first episode of season two of "Fleabag," which debuts on Amazon Prime in the United States on May 22013, the heroine, played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, wears a black jumpsuit to a magnificently awful dinner with her family.
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After explaining to Kinsey — who hasn't watched Fleabag despite Fischer asking her to — that she had a life-changing epiphany while watching Season 2 and thinks it's one of the best seasons of television ever, Fischer recalled the cold open.
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I work in overdrive trying to get my burning priorities done because I am leaving at 1 to see the final performance of the one-woman play Fleabag that is taking place in London and streaming in theaters in New York.
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge was one of the big winners at the Golden Globes on Sunday night: Her series "Fleabag" took home the award for best comedy or musical series, and she won an acting award for her performance in that show.
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Update, January 5, 2020: Phoebe Waller-Bridge just won her second Golden Globe for Fleabag (Best TV Series - Musical or Comedy), and she couldn't resist showing the former president even more love for including her on his 2019 list of favorites.
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For the film's latest installment, recent Golden Globe winner Phoebe Waller-Bridge was brought in to add some of the dark, witty humor that put her and her work (which includes Fleabag and Killing Eve season one) on the map.
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" Rebecca Liu pointed out a similar trend in the "archetypal Young Millennial Woman" of Girls, Fleabag, and Sally Rooney novels, writing that this woman is "pretty, white, cisgender, and tortured enough to be interesting but not enough to be repulsive.
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After Jude Law turned tiny Speedos papal on The Young Pope, and Andrew Scott made so many people horny for Hot Priest on Fleabag, and the Hot Priest Summer meme took TikTok by storm, perhaps this is the only logical conclusion.
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Television's biggest night, also known as the 71st annual Emmy Awards, is upon us, and all of your favorite stars from screen and, uh, screen, will be there to see if the Hot Priest from Fleabag makes it across the pond.
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BARCELONA — Tras ganar este año seis premios Emmy, la serie Fleabag, escrita y protagonizada por la brillante dramaturga británica Phoebe Waller-Bridge, es la favorita para ser coronada en la ceremonia de los Globos de Oro del próximo 6 de enero.
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Maisel") Kirsten Dunst ("On Becoming a God in Central Florida") Natasha Lyonne ("Russian Doll") Phoebe Waller-Bridge ("Fleabag") - WINNER Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series -- Drama Brian Cox ("Succession") - WINNER Kit Harington ("Game of Thrones") Rami Malek ("Mr.
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But if you've been bitten by the Waller-Bridge bug, you should have also discovered the cult British show "Fleabag," which premiered its second season in the UK this Monday and launches in the United States on Amazon Prime March 17.
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Waller-Bridge is 33, and over the last few years has become one of the most powerful people in British TV. In "Fleabag," she even got to cast "the" most powerful person, recent Oscar-winner Olivia Colman, in a supporting role.
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She told the Los Angeles Times in a 2017 interview that she came up with the original idea of "Fleabag" to help out her friend Deborah Frances-White, who needed to fill a 10-minute slot at a comedy show.
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As with a show like "BoJack Horseman," the more painful themes of "Fleabag" would be difficult to absorb if it weren't for how legitimately hilarious the show is: smutty-giggly, caustic, observant about the ugliness of both sexes, and occasionally surreal.
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Luckily, a good handful of them are available on the streaming services you probably already have: The Irishman, Marriage Story, and The Crown are all Netflix originals, HBO gets you Big Little Lies and Succession, Fleabag and The Marvelous Mrs.
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Further fogging up the dis-course, writer Emmeline Cline recently published an essay on BuzzFeed in which she called dissociating a "new trend in feminism," citing Phoebe Waller-Bridge's character in Fleabag as the poster woman for a new performative nihilism.
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Following the ceremony on Sunday, the British actress, writer and producer — who took home the award for best writing for a comedy series and best actress for Fleabag — told Entertainment Tonight that the series still won't be getting a third season.
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Alan Arkin, "The Kominsky Method"Kieran Culkin, "Succession"Andrew Scott, "Fleabag"Stellan Skarsgard, "Chernobyl"Henry Winkler, "Barry"Who will win: Stellan Skarsgard, "Chernobyl"Skarsgard is nearly unrecognizable as Boris Shcherbina, who supervised the Soviet crisis management and clean up of Chernobyl.
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Almost instantly, she was enlisted to adapt "Fleabag" for TV, create and star in another sitcom, write a weirdly funny murder show, and ultimately ascend to the "Star Wars" universe, playing a mouthy droid programmed to deliver "Solo" some comic relief.
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She and Ms. Colman were first introduced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the writer and actress behind television series like "Fleabag" and "Killing Eve," while Ms. Colman was preparing for junkets for "Murder on the Orient Express" at the end of 2017.
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Throughout Phoebe Waller-Bridge's incredibly intimate and very funny series, title character Fleabag (played by Waller-Bridge) makes snarky asides to the camera, assuming that we're cheering her on and/or judging her questionable choices, just like a best friend might.
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Maisel Kirsten Dunst, On Becoming a God in Central Florida Natasha Lyonne, Russian Doll Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag **WINNER** Michelle Williams, Fosse/Verdon **WINNER** Helen Mirren, Catherine the Great Merritt Wever, Unbelievable Kaitlyn Dever, Unbelievable Joey King, The Act Christopher Abbott, Catch-22 Sacha Baron Cohen, The Spy Russell Crowe, The Loudest Voice **WINNER** Jared Harris, Chernobyl Sam Rockwell, Fosse/Verdon Alan Arkin, The Kominsky Method Kieran Culkin, Succession Andrew Scott, Fleabag Stellan Skarsgård, Chernobyl **WINNER** Henry Winkler, Barry Meryl Streep, Big Little Lies Helena Bonham Carter, The Crown Emily Watson, Chernobyl Patricia Arquette, The Act **WINNER** Toni Collette, Unbelievable
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In this series she meets a priest (played by Andrew Scott), which obviously nudges our haphazard protagonist into taking a completely different perspective on life, thus catapulting her into a load of brand new trouble in what quickly becomes Fleabag vs God.
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But the fact that Killing Eve and Fleabag and Big Little Lies and Russian Doll are mostly made by and all focus on women feels related to their repudiation of the TV landscape's muscular "let's see how far this can sprawl" tendencies.
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By breaking the fourth wall, we've seen Fleabag put her life into context in quippy asides; but now, for the first time, we see her truly reveal herself, and her darkest fears, not to an anonymous audience but to a fellow human being.
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After the success of the first season of Fleabag a few years ago, she's been busy creating Killing Eve and working on the script of the next James Bond film (Daniel Craig himself was said to have requested that she be involved).
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Tickets and a list of participating venues aren't available yet, but National Theater Live says they will go up "soon," meaning we'd all better keep obsessively refreshing the website or risk losing our shot at seeing Fleabag on stage once and for all.
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In the scene, Reeves makes a rather dramatic, slow-motion entrance as a dreamy romantic interest of Wong's character, Sasha, while the song "Sail" by American group Awolnation plays — the same song you might have heard in Phoebe Waller-Bridge's popular series Fleabag.
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Both shows want to pull the rug out from under you, but where Phoebe Waller-Bridge of "Fleabag" is happy to let you hit the floor, Daisy Haggard in "Back to Life" is more inclined to catch you and set you down gently.
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At once a joyful watch and a morally destabilizing one, it bears some relationship to "Fleabag," another dark British comedy driven by the narration of a deeply screwed-up individual, plotted so that its more compassionate themes come as a pleasant shock.
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This television interruptus technique doesn't feel like a gimmick on Fleabag, which is a show all about spiraling down the drain of a single woman's messy interior life, but it does feel a bit forced in the context of the period piece.
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She is already moving on, to a third season of "Killing Eve," the Golden Globe-winning show she created after "Fleabag," and to writing for the 25th movie in the James Bond franchise, which is set to be released in April 2020.
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It was originally set for release in North America in November 2019, but was delayed until February, and then again to April, as Cary Joji Fukunaga replaced Danny Boyle as director, and "Fleabag" creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge came on to polish the script.
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In her opening monologue, Waller-Bridge extended the victory lap that started two weeks ago at the Emmy Awards, where she won the trophies for lead actress in a comedy and writing for a comedy series and "Fleabag" was named outstanding comedy series.
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Ms. Jones is best known for having directed "Fleabag," Phoebe Waller-Bridge's one-woman stage comedy about sexual identity and grief, which became the basis for the popular breakthrough television series of the same name (which if you haven't seen, you must).
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Talk to any Fleabag fan and you'll know they connected with it on a deep, emotional level, yet we never have to air our own baggage in all its dirty detail when we have our cheeky, wall-breaking antiheroine to talk to instead.
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In another scene, Fleabag gets into a bubble-filled bathtub with a gorgeous pickup, who is intent on them getting to know each other via a deep-talk Q. and A. "When did you realize you were so good-looking?" she asks him.
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Even the props are well cast: when Fleabag steals a gold statue of a headless woman, the statue transforms into a symbol of something—power, weakness, creativity, money, family secrets, you name it—and gets passed hand to hand, a lubricious hot potato.
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Where to watch: Hulu Season 2, episode 4 Fleabag confesses to a life that doesn't follow God's apparent laws — the sex, the blasphemy, but never explicitly her darkest secret, that she slept with her best friend's boyfriend and feels like she caused Boo's death.
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Today, the second season of the hit British comedy Fleabag arrives on Amazon Prime Video in U.S. In addition to introducing us to a hot priest with unclear intentions, the show's return also brings with it a new drink obsession, the canned gin and tonic.
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After a comical but terribly bleak sequence of fuckups in season one, Fleabag finally has her shit together: She's stopped using sex with men to fill the void in her heart, her business is surprisingly successful, and she's patching up old wounds with her family.
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Please, just watch, via BBC: We've known Waller-Bridge has some kind of deep connection with the ukulele ever since one popped up over and over in her original Fleabag monologue, but now, finally, we get to watch her shred the uke in person.
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In the same month that Avengers: Endgame arguably stuck the landing and Game of Thrones ... will end, one way or another, Amazon airs the second and final season of Fleabag, a master class in character, emotion, and how to end a story with enviable magnificence.
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We learn about the sisterly bond between our protagonist and her best friend over the course of the series' six-episode first season, and halfway through that we learn that Fleabag still calls Boo's cell phone during tough times just to hear her friend's voice.
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In that moment, I myself had the Fleabag-ish turn-to-camera realization that Hot Priest was experiencing what I did before I came out: the earth-shattering feeling of realizing you love someone you've been told your whole life that you're not supposed to.
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Much of "Fleabag" the play was recycled in the television show's first season, which gave animate form to people described in the monologue by a cast that includes, if you please, Olivia Colman (and for the new season, Fiona Shaw and Kristin Scott Thomas).
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In the second and final season, set a year after the first, Fleabag (we never learn her real name) starts seeing a counselor (Fiona Shaw, who appears in Waller-Bridge's other wildly popular show, "Killing Eve") and falls for a "hot priest" (Andrew Scott).
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The actress, 34, was also nominated in 2018 for her writing on Killing Eve, which stars Sandra Oh. Waller-Bridge was nominated for Killing Eve again this year, as well as for outstanding comedy series and outstanding writing for a comedy series for Fleabag.
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If you were too busy watching Phoebe Waller-Bridge win again and again and again on Sunday night for her incredible show Fleabag (and rightly so!), then you may have missed some equally compelling moments with other Emmys winners and hopefuls happening on Instagram.
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She wove her deliriously smutty preoccupations, along with a wallop of rage, into "Fleabag," a show at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe that, once she hit her 30s, she spun off into this series about a sexually rapacious, anger-riddled, flailing London cafe owner.
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She's emerged at the end of 2019 as one of the biggest names in TV, having worked on the script for the upcoming James Bond film, started on a brand-new HBO show, hosted Saturday Night Live, and won big at the Emmys for Fleabag.
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One might see the role as a waste of Colman's innate spark and sly charm (a skill she also deploys as the villainous stepmother in Fleabag), but it is also a testament to her ability to hold back and do a lot with a little.
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Though she conceived "Crashing" in her early 20s, it did not air until she was 30 years old, just months before "Fleabag" hit TV. By anyone else's standards, it was a remarkable television debut, but for her, backward motion is a kind of torture.
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But what Oh, Comer, and creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge — the acidic wit behind Fleabag, another show worth watching immediately — do with Luke Jennings's series of novellas makes for an extraordinarily slick take on the thriller that proves impossible to shake once the credits roll.
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Maisel Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep Natasha Lyonne, Russian Doll Catherine O'Hara, Schitt's Creek Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag Anthony Anderson, black-ish Don Cheadle, Black Monday Ted Danson, The Good Place Michael Douglas, The Kominsky Method Bill Hader, Barry Eugene Levy, Schitt's Creek Alex Borstein, The Marvelous Mrs.
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Ms. Colman and Mr. Paterson are at the top rank of British character actors, and Ms. Colman is especially good here as an artist who, through manipulation, arrogance and actual talent, has negotiated life in a way that Fleabag despises and wishes, helplessly, that she could emulate.
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Maisel"Kate McKinnon, "Saturday Night Live"Olivia Colman's Oscar win earlier this year made for one of the most memorable speeches of the night, and we think voters are likely to reward her for the pitch-perfect performance she delivers on the final season of "Fleabag.
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Similarly, season two initially feels as though the talking-to-the-camera thing is a crutch that Fleabag relies on, having outlived its usefulness now that its title character has started to properly grieve her dead friend Boo and the role she played in Boo's death.
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Co-created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the genius behind "Fleabag" (whose second season débuts in May), it features two wildly watchable performances: those of Sandra Oh, as the workaholic intelligence officer Eve, and Jodie Comer, as the girlish sociopath Villanelle, each the object of the other's obsession.
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The encounter happened during a particularly high time for the writer, director, and actress, who recently won two Emmys, a Critics Choice Award, a SAG Award, and a Golden Globe — all for her work on the BBC comedy-drama Fleabag, which she wrote, directed, and starred in.
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge took home the Golden Globe for best actress in a comedy or musical TV series at the awards show in Beverly Hills on Sunday for her role in Amazon&aposs "Fleabag," adding to a bevy of awards for the series she also created.
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Claire from 'Bon Appetit' takes on her hardest challenge yet: Gourmet Sour Patch Kids Seth Meyers calls out Republicans' hypocrisy on trusting the CIA and FBI Alicia Vikander is haunting in Netflix's 'Earthquake Bird' trailer Andrew Scott shares his thoughts on being dubbed Hot Priest from 'Fleabag'
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Shows like Pose (FX) and Euphoria (HBO) are providing a platform for trans and non-binary actors to tell their own stories, while others like Insecure (HBO), Killing Eve (BBC America), Shrill (Hulu), and Fleabag (Amazon) are giving voice to a full spectrum of women's experiences.
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From Phoebe Waller-Bridge's equally hilarious and cheeky win for writing to her truly gobsmacked response to her second statue for acting, to Harry Bradbeer's win for direction and then the big win for in Outstanding Comedy Series... Fleabag Season 2 deserves every accolade it gets forever.
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When we meet her, she's mourning the death of both her mother and — as she reveals in a gut punch of a flashback at the end of the first episode — her best friend, whom we learn more and more about as Fleabag struggles to understand her accidental suicide.
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Like all real, flesh-and-blood relationships, theirs is one in which power and control is not wielded and bestowed in equal measure; the priest and Fleabag wrestle with each other's desires, but they're equals in their doomed love, in their desperate want for meaning — for something more.
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The female body is a nexus of pain almost by design (that by-now ubiquitous line from Fleabag: "women are born with pain built in, it's our physical destiny"), but it is also potentially monstrous—an object traditionally subjugated, both for its presumed weakness and its perceived threat.
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Waller-Bridge has said that she believes Fleabag season two will be her last outing playing the character, and it's this sudden bit of self-realization that marks just how hard it will be for both the character and the show to ever return to this particular well.
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The sixth and final episode of Fleabag season two — and probably the series overall — is packed with wisdom and an exact sense of where to leave a story so the audience aches for more, even as they realize that to extend the story would be extraneous and unnecessary.
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The first season was a transgressive, smutty tour de force, its self-destructive, chatty protagonist propelling us through sexual adventures, familial passive-aggression and the gradual revelation of her secret torment: the death of her best friend (Jenny Rainsford), who stepped into traffic after Fleabag slept with her boyfriend.
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In the dramedy "Fleabag," her comedy assumed the form of a sex-addicted London cafe owner (played by Waller-Bridge herself) who was mourning the death of her best friend; in "Killing Eve," she channeled it through a cop hunting the psychopathic killer who was hunting her back.
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Throughout the two seasons, Fleabag learns life lessons (usually the hard way, and usually with some hilarious vulgarity), and finds ways to deal with strained relationships with her future step-mom played by Olivia Colman, her sister played by the incredible Sian Clifford, and the memory of Boo.
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Amazon has also taken on Netflix by inking big overall TV deals with the likes of "Westworld" creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy; "Fleabag" creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge; "One Day at a Time" creator Gloria Calderón Kellett; and "Master of None" writer and "The Chi" creator Lena Waithe.
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If you don't watch Phoebe Waller-Bridge's pitch-black Amazon comedy, you're probably tired that most of 2019 has been dominated by it yet still know the perilous significance of when the Priest (Andrew Scott) catches Fleabag (Waller-Bridge) breaking the fourth wall to talk to the audience.
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All she knows is that when she brings "Fleabag" to New York, for a six-week run in a 178-seat theater that is nearly sold out, it will be to say goodbye to the character, and to put a punctuation mark on this phase of her life.
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It's all about 🧡👉 Phoebe Waller-Bridge 👈🧡 We've only gone and devoted an ENTIRE EPISODE of Woman's Hour to the award-winning writer and creator of Fleabag ☝️🙌 ✨ Phoebe joins Jenni Murray for an in-depth interview to talk all things Fleabag: from religion and sexual fluidity to the relationship between feminism and "bigger tits" 🍈🍈 plus a mention or two of the 'Hot Priest' 💓 She also tells us about the appeal of Killing Eve's Villanelle and writing about women and violence🩸 what it was like on the set of the new Bond film and why it's Phoebe's friends who are the greatest love story of her life 💘💘.
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But the most searing moments of Fleabag — not to mention the ones that motivated me to watch all six episodes of season one when I was only planning to check out the premiere — come courtesy of Fleabag's sex life, and how it connects to her approach to just about everything else.
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PWB's character, Fleabag, is at dinner with her sister Claire, who hasn't spoken to her in a year, her sister's awful husband Martin, her father, her father's fiancée (played by the canonically lesbian Olivia Colman), and the Hot Priest, who is set to officiate the wedding of her dad and stepmother.
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And, as summer has drawn to a close, a clutch of new comedies has arrived ahead of the fall season — "Atlanta" and "Better Things" on FX, "Fleabag" and "One Mississippi" on Amazon and "High Maintenance" on HBO — that promises to be more distinctive and thought-provoking than autumn's offerings ("Transparent" notwithstanding).
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One night, when they have to share a bed in a fleabag motel room and Biden can't fall asleep, he makes Obama play "POTUS, SCOTUS or FLOTUS," a game that involves naming three female politicians and picking which one you would elect president, nominate for the Supreme Court or marry.
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Chance the Rapper has the best damn time on James Corden's 'Carpool Karaoke' Stephen Colbert mocks 'officially bitchy' White House letter refusing to cooperate with impeachment inquiry Lizzo's 'Truth Hurts' gets a Microsoft Paint music video and it's perfect Andrew Scott shares his thoughts on being dubbed Hot Priest from 'Fleabag'
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One could even trace The Mary Tyler Moore Show's lineage of liberated, unapologetic, and flawed women characters straight through to Girls and Fleabag (Lena Dunham called Moore a "profound influence" after she died in 2017), though Mary Richards herself would likely be shocked by her cable- and streaming-era descendants.
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Maisel The Politician Big Little Lies The Crown Killing Eve The Morning Show Succession Catch-22 Chernobyl Fosse/Verdon The Loudest Voice Unbelievable Christina Applegate, Dead to Me Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag Natasha Lyonne, Russian Doll Kirsten Dunst, On Becoming a God in Central Florida Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs.
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge isn't going to give us a third season of Fleabag, or a chance to see her perform her one-woman show after her London run ends next month, or even to see a filmed version of the stage show since it's only screening in U.K. and Canada.
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As archetypes go, the softboi has drifted somewhat of late, but I was reminded of him earlier this year when the show Fleabag came to a close with a bus stop, a martyred heart, and the priest who, over the course of six elegant episodes, gradually revealed himself to be a model softboi.
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Spy thrillers almost never cast women as both the cat and the mouse, and this one also features an equally rare female presence behind the camera: The English writer and actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who created and starred in the pitch-black comedy "Fleabag," is the series's lead writer, showrunner and executive producer.
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When Phoebe Waller-Bridge walked off with a fistful of Emmy Awards this year for her widely acclaimed comedy "Fleabag," it was the culmination of 10 years of spectacular accomplishment for multi-talented women in the television business, many of whom not only created shows, but also starred in or directed them.
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Pivoting around Andrew Scott (Fleabag, Sherlock) as a social media user whose behavior escalates from "jaded" to "renegade," the episode blatantly apes the extremities of our current technological age, from untrustworthy Uber drivers to heinously unfeeling Facebook policies to Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey being ... well, just being Jack Dorsey.
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"It's just really wonderful to know, and reassuring, that a dirty, pervy, angry, messed up woman can make it to the Emmys," Waller-Bridge, 22015, said onstage in September, accepting the first of three Emmys that night for her cutting, filter-free tragicomedy "Fleabag," which began in 250 as a one-woman show.
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Girls, Fleabag, and Crazy Ex Girlfriend follow the chaotic lives of (mainly middle-class white) young women with personality disorders; End of the F***ing World and 13 Reasons Why take radically different but equally intense approaches to teen trauma; This is Us, Mr. Robot, and Homeland are underpinned by anxiety, dissociation, and bipolar respectively.
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I love this exchange because it feels like a friendly wink, as if Nora Ephron, who wrote the script, is smirking with women in the audience a la Fleabag, commiserating about all the times we've smiled through the pain as a man asked us about our job, only to interrupt to talk about himself.
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The reason that almost all of the most acclaimed shows of 2019 so far — from Russian Doll to Fleabag, from Pen15 to Ramy — have been half-hour shows is that half-hour shows are still slightly less beholden to the "serialize at all costs" idea that has become unfortunately synonymous with prestigious TV drama.
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Over six episodes, Fleabag, the proprietor of a failing cafe, applies for a business loan, clashes with her politely hideous stepmother (a hilarious Olivia Colman), does a love-hate dance with her seemingly more put-together older sister (Sian Clifford, who's dour perfection), and juggles a buffoonish boyfriend and a good-looking, sexually eager hookup.
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While Borstein's performance in "Maisel" was solid, she already received an Emmy award for her role on the show at the 2018 Emmys, which makes her win this year a little tired — especially considering that Colman's turn as the stepmother in "Fleabag" (which deserved all of the awards it received) was so hilariously infuriating.
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In the past, Mr. Icke has been drawn to better-known plays: "Hamlet," for one, which he turned into a CCTV-intensive star vehicle for Andrew Scott, now famous as "the hot priest" from "Fleabag," and two especially brilliant productions, "Uncle Vanya" and "The Wild Duck," which upended our expectations of Chekhov and Ibsen, respectively.
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In any case, younger viewers will likely not recognize Ms. Scott Thomas from her Polanski history and "Bitter Moon," but rather from "Fleabag," in which she plays the successful businesswoman Belinda, who, cocktail in hand, delivers a much-tweeted speech about women being born "with pain built in," before turning down Fleabag's sexual advances.
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Yet at the same time, the fawning press brings to mind a recent essay about the way art featuring complex, even supposedly unlikable straight white women artists and characters — like Lena Dunham's Girls or Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag — gets praised and universalized as representing larger truths about an entire generation in a way that is ultimately reductive.
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There's been an explosion of acclaimed half-hour dramedies like Girls and Insecure, Transparent and Search Party, Chewing Gum and Fleabag, GLOW and Better Things, SMILF and Vida, that have been all the better for their more intimate scale, and prove that you don't need to signal grand, sweeping ambitions to tackle some grand, sweeping themes.
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So much of whatever season three is trying to convey is buried in its subtext, to the degree that when June flicked her eyes toward the camera like she was Fleabag early in this episode, I found myself genuinely hoping she would do some Explaining of the Theme, like it was season one all over again.
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Here's the short version: Best New Series to Take a Chance On Jenna's picks: "Pitch" and "Fleabag" Wesley's pick: "Designated Survivor" Best New Show to Cry To Jenna's pick: "This Is Us" Wesley's pick: "Transparent" The Show You Can Press Pause On Jenna's pick: "Westworld" (with a catch) Wesley decided to take it up a notch.
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The character is constantly aware of two levels of reality — the characters she's hanging out with as well as all of us in the audience — and Waller-Bridge plays this awareness a little like Fleabag is constantly distracted by something, like we're the phone screen she can't quite look away from, even though she's talking to somebody else.
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Maisel The Politician WINNER: Chernobyl Catch-22 Fosse/Verdon The Loudest Voice Unbelievable WINNER: Brian Cox, Succession Kit Harington, Game of Thrones Rami Malek, Mr. Robot Tobias Menzies, The Crown Billy Porter, Pose WINNER: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag Natasha Lyonne, Russian Doll Kirsten Dunst, On Becoming a God in Central Florida Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs.
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Colman's character, at her most villainous, trills enthusiastically about destroying the old world's sexual hang-ups (notably, when she's forcing Fleabag to stare at a homemade sculpture of her father's penis.) In turn, our anti-heroine narrates her own way through a series of soul-destroying superficial liaisons, big on comedy body parts, short on love.
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But when modern, ingenious shows like The Bisexual and Fleabag have had me falling in love with their messy millennial protagonists in the matter of one or two twentysomething-minute episodes, I'm bummed that three nearly hourlong ones here haven't sold me on the young queer people of GQ, whose generation is supposed to reflect my own.
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"Fleabag" (which originally aired on the BBC but was co-produced and streamed internationally by Amazon) did particularly well, winning the big award for Comedy Series, as well as additional awards for Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Phoebe Waller-Bridge, pictured above), Writing for a Comedy Series (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) and Directing for a Comedy Series (Harry Bradbeer).
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Maisel Kirsten Dunst — On Becoming a God in Central Florida Natasha Lyonne — Russian Doll Phoebe Waller-Bridge — Fleabag Kaitlyn Dever — Unbelievable Joey King — The Act Helen Mirren — Catherine the Great Merritt Wever — Unbelievable Michelle Williams — Fosse/Verdon Patricia Arquette — The Act Helena Bonham Carter — The Crown Toni Collette — Unbelievable Meryl Streep — Big Little Lies Emily Watson — Chernobyl Brian Cox — Succession Kit Harington — Game of Thrones Rami Malek — Mr. Robot Tobias Menzies — The Crown Billy Porter — Pose Michael Douglas — The Kominsky Method Bill Hader — Barry Ben Platt — The Politician Paul Rudd — Living With Yourself Ramy Youssef — Ramy Christopher Abbott — Catch-22 Sacha Baron Cohen — The Spy Russell Crowe — The Loudest Voice Jared Harris — Chernobyl Sam Rockwell — Fosse/Verdon Alan Arkin — The Kominsky Method Kieran Culkin — Succession Andrew Scott — Fleabag Stellan Skarsgard — Chernobyl Henry Winkler — Barry
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Black Mirror Season 5 Episode 1: "Smithereens" Cast: Andrew Scott, Damson Idris, Topher Grace The first episode, titled "Smithereens," centers around Andrew Scott (you probably know him as Jim Moriarty from BBC's Sherlock or, more recently, the Hot Priest in Fleabag season 2), an unstable ride-share driver who, despite listening to relaxation and self-help podcasts, can't seem to control his anger.
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Completely relinquishing your power, if only for a moment — putting your whole self, body and soul, into someone else's hands — can be so intoxicating in a world where we're paradoxically stymied by infinite choices (as Fleabag says: what to wear, what to buy, what to believe) and made terrifyingly aware that our individual human choices don't really matter in the end.
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People with clits have spent way too many years trying to get people without clits to pay attention to them to see them erased from the discourse this way.) One for all the Fleabag/Hot Priest fans out there, the figure on their knees (available in man, woman and gender-neutral variations) is worth a thousand words — or just one.
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Beyond the two HBO behemoths, various other shows garnered numerous nominations within the same category, including "Barry" (three of six supporting-actor nominations in comedy), "This Is Us" (two nominations each in actor and guest actor), "Saturday Night Live" (four out of seven slots for guest actor in comedy) and "Fleabag" (two nominations for supporting actress and two for guest actress in comedy).
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge in Fleabag Season 2 One of the signs that a TV show was genuinely serious used to be that the creator would talk about how it had all been planned out from the start, with multiple seasons mapped and the ending certain years in advance (and, for what it's worth, the creators of Russian Doll pitched their series as running a possible three seasons).
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In its poetic breadth, the series reminded me of the wonderful Kate Atkinson book " Life After Life ," in which a woman keeps on dying, for nearly a century; of " Search Party ," the terrific show about another flawed bohemian solving a New York mystery; of " Fleabag ," that stylized masterwork about a liberated woman's self-loathing; and even of " The Leftovers ," with its loopy but sincere approach to grief.
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The new James Bond movie may be called "No Time to Die," but judging by the first trailer for the film, which was co-written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge ("Killing Eve" and "Fleabag"), a more apt title might be "Time's Up." Following "Spectre" in 2015, the first post-#MeToo Bond adventure introduces Daniel Craig's character to a female fellow agent, played by Lashana Lynch ("Captain Marvel").
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" Just like Amazon Prime's TV adaptation of Fleabag, which just concluded it's second and most likely final season, Waller-Bridge tells Refinery29 that, "The thing I really wanted to get across with the series is having an audience not be told how to feel about a character; in one episode you love one character, and by the end of the next episode you might loath them.
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As Fleabag, Waller-Bridge embodies the charming naughtiness of the British tradition—she cites Michael Caine's Alfie as an influence—while forcing herself to reckon with it: Whether she's relaying Fleabag's ill-advised sexual encounters, her tense relationship with her uptight sister, or the moment when she finally comes to terms with the destruction her selfishness and laziness have wrought on her life, Waller-Bridge is the show.
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The season is densely packed with television and comedy hall of fame material; the self-contained family dinner of episode one, plotted meticulous; the tender yet devastating story of Fleabag and the Priest; cameos from Fiona Shaw and Kristin Scott Thomas; lines like "I'm very horny and your little scarf isn't helping"; and a fierce assertion, no matter how things ended, that they are never over, and will be okay.
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A la televisión pública británica (Fleabag se emite en BBC Three y en Amazon, Years and Years es de BBC One y The Virtues, de Channel 4), Canal+ Francia (L'Effondrement), la corporación paneuropea Sky (que está detrás de Gomorra y Chernóbil) o la radiotelevisión pública danesa (donde se impulsaron clásicos recientes como Borgen o Bron/Broen), hay que sumarles otras empresas audiovisuales, como las españolas Movistar+ o Mediapro.
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MaiselKirsten Dunst, On Becoming a God in Central FloridaNatasha Lyonne, Russian DollPhoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag Ramy Youssef, RamyMichael Douglas, The Kominsky MethodBill Hader, BarryBen Platt, The PoliticianPaul Rudd, Living With Yourself Patricia Arquette, The ActHelena Bonham Carter, The CrownToni Collette, UnbelievableMeryl Streep, Big Little LiesEmily Watson, Chernobyl Alan Arkin, The Kominsky MethodKieran Culkin, SuccessionAndrew Scott, FleabagStellan Skarsgård, ChernobylHenry Winkler, Barry Tom Hanks Ellen DeGeneres Vox Media has affiliate partnerships.
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But more than that, Fleabag, as portrayed by creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge, is the embodiment of a particular feeling of hurt and anxiety, when you need to do something to fill the void or just to be an asshole — like, say, stealing a statue you don't even want from a stepmother you don't like very much or dropping glass after glass of champagne on the floor to watch them shatter.
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Maisel") Marie Kondo ("Tidying Up with Marie Kondo") Michael McKean ("Better Call Saul") Mandy Moore ("This Is Us") Kumail Nanjiani ("The Twilight Zone") Chris O'Dowd ("State of the Union") Nick Offerman ("Making It") Punam Patel ("Special") Rosamund Pike ("State of the Union") Billy Porter ("Pose") Margaret Qualley ("Fosse/Verdon") Kevin Michael Richardson ("F Is for Family") Sam Rockwell ("Fosse/Verdon") Stephen Root ("Barry") Kristin Scott Thomas ("Fleabag") Rufus Sewell ("The Marvelous Mrs.
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With actors who are also writers, and gifted at coming up with their own material, like Atlanta creator and star Donald Glover in the role of Lando Calrissian and Fleabag creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge as an unspecified motion-capture character (which in galactic terms, that usually signals a droid or alien), the sources say Lord and Miller began straying from the script by Star Wars veteran Lawrence Kasdan and his son, Jon Kasdan (The First Time).
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In some ways, we live in a different, more progressive era where recent onscreen stories by and about women have been highly regarded: the Emmy-winning "Fleabag"; the crowd-pleasing "Hustlers," which outdid expectations at the box office and could lead Jennifer Lopez to her first Oscar nomination; "Portrait of a Lady on Fire," about a romance between two women in 18th-century France, which was nominated for the Palme d'Or, the highest prize at Cannes, this year.
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