Title: Fleabag
Release Dates: 2019
Season: 1
Number of Episodes: 6
Summary/Review:
The second season of Fleabag is even better than the first. These tightly scripted and plotted episodes tell a story of human fraility and resilience that is full of laughs and heartbreaks. The series begins a year after the first series and Fleabag has been ostracized by her family in the interim due to her actions in the first series. But the show begins with the family reunited for Dad and Godmother’s engagement dinner. Claire is still with Martin, but commuting regularly to Finland for her new job there. A sixth guest at the table is the priest who will preside over the wedding. Christened on social media as “Hot Priest” and portrayd by the excellent Andrew Scott, he has a lot of similarity to Fleabag, including the tendency to say inappropriate things out loud and drinking too much, but the good qualities as well. The main focus of the series is the friendship and the illicit romance between that grows between Flebag and Hot Priest. But the show also delves further into Fleabag’s trauma over the deaths of her mother and her best friend, Boo, as well as her efforts to repair the relationship with her surviving family. It’s an excellent, bawdy comedy that somehow also delves right into the heart of humanity and relationships.
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