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Critic Consensus: Fleabag jumps back into the fray with a bracing second season that upholds its predecessors' frenzied wit and delicate heart, replete with Phoebe Waller-Bridge's indefatigable charisma.
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The eponymous Fleabag returns, joining an uncomfortable family dinner to celebrate Godmother and Dad's engagement. Alongside familiar faces - uptight sister Claire and her alcoholic husband Martin - Fleabag find herself intrigued by Godmother's new priest. The evening comes to a tempestuous end, however, when an unexpected attack brings old tensions bubbling to the surface.
MoreWith Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Andrew Scott, Sian Clifford, Olivia Colman, Brett Gelman, Jenny Rainsford. A counselling session elicits an uncomfortable truth from Fleabag, and she finds herself somewhere unexpected. Elsewhere, a chat with Claire brings some unwelcome news, Martin and Fleabag face off, and Jake wonders where Claire is.
MoreWith Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Andrew Scott, Sian Clifford, Olivia Colman, Bill Paterson, Brett Gelman. BBC Three presents. Claire has a crisis and turns to Fleabag for help, whilst a familiar face makes a reappearance at the cafe. Hilary makes a friend, Martin demands answers, and Godmother and Dad's wedding hangs in the balance.
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While all six episodes are good, I want to single out the third as one of the greatest episodes of television I've ever seen.
Fleabag Season 2, which I cannot recommend highly enough, is thrillingly deep, funny, and buoyant.
The first season was always meant to stand alone. That the second... is so successfully additive and so satisfyingly final in its conclusion, feels like a minor miracle.
A portrait of grief, fear, and love that's startling, painful, achingly funny, unbearably sexy, pretty much perfect, and somehow better than the first season. It is a marvel. It should not exist.
Season 2 is a towering accomplishment, proving what many have suspected since her debut: Waller-Bridge is operating on a higher plane, and she's kind enough to take the audience along with her.
My relationship with Fleabag continues to be intense. I adore its star, who looks like a portrait by Meredith Frampton come to life, and I can never get over its emotional precision.
Watching her slowly let down that guard and welcome people in finds Fleabag at its most heartwarming and inspiring-two adjectives I never thought I would use to describe this show.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge reclaims the idea of female coping in Fleabag. It remains a mordant exploration of what comes into play when women aren't made to obsess over terminating the umbilical cord of pain.
It's one of the best seasons of TV I've seen in ages.
The second season of Fleabag perfectly builds on the rich, heartbreaking character study that Waller-Bridge created.
Audience Reviews for Fleabag: Season 2
OMG perfect. Season Two is even better than Season One! Smart, subversive, heartfelt, dangerous, biting. Phoebe Waller-Bridge is a genius.
Flea does it again. With a charmed smile and eyes that sing a million sorrows so triumphantly, she waltzes through life, stumbling and making peace with her imperfections along the way. She portrays the troubled soul so well and the priest is the perfect Moriarty to her Sherlock. Nailed it again. Would be delighted to have more of her but even if this is the end, it's one of the most satisfying and calming finales. We're all fleabags but none better or worse than the Fleabag herself.
Season 2 of Fleabag is without a doubt one of the best written series I have had the pleasure of watching. Each episode, along with the entire story arc of the season, was succinct to the point of feeling carefully curated by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. I've already rewatched it.
Grotesque. There should be a disclaimer before watching that much filth.
PW-B is an amazing talent.
Just astonishingly good - every performance perfect. Not everyone is going to like Fleabag and to such people I say please identify yourselves so that I may avoid you forever.
Quite funny, but seems a bit shallow - Fleabag constantly giving "that look" to the camera quickly wears thin. Could do with stronger, more realistic characters and some real-world problems and a bit less sarcasm, better dialogue and more genuinely funny jokes.