Fleabag

They probably did to 7 year old schoolgirls when she was first given the nickname.

... correction, it seems it was a family nickname.

maybe its my juvenile mentality but i worked that name thing out right away when I first saw the show

Ditto.

OK fine maybe I'm just dense but they still don't sound the same to me. Ppl used to call my friend Phoebe "fleabee" and that makes sense but bee and bag don't rhyme so I don't think it ever would have occurred to me.

Same here, it sounds far-fetched to me

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fleabag

Fleapit is more common I'd say, though that's generally used to describe cinemas. Or was.

she literally turns into a fleabag

I know that fleabag is a word! lol

In the US you hear it most commonly used wrt motels.

And Fleabee isn't, so if you were going to give someone called Phoebe a stupid nickname Fleabag would do the job.

I know, I know. I can see where it comes from I'm just saying that I don't think I would have made the connection on my own.

Also, I can't begin to understand how the middle classes operate but I know of middle class families where they all have stupid pet names for each other, and she is very very posh.

Great finale. The scenes with the dad were amazing, the way he managed to wring so much out of barely a single complete sentence.

That was great.

[spoilers duh!]

Surprised at no invocations of Boo, but otherwise great. LOVED the final shot.

me too. incredibly moving. i felt a real connection, it was so strange.

parasocial television

;_;

that was incredible.

That wave at the end.

So so good.

I want to go back to the dad because the social media chat is about pretty much everything else in the episode, but the scene where he's up in the loft talking about pretty much everything else than his own unresolved grief, and then when he's walking down the aisle and he can't let go of PWB because he can't let go of her mother, just slayed me. In his last scene he thanks her twice and it's clear that the second thank-you is for the mum. Just so much conveyed with a few lines that didn't get anywhere near what he was really thinking, that was brilliant.

He was really great. The whole thing was and I can't stop thinking about it. I hadn't thought of a couple things you just said. Think I need to watch it again tonight.

cant deny I was a little broken after watching the final episode.

Do we still think Godmother is vile y/n?

y

definitely

Horrible.

She's just profoundly selfish and not even humanised by the script, even Claire's husband came across better in the last episode.

Meanwhile

Is this a Pale Fire reference - gag about unreliable narrators - in Fleabag? pic.twitter.com/Dg1D2BAj9m

— Henry Hitchings (@henryhitchings) April 2, 2019

Explain? What does the graffiti say?

Charles Kinbote is the unreliable narrator in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire.

God I haven’t read that in 20 years

xp They're saying it means "Kinbote" in ref to the character in "Pale Fire" but I'm not sure you'd pronounce that word "Kinbote" (I bear correction on that of course) - it may be that it's a double joke because it looks like Kinbote to people who read Roman script but doesn't actually spell it in Cyrillic?

*eyeball roll* all narrators are unreliable.

It say “stomach” in Russian fwiw

Thank you, SV, I knew you’d be along to clarify matters.

Gelman killed it in his last scene. That role was so perfectly suited to his talents.

I was so worried Claire was going to cave. Gelman is unbelievably odious in that part.

not going to link it here but his "iBrain" story from Comedy Bang Bang is one of my favorite pieces of comedy in the last ?? years

yknow I was going to be picky and say I could have done without the CGI fox, but now with the possible revelation of the Nabokov reference I'm wondering if it wasn't intentionally wobbly as a way to underline the "unreliable narrator" aspect? this is the level she's working at, that I even entertain this theory.

CGI, really? it didn't look like it to me.

certainly looked like it to me, and this Guardian sendoff agrees

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/apr/08/farewell-fleabag-the-most-electrifying-devastating-tv-in-years

It was definitely CGI

damn Tories shot all the real ones I suppose

Apparently the graffiti also means 'life' in Bulgarian?

Which makes a bit more sense than 'stomach' in this context.

it was cg. it would be kind of shitty (not to mention not that profitable) if people kept trained foxes for their rare appearances in tv shows

very true

great show, great ending