Teeth guy was great, and asking for him (or the hot sex guy) to be more of a character might be the dumbest criticism of this show
― abcfsk, Friday, June 7, 2019 12:17 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yep, i agree, i think he's mostly justified by his final scene in the show, where he betrays the slightest self-awareness and then immediately tries to kill her guinea pig
the hot sex guy totally exists in reality imo
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 7 June 2019 14:08 (five years ago) link
also realism is boring etc
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 7 June 2019 14:09 (five years ago) link
yeah i mean i don't care for realism too much, a drama that has a world with its own internal logic is fine, but s1 was so deeply stupid and underwritten in almost every character/plot except a few fleabag monologues. ultimately she suffered as a character without any other meaningful characters to bounce off or be realised through, just felt a waste of time. i can see why this show is popular and i suspect i might like s2 more based on speaking to friends but a huge amount of s1 seemed to be people cheering for an easy lunge at a zeitgeist that tells them things they already believed beforehand via a couple of stick figures and gif memes posing as television.
― FernandoHierro, Thursday, June 6, 2019 3:36 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
feels like this is a criticism of thinkpieces about the show and not the show itself but there's so much distance in this post it's hard to tell
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 7 June 2019 14:10 (five years ago) link
hard to have coherent, strong opinions about a show you didn't watch.
― Yerac, Friday, 7 June 2019 14:58 (five years ago) link
i watched maybe four episodes of s1. it is possible for someone to not like something you like. possible and okay. i expected to like the show but i didn't. isn't that why we're here?
― FernandoHierro, Friday, 7 June 2019 15:07 (five years ago) link
the last ep of season one is p crucial
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 7 June 2019 15:11 (five years ago) link
i mean i generally agree that season two blows season one away but i like the way season one gradually reveals itself as a feedback loop of grief
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 7 June 2019 15:12 (five years ago) link
realism is not what I'm asking for, plausibility is.
― Shite New Answers (jed_), Friday, 7 June 2019 15:14 (five years ago) link
my only serious gripe, albeit a small one, is the total absence of Boo from the finale
― Simon H., Friday, 7 June 2019 15:53 (five years ago) link
reiterating my own point here, but I think the shallow characterization in the first season seems more intentional when you think of the point of view character being an unreliable narrator
at no point does she really take notice of anything other than surface impressions of most people and some characters are ridiculous because it's her version of them -- the hamster teeth guy is a dead giveaway because she's thinking of him as "that guy with the ridiculous teeth" so it's portrayed exactly that way
also the bit about him being a documentarian takes on a new dimension when you realize PWB's now-ex-husband makes documentaries
― mh, Friday, 7 June 2019 16:37 (five years ago) link
We finally gave s2 a watch over these past three days. Excellent of course. Without divulging details, our appreciations were a little different for numerous reasons; let's just say my own family's dynamics are not like Fleabag's and leave it at that.
The evolution between the two series was really well done, in a way I haven't seen in many shows.
This same thought struck me quite a bit this morning. It would have been easy to essentially rerun s1 in terms of everyone being exactly as they were or were seen as, since so many shows do, and in the same way that the season/show ended in a way that's not like s1's ending, the characters are all distinctly changed one way or another. Arguably Olivia Colman's is the exception but it's almost more like the mask finally drops more clearly in her case.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 19:28 (four years ago) link
Olivia Colman's a complete joy, even when playing a total pill
― mh, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 19:47 (four years ago) link
he plays a similarly sweet, baffled character in W1A
and The Windsors.
― fetter, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link
Whuh:
The series has been remade for French television by Jeanne Herry. Titled Mouche (French for 'fly', the insect), it started airing on 3 June 2019 on pay channel Canal+. Mouche is a close remake, though set in Paris with Camille Cottin in the starring role.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 20:17 (four years ago) link
And yes there's a trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqEACcnn3Ko
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 23:07 (four years ago) link
I finally got around to watching Season 2, and it was hilarious, and had a ton of great moments. One thing that bugs me about it, though, is the insane narcissism of PWB (or at least her character in the show). Other than being responsible (to some degree) for Boo's death, her problems seem to be that she is too funny, too beautiful, and more hip than everyone else, according to everyone in the show. Makes it a little hard to connect with her struggles when they read like the answer to the interview question "what is your worst fault?"
― DJI, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
That's one of the reasons I don't rate it so highly, I think.
Still, better than Crashing where she writes herself as Magical Pixie Girlfriend who is so irresistible to her ex he dumps his fiancée for her.
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 21:38 (four years ago) link
y’all, what
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 21:47 (four years ago) link
y'all, what OTM
― Yerac, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 21:58 (four years ago) link
yeah, don't really get that
― kinder, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 22:19 (four years ago) link
you don't? every character is constantly asking her not to make it all about her.
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 22:21 (four years ago) link
@aldo thought you were talking about Pete Holmes' show and got very confused for a minute.
― DJI, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 22:25 (four years ago) link
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, June 18, 2019 3:21 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
her problems seem to be that she is too funny, too beautiful, and more hip than everyone else, according to everyone in the show
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 22:43 (four years ago) link
I didn't feel that way but I do get it.
― Shite New Answers (jed_), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 22:54 (four years ago) link
Brad: Examples are how Fleabag's sister gets mad because she came up with a great joke, or how her mother's funeral was tough because everyone was telling her how beautiful she was.
― DJI, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 23:40 (four years ago) link
oh yeah, I forgot that bit.
― Shite New Answers (jed_), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 23:57 (four years ago) link
"her mother's funeral was tough because everyone was telling her how beautiful she was" <---definitely the behavior/perception of a healthy/well-adjusted person and trustworthy narrator
― Simon H., Wednesday, 19 June 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
Are you saying she made that bit up? It didn't seem to me that the show was trying to (on top of all of its other clever storytelling devices) portray her as an unreliable narrator of the story. She is definitely an unreliable narrator in her asides to the audience, but I figured that we were supposed to trust that the things which happen on-screen actually happened.
― DJI, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 00:17 (four years ago) link
considering her most private feelings are reserved for her mother's memory, it seems defensible to argue that maybe she's choosing to redirect what her funeral was like. but I'd need a rewatch to assess this idea.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 19 June 2019 00:23 (four years ago) link
I think it's pretty clear we're seeing everything from her perspective - her asides to the audience don't happen like Shakespearean soliloquies, they are right in the action, so it seems when she turns back to the action she is acting her life out for the audience. And everyone in her orbit is a sort of caricature, an essence of how she sees them.
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 00:29 (four years ago) link
Well then forget I said she was narcissistic!
― DJI, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 00:34 (four years ago) link
Don't let me ruin Ferris Bueller for you all, but he's a little self absorbed too.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 01:40 (four years ago) link
Zelda otm
― Shite New Answers (jed_), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 02:00 (four years ago) link
To be clear, I still loved the show! To those rushing to defend PWB - don’t worry - she clearly understands how funny and beautiful she is.
― DJI, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 02:09 (four years ago) link
her mother's funeral was tough because everyone was telling her how beautiful she was.
When I watched it first, II got the impression it was that everyone was telling her how beautiful she looked on that particular day, as if she normally looked like shite, but now, on this day when she is suffering more than she ever has before, she suddenly looks beautiful. It was like the opposite of everyone telling you that you look tired, as if you can do anything about that, or it's supposed to help. But I agree that it could also be that this is the only thing people said to her that she remembers. Which does confirm her narcissism, but not in a way I have a problem with.
― trishyb, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 11:53 (four years ago) link
The first season she also has a moment where she's walking down the street and telling the camera how amazing she looks and how the next person who walks by will definitely make a pass at her, and they don't, and it comes across as self-deprecating and endearing but underneath is clearly some fairly standard narcissism bordering on delusional!
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 12:44 (four years ago) link
my "ya'll, what otm" was that this was a primary facet of her character that leads to a lot of her "struggles". I only get annoyed with narcissistic characters if they aren't entertaining and attractive.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 13:43 (four years ago) link
xpost I loved the funeral beautiful comments.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 13:45 (four years ago) link
having gone to a few funerals lately, the bit where she actually looks great at a funeral was really painful people saying you look well, especially if you’re part of the deceased’s immediate family, is this nicety people lean back on. you probably look stressed, maybe tear-stained, and brokenactually looking great to the extent people are clarifying that they’re not just using the funeral script... oh god
― mh, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 13:58 (four years ago) link
that is to say, painful in a great way as far as the script goes!
― mh, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 13:59 (four years ago) link
the number one best thing about this series is that the mother never shows up in flashback being played by lindsay duncan or fn tilda swinton
― plax (ico), Friday, 21 June 2019 19:04 (four years ago) link
hahaha
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Friday, 21 June 2019 19:06 (four years ago) link
lol
― Rory end to the lowenbrow (Noodle Vague), Friday, 21 June 2019 19:07 (four years ago) link
feel like she woulda played her own mother in that scenario
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 21 June 2019 19:39 (four years ago) link
just watched Crashing. boy that was....actually kind of terrible for the most part!
― Simon H., Friday, 21 June 2019 21:23 (four years ago) link
Why is it all men in this thread who said Priest was creepy? I didnt read him that way at all.
I wasnt a fan of s1 - I found it hard to get past how hateful everyone was, esp the stepmother and Claires husband (ugh, his angry smug face and that beard make my skin crawl).
S2 turned it all upside down. As she says in the very first line "this is a love story". And it was. Not just about her and the Priest, but about her and her sister, her and her dad, her and the memory of her mum.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 23:39 (four years ago) link
Why is it all men in this thread who said Priest was creepy?
ilxor altar boy crew assemble
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 23:40 (four years ago) link
ouch.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 23:41 (four years ago) link
there was a lively debate regarding the creepiness, many disagreed with the thesis, it was mostly men because ilx is mostly men
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 23:44 (four years ago) link
Most of the disagreers were women. I just thought it was curious.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 23:57 (four years ago) link