damn Tories shot all the real ones I suppose
― Simon H., Tuesday, 9 April 2019 12:38 (five years ago) link
Apparently the graffiti also means 'life' in Bulgarian?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 12:44 (five years ago) link
Which makes a bit more sense than 'stomach' in this context.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 12:45 (five years ago) link
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
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 16:10 (five years ago) link
very true
― Simon H., Tuesday, 9 April 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link
great show, great ending
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 17:13 (five years ago) link
A real fox perhaps, but just composited in? I mean, it wouldn't take me more than one night sitting in a sleeping bag outside my house to get that shot ;) Destination of 176 bus was a nod to their editor. Rather than, y'know, Penge.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 17:19 (five years ago) link
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 ?? yearsbcz I remember the house I was moving into while listening, I’m saying this is just over nine years old (the radio version - Gelman had apparently been doing it live for a while). and Li’l Gary was on the episode too
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 17:47 (five years ago) link
omg I was just in Tesco thinking about this episode and I started tearing up again and a woman looked at me with some concern.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 20:41 (five years ago) link
Surprised to read the 'creepy' talk on here after seemingly endless tweets about how hot and steamy it all was.
But..
How You Feel About Fleabag And The Hot Priest Says A Lot About You
https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/fleabag-season-2-hot-priest-relationship
― piscesx, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 23:39 (five years ago) link
no thanks.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 00:48 (five years ago) link
just generally feel like sweary priests fit the same mould as down with the kids teachers; essentially suspicious. this didn’t generally affect the excellence of the show, and i felt it most in ep one, but I... can’t remember what i was going i say. i did think the “it’s God isn’t it” but was surprisingly powerful.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 04:19 (five years ago) link
There's something about the way in which this show invites us to cast judgement and is acutely aware it's doing that and actively playing with it, Claire's husbands - "I'm not a bad person, I just have a bad personality" speech underlined that. As does the fact that nearly everyone in her family considers Fleabag a selfish, narcissistic attention-seeker with only the viewer and the priest seeing different. I think that's probably why they went for a guy as creepy and unhinged looking rather than Sunday Evening BB2 Dreamy Priest 101.
There are hints of a contradictory and fucked up inner life going on with the priest that we never get to see, big red flags every time he mentions his brother for instance.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 07:30 (five years ago) link
Yes, and the battle with alcoholism. The alternative didn’t need to be “dreamy priest”, but the instability in his personality did introduce an element of danger to the uncertainty as to his motivations. that uncertainty most obviously coalesced around “kneel” - which because of that chaos had multiple possible meanings. that was brilliant.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 12:13 (five years ago) link
Last time I went to Italy there were sexy priest calendars onsale all over the place, it's a definite thing.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 12:19 (five years ago) link
indeed. i remember seeing them in Rome! Here we go.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 12:27 (five years ago) link
poor Father Albert has no stand-out qualities.
― koogs, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:02 (five years ago) link
he has a name!
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:58 (five years ago) link
It's no Lovely Girls competition.
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 15:31 (five years ago) link
#4 - Father Angelic - is the guy you see everywhere. He's the kind of sexy priest you could take home to meet your parents.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 16:10 (five years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2019/apr/10/how-should-we-feel-about-andrew-scott-priest-fleabag
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 19:27 (five years ago) link
i think that's a misreading. i don't think PWB wants us to think the priest is a horrible man. he's clearly a flawed man, but the show wants you to care about their star-crossed love
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 19:33 (five years ago) link
yeah individual moments came across as potentially crossing over into dark territory but purposely never went all the way
― Simon H., Wednesday, 10 April 2019 19:34 (five years ago) link
yeah they're all flawed at times horrible people but all of them were shown as redeemable by the end other than the odious godmother.
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 19:37 (five years ago) link
there's def a bit of cancel-culture mania in the air that means that any bit of tv featuring a cis het man behaving badly (angrily, lustily, controlling, sexually creepy) has the pop culture writers writing about how he's awful and the (fictional) woman and real female viewers should shun him, as if the majority of cis het men don't act like one of those types of things at least on occasion
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 19:38 (five years ago) link
I've enjoyed the series but that last episode stank of Richard Curtis to me.
― fetter, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 19:42 (five years ago) link
everyone on that show is kinda awful except for boo and the chatty guy at the cafe, the priest is by far the least awful of the crew
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 19:42 (five years ago) link
the old chatty guy in the cafe used to be in Juliet Bravo! He was the social worker husband of Inspector Darbley.
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 19:47 (five years ago) link
can we get a series next of just Tales Of Boo? Definitely some damage behind those big boo eyes.
― mick signals, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 21:26 (five years ago) link
i really didn't like boo. manic-pixie-dead-friend
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 21:31 (five years ago) link
Ouch!
― Simon H., Wednesday, 10 April 2019 21:31 (five years ago) link
i mean just going by the name boo is too squee cuddlestein mountain to start with
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 21:33 (five years ago) link
Yeah, for me the appeal of a reBOOt would be to learn that what we've seen has been largely FB's imaginary-friend version of a much realer character.
― mick signals, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 22:21 (five years ago) link
fetter otm and jiv otm about boo
though boo is totally the kind of name fleabag's friend would have.
as disappointing, or more, than cute priest's torrid church smooches was for me the way he just lazily shambled away from everything. during the ceremony he talked a real good game about love, soaking up every millimetre of pwb's attention, kissing her when he wanted, then just.. ok welp.
on the other hand i thought it utterly out of character for claire to run to the airport for cla(i)re. and it sort of undermined her startling confession of love for pwb!
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 23:18 (five years ago) link
I didn't really see a contradiction there
― Simon H., Thursday, 11 April 2019 01:00 (five years ago) link
This was so good (and so short, argh). I want to rewatch it all again right away.
― Yerac, Friday, 19 April 2019 17:49 (five years ago) link
After catching up on this thread: I don't find Moriarty physically appealing at all but he was very charming and hot in Fleabag. They had great chemistry together. I had assumed he was a high functioning alcoholic from the first episode when he kept pouring wine into their glasses and the tequila and I assumed she knew this too, especially from the first G&T break. I thought the asides basically crossed over to emphasize how kindred they were and not that she was speaking to God or Boo.
― Yerac, Friday, 19 April 2019 18:14 (five years ago) link
A very mild Guardian backlash, after innumerable articles about 'genius' status:
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/apr/20/fleabag-posh-girl-television
I kind of agree (as trailed on the controversial opinions thread) - though because of the quality, not really a problem imo until the last episode - which went full Richard Curtis.
― Luna Schlosser, Saturday, 20 April 2019 12:21 (five years ago) link
that's the second accusation of going "full Richard Curtis." because of a speech and an offscreen airport dash, presumably? seems a bit harsh.
― Simon H., Saturday, 20 April 2019 13:27 (five years ago) link
I am very jealous of PWB's hair. My hair would never be able to look like that. It ends up looking Ramona Quimby or "french".
― Yerac, Saturday, 20 April 2019 14:28 (five years ago) link
Speaking as a non-posh boy from a functional non-posh family, I found Fleabag pretty relatable.
That said, I'm up for a good deconstruction of Fleabag from that angle, but this wasn't it. Calling it "an unexamined fact" that the "Godmother gets to actually be an artist without also having to take on a telesales side hustle" seems super blind to the huge implied contempt for that character?
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 20 April 2019 14:46 (five years ago) link
Watched series 2 in one sitting. not sure I'm as enamoured of the conclusion as everyone else. There were a lot of comments out there about it being brought to a completely satisfying conclusion, I think the actress who plays Claire said it was 'poetry'...eh. It does bring everyone other than Fleabag herself's story to a satisfying conclusion, I suppose, but the stuff with the priest was messy, and I didn't feel that it came to any conclusion whatsoever in the end, nor did I think she'd found any kind of peace or respite. Is that just me?
― akm, Monday, 29 April 2019 18:13 (five years ago) link
just finished the first season of this remarkable show don't worry i'm shielding my eyes from all of the posts above this one
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 03:12 (four years ago) link
s2 is just as amazing
― Simon H., Tuesday, 4 June 2019 03:14 (four years ago) link
It’s better!!!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 09:02 (four years ago) link
Def! You're in for a treat Brad.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 09:12 (four years ago) link
i think s2 cemented it in my top 10 shows all time
― km not doin typos anymore (Will M.), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
I WAS ALL ABOUT THE PRIEST CONFESSIONAL SCENE
― homosexual II, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
"wrong" sure but it was hot af
― homosexual II, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
welp i finished it and i'd love to share my thoughts but i can't stop crying
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 03:59 (four years ago) link