Fleabag finale episode SPOILERS thread

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Crack open a can of and join your fellow iPlayer stalkers here for discussion of the final episode of Fleabag. Spoilers totally allowed so no peaking if you haven't see the episode.

Hoping it's as good as we all want it to be. Should be live on iPlayer tomorrow about 9.30am

No need to apologise, I love a good crosspost! I agree re being predictable. I only want a happy ending here if it takes me by surprise!

I'm off to watch it again

Wow. Just brilliant.

Phoebe Waller Bridge, if you read Mumsnet, you are wonderful. Please, please don't make any more FB, I cannot take it and I want to imagine my own FB future. I will have to watch this episode ten more times to catch all the bits, the nuances, the looks. It really was a love story.

WEEPING, it's TV but I am WEEPING.

I agree now that, after the passionate kiss and her asking whether his feelings were for her or God, she starts to distance herself from him as a carnal Male being. She calls him Father again too and he slots back into his role in the community. I still really want to know his back story though!! And I love the idea of an xmas special where he's left the priesthood and bumps into her and her new man at a family get together! As much as I wanted them to get together, it takes strength to do what's right, and he might have blamed her for his renouncing his views otherwise.

Did anyone else wave back when she walked off at the end?

I did! And said bye quietly 😭

I didn't wave back as I was crying too much!

Just watched it twice. Such a beautiful show. I’m so sad they couldn’t end up together. Loved it when she sent the Fox his way and she kept that little piece of her mum with her.

If he had left the church for her it would have been such a twee ending. She doesn't want someone that could be so easily (and quickly) swayed by her. His strength and conviction is a big part of what is attracting her.

I love the idea of her going home, sobbing for a while and then quietly carrying on. I also then want hime to come in on Chatty Wednesday and having found a way of loving her and God and declaring his undying love.

Her ending was poetic, truly moving and complex. I adored the way she shook her head and waved. It felt complete.

She is a rare talent.

I am sure PWB would only write more FB if she felt she had something new to say about the characters, but I’m happy to wait.

I'm a blubbing mess. It was perfect. She didn't give ESM or Martin the satisfaction of making a scene. Brilliant. Also realised another reason why I adore FB- she's the spiritual sister of Anna from This Life! I wonder if PWB is an Anna fan?

Loved the ending.
Can someone remind me what the reveal was at the end of series 1 about the best friend? I have totally forgotten.

FB shagged her boyfriend, Boo then went to throw herself in front of something to get his attention and try and get him back, but she died. (Basically, I am sure someone else will recall it differently)

She fucked her friends bf, which she feels contributed to her unintentional suicide. Friend had suspicions her bf was wandering and wanted to get a bit hurt in an accident to draw him back. (I think)

FB slept with Boo's boyfriend.

They rowed when she found out and boo run off and went out into the road and died. Not clear if it was suicide or not but might have been an tragic accident.

Yes, that. Consequences of behaviour.

Boo never knew it was Fleabag. She only knew he was seeing someone else.

Boo had meant to do a 'cry for help' but not kill herself to get back at cheating boyfriend and stepped into cycle lane - but got knocked into the main road (possibly killing cyclist to inthink?) which was revealed early in series 1 but only at the end of series 1 was it clear that fb was the one boos boyfriend cheated with
Claire said she thought fb had tried it on with Martin because of this

Thanks all. I may have to rewatch. I think I preferred season 2. Less manic.

What a perfect ending.

Her relationship with the priest helped her to face her worst fears, and to prevail. His love was transformational - as was her vulnerability to say she loved him. Their getting together would be incidental. This is about her transformation. Love is pain, after all. That's why, as he said, it's a good thing we have each other.

Just finished watching. I think I held my breath through the whole episode, my chest was aching by the end!
Utterly, awfully perfect. I don't think it could have gone any other way but holy fuck, that was heart wrenching to watch! But also really hopeful too. I really didn't get the feeling that FB was off to drink and shag herself into oblivion...she really seemed like she'd be OK.

The 4th wall stuff in the finale was interesting. She barely talked to us at all, just the odd look. And no Boo as others have said.

I really want the back story with her mum. I think that Fleabag and Claire are both quite damaged in a way that's not explained solely by losing their mother as adults. Maybe she was also absent for part of their childhoods?

I am so sad it's over! I only started watching series 1 last week and binged the whole lot! I am going to re-watch with DP (who has not seen any) at a more leisurely pace and see what I missed!

I agree, she knows he’s made up his mind that he won’t be with her after that kiss. His wedding speech confirms it for her, you can tell by the way she looks.
I love Claire’s speech about how ridiculous running through an airport for the person you love would be, but then goes anyway.
Loved it.

I thought it was nearly perfect. I would have liked Dad to walk away and leave Godmother having an epic tantrum... but I suppose the point was that she always wins. Claire asking Martin to leave her... I think it subverts the fact that she's so confident and in control. She has this huge outburst and then loses her bottle and makes him do the leaving. She's uptight and has no self belief, despite being brilliant. She shows a flash of dominance and then has to revert to being a victim, a damsel in distress. She chucks this aside when she goes after Klair though, so perhaps it's the role Martin cast her in.

I think this episode shows how Fleabag has grown- everyone finally sees this. She doesn't kick off, or wind anyone up, or break down. She finds that she is loved in many ways, and I think that will sustain her through heartache for hot priest. Also, sending the fox after him seemed playful. I think it symbolised that she will follow him around, in his thoughts but that she can carry on without him. Also, foxes are supposed to be quite bad for fleas... he literally has Fleabag following him!

I was undecided the whole way through as to who she was "talking" to. Now, I think it's her mum- or a version of her. I think that her real grief (or her unresolved grief) is for her mum. Boo was her support. So Boo dying cast her deeper adrift and chucked in guilt. Last season saw her confront the guilt-grief, now it's her deeper grief. She's desperate for guidance and lonely, so I think she's resurrected a version of her mum in her head. In the absence of her mother, she turns to a father (literally, the priest). Once she realises that she's not alone and that her mother was there the whole time (the statue), she lets go of the voice in her head. She doesn't need it anymore.