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

Gulp... that was good.😢

She’s going to be OK.

Bloody gorgeous! Shall do a few jobs and then watch it again

How wonderful. But she doesn't need us anymore 😭

I wonder if that priest is actually a serial shagger who always uses God as an excuse to not have a relationship after

I don’t see how you could watch the pain and the beauty of that final scene and interpret it that way. What extraordinary acting from both of them.

Loved the continued conceal of the Dad's name.

So many amazing actors in the programme. Martin was excellent this time too.

That was awesome but I am heartbroken...

aw, it'll pass

so pleased she has her mum back

and she said goodbye to us

I think I might have something in my eye...

Getting her mum back was powerful. The more I think about it the more I like that touch.

A perfectly bittersweet ending! Now to figure out how fo fill the Fleabag shaped hole in my life...😭

Sob! But I think it felt complete.

Loved it. I downloaded it and sat here at my desk watching it, trying to keep any tears in check.
Acting is wonderful and the end felt right.

Really says something about the quality of the writing that I'm crying at the mere mention of certain scenes.
It was a perfect ending. Loved the fact that PWB used music to tell us FB is going to be alright.
And the fox, "He went that way." 😆.

Wonderful sad and perfect.
She will be alright. She doesn't need us anymore.

From someone who has been in FB's situation before, all I can say is the ending was predictable. I'm a bit sorry, just for that reason really. It wasn't that I wanted them together necessarily - that would have been unrealistic - but I was hoping for something unexpected. Instead we got exactly what we could have predicted: dad and godmother together, Clare and husband separated, FB and priest thwarted. To be honest, it made for too much of an everyday story. In my world, it isn't hard to find people who have had relationships with priests and been given up for God.

What's wrong with it being a (relatively) realistic ending?

The beauty is in the writing, the observation of human relationships and the acting.

I liked the touches of honesty between FB and godmother. Godmother saying she loves FBs dad and will look after him. FBs honest return of the statue, then godmother asking her and Clare to help her. Still laced with venom but with a touch more mutual understanding perhaps?

She got her mother back yes, but then put her in the bin. Or was it something else?

She didn't bin it. Her hand just moved over it, she's still carrying it at the very end. Trust me I did a forensic rewind on that!

No, nothing wrong with it being realistic, but just very predictable.

I think episode 4 was so shocking we were never going to be more shocked or surprised than that so it was inevitably a little more tame than explosive. Maybe they could have saved the big jump scare stare into camera for the finale!

Loved that. Beautifully observed, written and acted. Sorry that it's finished but a perfect way to end.