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

I binge watched the whole series 2 one night last week. My neck is permanently cricked from looking at my computer on the bedside table!

I’ve just watched it again. And read the fics.

Planning a s1e1-s2e6 rewatch for this afternoon once DP has gone home. I can't wait

I watched the whole thing again on Friday. Several lovely female friends, tapas and wine. We laughed. We cried. We all disliked the ending.

I'm still thinking about it every day which is the sign of a brilliant series and something I rarely do.

Did anyone see GoT this evening where there was a (supposedly) very big emotional moment, when Jamie gave Brienne the instruction..... yep, you’ve guessed it - ‘kneel’! I’m afraid I burst out laughing!

I have watched a couple of s2 again.

I wish someone had said to me, at 33, "it gets better". Mostly all I got was shite about how I should prioritise meeting a man and having children.

I love the priest saying flat out "oh I don't know how to talk to babies"

Oh, he said it'll pass, meaning the bus!

The “it’ll pass” moment made me wonder if he was speaking from experience and it wasnt the first time he’d been in love since entering priesthood.

Or he is just in the job of counselling people.?

I thought it sounded like the sort of advice counsellors give for any sort of life trauma - bereavement, unrequited love, etc. “This too shall pass,” and so on. I also thought he was speaking to himself as well as to her.

I started watching Crashing last night. PWB quotes likes an Irish bloke, doesn’t she? It’s almost like she has a type...

ooh I must watch Crashing, hope it's on Now TV.

"It'll pass" - I think he's probably had a fair few infatuations in his time.

Possibly - though I think that ties in with the theory that he’s hiding in the priesthood from his own wayward Fleabag-ish sexuality. I keep saying his character struck me as a bit of a white-knuckle celibate.

I don't know if it's hiding....but perhaps he'd have chosen another type of priesthood if he was going to deal with all the "love is awful" stuff. And I really enjoyed the "love is awful" because I always thought - and still do - that happiness is way more important than love.

Current and ex partner were Irish too.

I feel like there should be an official welcome for PWB when she arrives back in the UK.

A welcome party, yes!
i read a nasty article about how posh it was, being derogatory which i shouldnt have read. ,

but then an opposing view
www.independent.co.uk/voices/fleabag-phoebe-waller-bridge-comedy-frasier-a8881591.html

Horace, I met up with a friend and had a good rant about that article. And all of the same ilk. Some people just want to criticise everything.

then I saw a piss taking Tweet talking about Romeo and Juliet was about posh people and therefore not worthy. Cheered me right up

not allowed to be anything these days, literally.

then I saw a piss taking Tweet talking about Romeo and Juliet was about posh people and therefore not worthy. Cheered me right up

ha ha

www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/method-acting-is-overpraised-nonsense-andrew-scott-talks-playing-fleabags-sexy-priest-and-the-catholic-churchs-attitude-to-sexuality-38029465.html

Two things from this article:

1). Whatever anyone takes away from the programme as a viewer, the Priest was definitely supposed to be in love.
2). "We sat in that place in the exact same positions as we did in the show and for about two and a half hours we had this incredible conversation about what love is and the harm we've caused and the bruises we carry."
Now have loads of questions about how you are supposed to behave in a Quaker meeting house. Wouldn't this have involved quite a bit of shouting as in the show they didn't sit together? Can you just go and hang out if nobody else is there?

Re: 'poshness', I thought that a key part of the relationship between the father and Fleabag was that he had the resources to help her more, but for various reasons chose not to. She literally couldn't appear at his door in the middle of the night and expect a welcome. You could make that point with loads of dialogue and exposition, or you could just show her being turned away from his large, comfortable house.

Realistically most people live in smaller houses, but PWB's narrative style is dramatic story telling (see also Killing Eve), not gritty realism.

That’s a good article, merry. I’ve read elsewhere that the priest was intended to be a reflection of FB, though I imagine more of a start of season 2 FB who’d got her life together but had gone cold turkey on love and sex rather than a S1 FB.

That’s why I agree with how the ending turned out, just not with how quickly it was resolved. In my head he struggled with love quite a bit longer than just over the course of a wedding.

well, he said he'd been there many times, "love is awful", nothing good comes from sex etc etc.

I wonder if there was any mental link to Carrie in S&TC saying she was looking for "ridiculous, inconvenient" love, because "love is awful" felt like the perfect opposite for that.

I know I'm late but I've avoided this thread until now... oh my heart. Will spend the evening reading this whole thread and feeling everything

Have you recovered @Countryslices? I'm still in a daze weeks later.

My lovely mate spent Easter with OC (they're good friends) and they chatted about FB. I am v envious.