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Fleabag finale episode SPOILERS thread

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HotPriest · 07/04/2019 16:42

Crack open a can of Gin 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

Fleabag finale episode SPOILERS thread
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GingerAndTheBiscuits · 02/05/2019 17:41

I got tickets! I’m so excited! Had such an unproductive afternoon frantically refreshing.

Singasonga · 02/05/2019 17:48

I was at work and missed it. 😕

kennypppppppp · 02/05/2019 19:20

ooooh i just got a ticket too!! ticket singular! but i don't care!!!!!!!!!!!!! it will be a defining moment for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RuffleCrow · 02/05/2019 19:47

Sad to have missed the big ticket grab, but slightly relieved I won't be there to embarass myself by making eyes at PWB and rofling far too loudly Grin

Catchingbentcoppers · 02/05/2019 19:51

I was v late to Fleabag but I loved it, the last three episodes were utterly sublime. When the camera stopped following her in the closing shot of the final episode and she gave a teeny weeny wee wave I sobbed my eyes out and shouted 'Dont go!'. Tragic I know ...

JamesBoredom · 02/05/2019 21:37

How Kenny? They were sold out everywhere by 5 o clock weren’t they?!

Isitmybathtimeyet · 02/05/2019 22:02

Tried so hard for tickets but 3pm was just as I had to set off for various child things and as hard as I tried the connection kept going so I stayed 2.5 hours down the line! So frustrating as normally I work till 5.30 and would have been in a better position to give it a go.

JamesBoredom · 02/05/2019 22:12

I managed to keep the connection going until I nearly there but I saw a tweet saying no more (less than £100) tickets available at Wyndham. And Soho said Sold out.

RosaWaiting · 03/05/2019 09:13

slightly annoyed as I didn't know 2 sites were selling them so only had the Delfont one. After I gave up, I saw on Twitter that Soho was doing better with people getting through.

then I saw posts from about 7.30 from people saying they'd just got them - so that means if I had stayed in the queue, I might have got one, but I imagine it would be an unaffordable one.

I had to queue online for about 30 mins to get tickets for Private Lives and that started off by telling me it would be a lot longer!

There is a lottery of some kind on the day but not quite clear how that will work.

DarlingNikita · 03/05/2019 10:15

I completely buy that Eve would be obsessed with Villanelle but the other way round? Nah mate.

I think Villanelle is obsessed and fascinated because Eve is her mirror-image/opposite – dowdily dressed, law-abiding (law-enforcing, in fact), hidebound by convention. It is very telling when she replaces Eve's clothes with beautiful and expensive new ones; I think she sees Eve as a project, to change into someone more glamorous, just as Eve has a project in Villanelle.

I think Villanelle is just so amused by the idea that someone is determined to stop her, she's decided to see if she can make that person love her instead.

And I agree with that too.

I don't fully agree with it being a male wank fantasy of a female serial killer. It makes sense that an assassin should be in good shape and young.

And yes, she wears expensive and often attractive clothes; there is almost a fetish element. But why should she NOT fetishise clothes? Take the James Bond films: the viewer is encouraged to notice and covet HIS clothes and watches, not to mention his weapons. I'd argue that in KE the clothes are actually used for more interesting and complex reasons (there's a good point in the article below about why someone of V's background might be into expensive clothes).

The voluminous pink dress is particularly interesting, I think. It ticks all the princess-fantasy boxes of being pink, frothy and girlish in shape, but it's a parody, an extreme version of a 'little girl party dress'. It says 'Yes, I'm wearing sugary frothy pink. And?' And it takes up a LOT of space, in an almost aggressive way, which is something women often don't feel we can do.

www.theguardian.com/fashion/2018/nov/02/how-fashion-both-decadent-and-drab-became-the-star-of-killing-eve

RosaWaiting · 03/05/2019 10:18

I was watching a thing about the making of Killing Eve and they also talk about how Eve is meant to be "dowdy". I just think of her as a woman wearing practical clothes.

I also don't see her as boring - she works for MI5. I think - I hope - the husband is pointless, hope they break up or he doesn't feature in series 2. I tend to see him as a road Eve went down because probably, at the time, she didn't have something more interesting in her life.

I didn't think she was boring without Bill at all. However, I should have learned my lesson re what was about to happen to Bill. It is a trope - declare how much you love each other as friends and then....which didn't occur to me till he arrived at the nightclub.

DarlingNikita · 03/05/2019 10:37

She is clearly meant to be dowdy – or, perhaps more accurately and to the point, to be dissatisfied with her clothes and her look. When her suitcase is stolen and Bill (RIP) apologises, she says, 'It's OK, I hate all my clothes.' And when she recovers the suitcase and sees all the new clothes, she visibly has an internal struggle with herself about how much she likes them and would like to keep them.

I really miss Bill too. Sad

RosaWaiting · 03/05/2019 10:43

ah yes, she did say that. I might have to watch it again Grin

kennypppppppp · 03/05/2019 18:45

james boreham ... just waitead on the website and it went through and i am not one to ever be successful with ticket buying, but i could only get one so i'm plonk in the middle of a row. it was just totally sheer luck. will buy you a programme if you want though? (seriously!)

i truly can't wait and think i might cry when i see pwb!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HotPriest · 03/05/2019 20:13

Lucky people if you got a ticket.

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JamesBoredom · 04/05/2019 17:33

Ah Kenny that’s lovely of you thank you. I might well take you up on that! I’d try for the daily ticket lottery but it’s just a bit too much of a faff.

ThanksItHasPockets · 06/05/2019 10:26

This is worth a watch - an American interview with PWB, Sian Clifford and Brett Gelman (Martin) to promote S2. They are careful not to give much away but their oblique references make perfect sense if you’ve seen it. Some really interesting stuff on PWB’s decision to focus on faith and spirituality.

merrymouse · 06/05/2019 10:54

I thought that was really interesting thanks, particularly on reason for talking to camera in the first series and columnists 'hot takes' on Fleabag. I know everything is supposed to be in the script, but am hoping that we will learn more from publicity for the American release.

merrymouse · 06/05/2019 10:54

Also good to hear from Brett Gelman.

EleanorReally · 06/05/2019 11:31

thanks for the link, girl done good

RosaWaiting · 08/05/2019 18:21

he likes the sound of his own voice, doesn't he....

I would have liked to have seen Sian at the Soho theatre tonight but couldn't face hanging around that late - such an old granny.

I think, from looking at Twitter, that Andrew Scott is in New York? I will be very interested to hear the US take on the priest. I think there are some reviews online but it seems to be getting released on different services on different days.

RosaWaiting · 08/05/2019 19:02

interesting review here

www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/05/fleabag-season-2-review-phoebe-waller-bridge-amazon?utm_brand=vf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&mbid=social_twitter&utm_social-type=owned

everyone was a lot more excited about the breaking of the 5th wall than I was!

RosaWaiting · 08/05/2019 20:04

just to add

PWB hasn't written any of Killing Eve 2, have I got that right?

Could still be fab of course...

merrymouse · 10/05/2019 12:12

Haven’t listened yet but PWB is on ‘awards chatter’ podcast talking about Bond, FB, Killing Eve.

EleanorReally · 12/05/2019 19:13

Is it bafta nominated?

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