Alan Sepinwall on why Season Two of Fleabag was a heaven-sent sequel GoldenGlobes
So her crush on the priest — a relative newcomer to the cloth, and a friendless wonder himself — plays not as blasphemy, but as her unwittingly falling for a kindred spirit. The new episodes have a lot of fun with the idea that both of them speak to invisible figures: the audience for her, God for him.
“This is a love story,” she tells us in the season’s opening moments, and it is — just not in the way she might expect or want. And it’s beautiful. The Season Two premiere picks up, as a helpful chyron tells us, “371 days, 19 hours and 26 minutes later” from where Season One left off. It’s been nearly three times as long since the original batch of episodes ran on Amazon. Waller-Bridge’s star has risen significantly in the interim, with her work runninglast year getting her a spot on the creative team for the next James Bond film.
It’s a marvelous farce, set entirely at an awkward family dinner with Fleabag, Claire, their dad, the wicked stepmom, the priest and Claire’s noxious American husband Martin , who made a pass at his sister-in-law last time around. The tension throughout is so thick, a steak knife wouldn’t get through it.
At one point, Fleabag has drinks with a powerful businesswoman , who takes a shine to our scattered protagonist. “Women,” she suggests, “are born with pain built in. It’s our physical destiny. Period pain, sore boobs, childbirth. You know? We carry it within ourselves, throughout our lives. Men don’t. They have to seek it out.” It’s a wickedly smart bit of writing, the kind that Waller-Bridge sprinkles casually throughout this series.
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