Fleabag anyone

Oh no, it's over. I will really miss Fleabag, and the ending was just so poignant.

Maybe you're right Lisagran. It would be sad to see such a brilliant series fade into mediocrity. Better to leave on a high.

I loved every minute, am almost in mourning.

I haven’t watched it. I’m rubbish really as I don’t watch television much so I can’t comment but your post nannylovesshipping resonated as, I feel similar emotions with some of the books I read. When they come to an end, I feel hollow as if I’ve lost friends! I still remember finishing ‘A Little Life’ by American novelist Hanya Yanagihara.

The finale was great - I'm going back to the beginning to watch it all again.

I thought it was fantastic. Intelligent humour for a change. So much better than Mrs Brown!!

Excellent. Both series. Stand out moments in this one was Kristen Scott Thomas's cameo with its nod to her scene in Four Weddings and a Funeral and Andrew Scott's sweary priest's wedding speech. The right ending too.

Urmstongran I found Little Life intensely moving, harrowing in parts. The story of tortured Jude and kind Willem has stayed with me too.

Brilliant, so well written and each part no matter how small stunningly interpreted. Am quite bereft!

The sisters comment about only running through airports for her sister was such an emotional moment.

I do think that the relationship with the priest "peaked". It taught her that she is lovable. But the priest has his own demons and if he left the church for her it would have just been another thing on the list of things he ran away from.

The father... was both wise and cruel.

Him pointing out that the step mum was imperfect but loveable was telling fleabag that she too could be loved...but also in a cruel way. He will never really like or get fleabag..but he does love her..

... i dont know how to feel about that..

"No more misscarraiges" - I know someone who has had exactly that said to them by an IL!!

I think its a program you either relate to or you dont. If you have experienced some of the relationships depicted, it is perfect.

For me, the relationship between the two sisters was the main love story!

The step mums cryptic "I haven't decided yet" re motherhood & the surrogate at the wedding???

I don't want a 3rd series. It was too perfect. But also, I do!

Does anyone know of any grown ups who say rude words so very frequently ? Rude words don't offend me it's just that I wonder how realistic such frequent usage is . I have overheard schoolchildren doing what used to be called blasphemy, but not grown ups.

Isn't Olivia Coleman brilliant as the stepmum?

'Does anyone know of any grown ups who say rude words so very frequently ?' [err ; me ]….

Me too. I love good creative swears.

Anyway, the rudest people I know never swear, they just use beautifully gramatically correct queens english to be horrid.

Swearey people tend to gain my trust a bit quicker than others. A good swear is healthy. You need to watch out for those who repress their inner swears

I liked the second series better than the first. I found some of the graphic content in the first a little uncomfortable but I still carried on watching because it was just so original and funny - and Phoebe Waller-Bridge's asides to the camera were so brilliant.

There was some research published recently which claimed that swearing "has many positive virtues, from promoting trust and teamwork in the office to increasing our tolerance to pain." I feel that any rudeness, sarcasm or aggressiveness is unpleasant, whether accompanied by swearing or not.

Fantastic series. So true it hurt at times. PW-B is a genius!

Loved Olivia Coleman in this - she said 'I'll open it over the bin' when given a present - priceless I laughed like a drain.

my husband recommended I watch it and I did - same as Killing Eve he watched it first - I am not much of a TV watcher as I write most evenings - like here online tonight but before that two poems got edited anyway yes i totally loved and binged on it over two days. wonderful characters brill acting - not so funny as poignant and accurate portrayal of dysfunctional non-conformist families.
Brilliant observations on human frailty and double standards - loved the miranda hart style to camera audience asides and looks - very effective at making you connect with fleabag and her inner demons -
so humane and gentle and accepting of people with broken hearts inside and why not to judge anybody - you just don't know why they are the way they are - so very rich indeed

I loved the first series. It was shocking in parts but I agree with others, pwb is extremely talented as an actress and writer. A real class act. She brought a total realism to the character and I could relate to her. I loved killing eve so much too.

Good to see original comedy writing like this.. Don't judge until you have watched series 2 and 2.. Best done as a binge watch on catchup

Series 1 and 2, I meant!!

I've come late to the party and just finished binge watching series 1, so am really looking forward now to starting on the second series. I did find it a bit in yer face at first, but once over that I've loved it. The writing is brilliant. The relationships between the sisters and between Fleabag and Boo are just so poignant. And oh, Olivia Colman!!

That's it for Fleabag - there won't be a third series. I think that's the right call. Perfect with her waving goodbye to us, the viewers, as she walked off.

Fleabag is a lovable eccentric. We could do with her here on Gransnet because many problems dissolve when viewed from an unusual perspective.

Finally got round to watching series 2 and may have to rewatch series 1. I did enjoy that up to a point and think my reservation was due to the fact that I thought she was copying Miranda a bit. Will now also have to watch Killing Eve as well. What a talent. Was series 1 on BBC3?