Critic Reviews

Fleabag unpacks the life of a complicated young woman--with all of its pain, insecurity, anger, humor, friendship, impulses, and more--with a unique sensibility that makes it essential viewing.

[A] truly wonderful new comedy. ... How Waller-Bridge walks her character up to the edge of emotional frailty and then only explores a small part of it, brings out the pathos that so clearly lies behind the comedy and leaves you wanting more development and character exploration.

Fleabag is such an exciting new series it’s hard to settle down long enough to appreciate its many impressive attributes.

Fleabag is an original. ... By the final episode, which I won’t spoil but which touches on themes of forgiveness, her story feels richer than many dramas.

Season 2 is much more open in every way.

Season 2 is a towering accomplishment, proving what many have suspected since her debut: Waller-Bridge is operating on a higher plane, and she’s kind enough to take the audience along with her.

Crackling with intelligence but consumed with regrets and issues with her broken family, this neurotic Fleabag is an audacious marvel. [13-26 May 2019, p.11]

“Fleabag” has callbacks to the first season’s revelation and an ending that’s so perfect it really should be in a textbook for comedy writers.

Fleabag season two, the follow-up to Waller-Bridge’s initial, brutally honest portrait of a British woman on the brink, is even better than the first.

An almost annoyingly perfect show about the inseparable agony and ecstasy of being alive. ... Everything wonderful about the show remains.