Fleabag Season Two & Phoebe Waller-Bridge: complicated in love

**Complicated Woman: Fleabag. Our most complicated woman is back and we're unpacking the differences in Fleabag between the two seasons. Carinn and Kate surprisingly disagree on which version of Fleabag was closest to irredeemable. (01:59) and more at (48:56)

**We check on Fleabag's relationship growth from season one. Godmother (08:24), Father, (11:04), Claire (16:11)

**Meet the Priest. Every scene between Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Andrew Scott is electric, but we discuss a few of the most significant in Season Two. (26:33)

**Feelings and the fox. Kate believes the most pivotal scene between Fleabag and Priest is in Episode 3. The fox seems to be a stand in for the priest conflicted feelings about celibacy and for Fleabag. When Fleabag turns to speak to the camera in her classic breaking of the fourth wall, the priest calls her out on it. He is literally the first person to actually SEE her. (27:25)

**The Confessional Scene. Oh. My... you know the rest. (36:09)

**The Wedding/Homily. The fox, the Alabama Shakes song, the sly and sad waive Fleabag gives to the camera: perfection. Love feels like hope. (44:40)

**Things get heated. Between the Priest and Fleabag -- and Carinn and Kate!!! -- as they debate alcoholism, whether the end justifies the means and who had more responsibility in the bad choices that lead to the one fateful night between Priest and Fleabag. (48:56)

**We play arm-chair therapist in What’s Your Damage, Heather? An homage to the iconic line in Winona Rider’s Heathers. Has Fleabag evolved from a “girl with no friends and an empty heart” to a woman in love? Can she ever learn to kneel? (63:47)

**We tell you What She Said, the segment where we share some of our favorite first person quotes from Phoebe Waller-Bridge.

**Kate shares a startling quote about how Phoebe-Waller Bridge wrote the part of Fleabag so she wouldn’t actually become her. (75:10)

**Carinn shares a quote about Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s process, her enviable ability to throw it all away and the various places she finds inspiration that can unlock it all. (78:08)

**Takeaways. Fleabag tells us at the outset that this is a love story, but there are so many including those of self-love. (87:50)

Stay Complicated!

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