My opinions on Fleabag

Fleabag is a dark comedy written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. It’s also one of my favorite shows and not just for the hot priest, its a show about human connection. One of the most notable facts about the show is that the main character (fleabag) breaks the 4th wall anytime she has a controversial thought. We the audience get to see where her mind wanders while the characters don’t. It gives the audience a unique insight into who she is as a person and into how she judges herself and those around her. The show does a great job of combining humor with the more serious grounded plotlines but overall the show is about human connection and how we all crave companionship.The show is so real because fleabag is so raw and messy. As the audience we can relate to all of her mess but feel comfortable in the fact that we aren’t her. We can laugh at her mistakes but distance ourselves from the hardships she goes through (debatably brings on to herself) because she laughs at them. There’s something engaging in the fact that we the audience get to follow her thought process but it also serves the purpose of conveying the message that we all feel lonely at times. People talk to themselves. Its a fact. I saw a Ted Talk on how useful it is but on how we all feel strange doing so. This show is a masterpiece because it takes this thing that we all do, and turns it into a vessel for telling a story. We all get lonely sometimes. We all have messy moments. We all are flawed in some way shape or form and our only job as human beings is to accept that and to do our best. The show ends perfectly with fleabag leaving the camera behind, the camera representing her need for external validation, and accepting her life as it is instead of trying to change it. I love fleabag as a show because it has something for everyone. You can laugh at the ridiculousness regardless of who you are, where you’re from, what you do for work. Its all somehow universally relatable.