Fleabag 1x1 Guide

: Fleabag constantly addresses the audience, using us as her only true confidants. This creates a sense of intimacy while highlighting how she performs her life rather than living it. Grief and Guilt

The sex scene that follows is not erotic. It is raw, clinical, and comedic. She asks him to "do the thing where you slap me in the face during." He obliges. She stares at the camera, bored. When he rolls off and says, "I love you," she replies, "That’s great." She then steals a statue of a woman with a helmet (the first of many petty thefts) and leaves. Fleabag 1x1

The first hint comes during a forced “birthday dinner” at a terrible restaurant. Dad asks Fleabag how the café—her café—is doing. She lies: “Brilliantly.” We later see it is a failing pit of despair. : Fleabag constantly addresses the audience, using us

Fleabag then visits her in a run-down part of London. She runs it with her best friend, whose face we never see, and who is only heard in brief flashbacks (a crucial narrative device). The café is failing, and Fleabag steals a receipt from a customer to write a fake positive review. It is raw, clinical, and comedic

July 21, 2016 (BBC Three) Writer: Phoebe Waller-Bridge Director: Tim Kirkby Runtime: ~26 minutes

Later, Fleabag visits her (Bill Paterson) and Godmother (Olivia Colman), who is now his partner after their mother’s death. The Godmother is passive-aggressive and condescending, and the father is emotionally repressed. During an excruciating dinner, Fleabag’s suggestion of using their mother’s “silence” statue for the Godmother’s upcoming art exhibition is twisted into her being cruel.

: We are introduced to her high-strung sister Claire, her passive-aggressive godmother (and stepmother-to-be), and her emotionally distant father.