Fleabag · Season 2 · Prime Video
Fleabag Season 2
Fleabag Season 2 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 9.5/10. 6 episodes on Prime Video from 4 March 2019.
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What BollyAI Thinks
Season 2 is the rarer achievement: a second season that surpassed the first on every metric. Andrew Scott's Priest arrived as the show's best character - a man who noticed Fleabag looking at the camera and asked about it, the one person who saw through the fourth-wall performance. The central episode where he responds to a camera break mid-conversation is the show's structural masterstroke. Waller-Bridge won the three Emmys. Critics at 100% used terms like 'masterpiece' and 'perfect'. The final episode's ending - what she gives up and why - is earned in a way television endings almost never are. Twelve episodes total. The best comedy-drama in years.
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The Room
“Fleabag Season 2 is a miracle - romantic, devastating, formally perfect, and the best comedy on television by a margin that's almost unfair.”
Rotten Tomatoes (critics consensus)
Standout Episodes
The hours worth arguing about — premieres, finales, and the turning points. BollyAI reads the room episode by episode.
- E3Episode 39.6
The Priest notices her looking at the camera. The show's central conceit - the private confessional space between Fleabag and the audience - is suddenly invaded, and the whole architecture of what the show has been doing snaps into focus. Arguably the pivot point of the entire series.
The moment: The Priest following her gaze to camera and asking where she keeps going - the show's most technically audacious scene.
“The moment the Priest notices the fourth wall is television writing at its most inventive.” — Rotten Tomatoes (critics consensus)
- E6Episode 69.8
The series finale. What she chooses and what she gives up are both devastating, and the final camera look is the show saying goodbye in the only way it could. Waller-Bridge wrote herself a curtain call that earned every tear the audience was holding.
The moment: The last look to camera - the show's farewell to the one relationship it built with absolute honesty.
“One of the most accomplished series finales in the history of British television comedy-drama.” — Rotten Tomatoes (critics consensus)
Season Over Season
Surpasses Season 1 - the Priest character is the show's greatest invention, and the finale pays off both seasons simultaneously.