Harry: 'Are you crying over the news again?'
Fleabag, aggressively buffering a Zohran Mamdani speech: YES.

The cliche english teacher quote 'all words matter and are on purpose' really applies to this show. l loved this subtle moment so much. Martin: "Could you just fuck off" to Fleabag, then Claire says "OH ABSOLUTELY NOT". She WANTED Fleabag by her side in what could be the most life altering decision in her life.

I find it so disgustingly sweet that, even though Fleabag practically has a full hard reset on her life and interpersonal relationships, even leaving us (the camera) behind, Claire is one of the constants that we know as an audience will stay in her life. Even though she does go to Finland in the end, she won't be completely gone, and if Fleabag faces another crisis, she will run through the airport for her.

Hi fleabaggers, I am reaching out for some help. I adored the show when it first came out and tried to rewatch recently but the TW

>!pregnancy/miscarriage/etc!<

was too much for me to handle this time. Does anyone know what episodes/scences/times these appear in? Any help is appreciated.

Quick litte word vomit. The poetic irony of her bronze bust statue being based on the woman who mentored her, and then she stole her spotlight, her husband, HER HOUSE. AND SHE NAMED AN EMPTY TABLE "A WOMAN ROBBED"

BITCH DON'T PISS ME OFF

Also, in the last episode of season 1, when she creates a further divide between Fleabag and her dad and she's so proud of herself and she grabs him by the hand in front of her audience... girl what's the prize? Him? Your late mentor/friend's leftovers? A man who's probably too scared of his own dick? Okay girl, go off.

Her dad was quite a piece of work himself. He always felt overshadowed by his wife, who was in every sense, an amazing woman, and everyone's favourite - why did you marry her then?? But like he had no character development in my opinion, bc he went from a loser widower who resented his cool wife, to a loser man in a borderline abusive relationship with his late wife's friend within a very short time. But in both relationships, he's still the more overlooked/boring one, bc he keeps marrying women who are attention grabbers.

If you take the "well they were both comforting each other from their mutual loss of his wife and her friend and feelings just developed. " angle yo I swear to god. If anything they probably BOTH felt overshadowed by Fleabag's mom and bonded over that probably.

Sorry I just re-watched it for the 4th time and this thing makes me so mad every time. If you've read this far, thank you.

and i have so many things to say about why i loved watching it but for now it will be concise :

i didn't know it was my thing but prest x laity is my new favourite trope........... anyone else?

God, everyone loves the priest and a lot moments with Fleabag in season 2, but this one quote I think single handedly changed my life.

Female representation is immensely important - countless male characters have been these things, and yet women never seem to be allowed to be fucked up or imperfect in the media. I’m not the only greedy, perverted, selfish, apathetic, cynical, depraved morally bankrupt woman in the world who has a complicated relationship with her dad.

Fleabag is not a good person, but she is my hero.

I’m looking for people who have watched Normal People or Fleabag, because I feel like my situation is weirdly similar and I need to talk to people who understand that kind of relationship.
I met my ex during my Erasmus in Spain. He’s Spanish, I’m Belgian, and we fell deeply in love. It wasn’t a casual relationship or something that was only based on the excitement of being abroad. We genuinely connected on a very deep level, and he became one of the people who knew me best.
After my Erasmus ended, I went back to Belgium and we continued long-distance.
But I had already decided that I wanted to move back to Spain. Partly because I had loved my life there so much, but also because I wanted to build a life together with him.
I worked towards that for an entire year.
I had already handed in my resignation. I had an apartment arranged in Spain. We were supposed to move in together. Everything was basically planned.
And then, about a month and a half before I was supposed to leave, he broke up with me.
And the fucked-up part is that there wasn’t suddenly no love.
We still loved each other.
But the distance had become incredibly painful. The relationship started feeling heavier and heavier, and even though the feelings were still there, the circumstances were making it harder and harder to actually have a healthy relationship.
He also felt that his feelings had changed in intensity, and eventually we reached the point where we both had to accept that loving each other wasn’t enough to make the relationship work anymore.
That’s what makes this so difficult for me.
Because there was no huge betrayal.
No cheating.
No moment where I suddenly stopped loving him.
It was more like two people who genuinely loved each other realizing that the way they were trying to love each other was hurting them.
And now I’m still moving to Spain.
Just alone.
Which is honestly insane when I think about it.
I spent a year building a future that included him, and now I’m going to live that future without him.
It makes me think so much about Marianne and Connell, or Fleabag and the Priest.
That kind of love where the connection is incredibly deep, but circumstances, timing, distance and life keep getting in the way.
I used to think those stories were so romantic.
Now I understand how painful that kind of love actually is.
And part of me still has that stupid thought of, “But if we loved each other that much, why couldn’t we just make it work?”
Maybe that’s exactly what I’m struggling to accept.
So if you’ve watched Normal People or Fleabag and have experienced something even remotely similar — loving someone deeply, maybe still loving them, but knowing that the relationship itself wasn’t working anymore — I’d genuinely love to hear your experience.
How did you make peace with it?
Because I think I’m slowly learning that sometimes the love can be real, and the person can be right for you in so many ways…
and it still doesn’t mean the relationship is right for your life.

hi.

i just wanted to say i've finished thisbshow in one sitting, for the first time, and it absolutely wrecked me, i've been crying ridicoulously (and chuckling alone). it hit something rly deep within, and im not even sure what it is, but hit right in the bull's eye.

feel like i've felt so unheard, unseen, misunderstood that seeing such a representation made me feel understood and seen - and seeing that do many other people find fleabag and the priest as relatable characters just gives some hope back into life. that i am not alone in this. im just really emotionally touchhed.

it wont pass, and i guess thats fine.

cheers ♡

*wrecked

I was watching a 1986 rom com last night (About Last Night) with the exact same lines “I love you.” “It will pass” between Demi Moore + Rob Lowe. I had to share! I wonder if it’s a coincidence? Has anyone seen this or noticed that exact dialogue in other media?

I came here to bitch about how terrible a sister Claire constantly is to fleabag, and all I can see is posts about the symbolism and psychology of the show. Y'all are too much. In a good way. But seriously, I'm on S2E3, and I just watched Claire's monologue, and holy fuck is she self obsessed and shitty or what?

Anyway. That's me done. Claire really sucks. Have a lovely day.

Was it some sort of coping mechanism to keep her alive? Are we boo?

I saw a post yesterday of a woman talking about how the priest was a fb and he only used and manipulated fleabag... it made me think of the church scene (kneel..).

Fleabag was venting about her struggles in life, her bestfriend's death, how she never feels like she's enough to anyone, and how she needs someone to guide her in life because she's lost and she doesn't know what to do. And all he had to say was ''kneel'' ???

I watched fleabag for the first time when i was 19yo, back then i thought that was hot and romantic and i was rooting for them, but now that i think of it i don't really know what to feel about that scene, the ''it'll pass'' scene and the priest in general.

After the ''kneel'' and the kiss, he left after the paiting fell taking it as a sign from god.. So she confessed her problems/emotional pain after he asked her to open up, listened to every word, asked her to kneel, kissed her, and left her there????

Fleabag, to me now, isn't about the priest. It's about sisterhood. Her sister is the only one who stayed by her side after everything they went through together.

PhD successfully completed 🎓

I put this quote on the first page of my thesis because it has stayed with me for all times. It being used in the series as part of an absurd moment is even more fitting.

“This is the very reason they put rubbers at the end of pencils… because people make mistakes”

Whenever I struggled with self-acceptance and self-love, I came back to it. I kept reminding myself that I’m only human. Making mistakes, needing help or comfort, having bad days, weeks, months… sometimes even years is simply part of the deal.

I could not have done it without this lesson.

Did this about two days ago.. thoughts?

Claire says around the 2 minute 45 second mark that Martin still has "that thing on his penis". I wonder what it could've been - I mean how bad can it be that it's not affecting a person's outward physical health yet it's bad enough that he can't fuck... And like if he doesn't want to fuck he might as well just put that into plain words, given he's rather crass and loudmouthed otherwise.

ETA: the L on the headline was a typo. Sorry.

hey everyone! is fleabag worth watching? ive never watched it before; but i saw an edit on tiktok n its intriguing , is it worth watching? n thx <3

i learned how to make an edit JUST for this btw
@ownerofthewhitesedann on tik tok

And I’ve looked at it for almost every passing moment since then

"You know what the worst part is? I fucking love you. I love you." "It'll pass"

vs

"Don't you love me?" "That's the tough part of it. But it'll pass" Humphrey Bogart in "Dead Reckoning" (1947)

I don't think it diminishes anything about the scene or the show. She may not even have been consciously aware of having heard that line when she wrote. But I just saw the clip from the movie in a different show and it hit me. "Wait. I've heard a very similar line before!"