BBC’s Fleabag Series Two Review: Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Andrew Scott Are Stunning on Screen Together

BBC has some great shows for fans all around the world to watch and I want to take a moment to shed light on the series Fleabag that I have just discovered and fell in love with. Specifically, I want to talk about the second season or “series” that you can now watch on Amazon Prime. Starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge as the main character who is never given a name (fans lovingly call her Fleabag) as a funny, blatantly honest, and troubled woman in London. Fleabag often breaks the fourth wall, which is never noticed by anyone until we get to the second season when Andrew Scott is introduced.

Scott is probably most known for his entrancing performance as the villain Moriarty in BBC’s Sherlock. Scott is known as The Priest in season two; a young, somewhat alcoholic priest who is brought in to perform the wedding ceremony for Fleabag’s father and new bride. While Fleabag doesn’t subscribe to religion, she and The Priest develop a friendship that clearly wants to be more, but because sexual relations are not allowed in the Catholic priesthood, it adds to the drama and tension between the two.

While Fleabag is still dealing with the loss of her best friend and mother, her father marrying her godmother, and her sister angry at her because her sister’s husband tried to initiate something sexual with her, the main storyline of the second series is the budding relationship between Fleabag and The Priest. It is truly one of the best relationships I have seen on TV. Waller-Bridge and Scott have this amazing chemistry between them that radiates off camera, with the two characters trying to find the answers that they’re both so desperately searching for.

One of the hilarious aspects of this British comedy in the second season is The Priest being the one to call out Fleabag on her habit of breaking the fourth wall. There’s so many incidents where she will go to speak to the camera and while everyone else in the show doesn’t notice, it’s The Priest asking her “where did you go” and what is she doing. Even to the point of him also breaking the fourth wall with her. There are so many awkward, hilarious moments in this season, which is only six episodes long and each episode is under thirty minutes.

As much as Fleabag is hilarious, it is also heartbreaking. While the end of episode four gives fans what they want between Fleabag and The Priest, which should be categorized under “poetic cinema”; we ultimately know that this is not something that can last forever considering he is a man of the Church. Again, Waller-Bridge and Scott are so perfectly able to convey so many emotions on screen and our hearts break within the final minutes of the series. While we wish we could live in their happy times together forever, it was a fitting way to end the series, and while the second series has been out for about two months, I’m sure it’s not something people have really checked out.

If you’re a fan of Scott’s and are excited that he is in Black Mirror’s upcoming fifth season, watch Fleabag season two. You should watch the first season as well, but if you want to just skip to the second season, you’ll be caught up quickly. Waller-Bridge is also the woman behind the hit series Killing Eve, so if you want to appreciate all of her work, please check out Fleabag. Unfortunately, the second series was the final series, but it stands on its own so well that you want it preserved exactly how it is.

Have you watched Fleabag and what were your thoughts of her and The Priest’s chemistry throughout season two?

Tia Fabi

A girl with too many fandoms to count.