Fleabag
- TV sitcom
- BBC Three
- 2016 - 2019
- 12 episodes (2 series)
Comedy series starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge as a woman living in London whose life is a mess. Also features Sian Clifford, Bill Paterson, Olivia Colman, Andrew Scott, Brett Gelman and more.
Streaming rank this week: 237
Press clippings Page 31
Fleabag is an unflinching, clever look at tricky youth
Head to iPlayer now and learn to love an anti-hero who is just as clueless, skint, horny and selfish as the rest of us.
Kasia Delgado, Radio Times, 21st July 2016Fleabag: modern life is rubbish is BBC3's newest comedy
Greedy. Perverted. Selfish. Apathetic. Cynical. Depraved. Just some of the adjectives that the titular Fleabag uses to describe her life in the opening episode of this new BBC3 sitcom and over the course of the half hour, she definitely manages to tick the boxes on all of the above.
Colin McMahon, The Custard TV, 21st July 2016Here's why you need to be watching Fleabag
You'll spend a lot of time empathetically wincing and howling at the audacity of Fleabag's latest move, but the occasional emotional moments - such as the aforementioned tragedy - still creep up on you, to cast a small, but often present, shadow over things.
Rachel McGrath, The Huffington Post, 21st July 2016Fleabag: a gloriously rude update of Bridget Jones
Is eye-popping female sex comedy your sort of thing? If not, best look away now.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 21st July 2016TV preview: Fleabag, BBC Three
Why do some TV comedies work while others fail to hit the mark? Don't ask me. If I knew I'd have a better job than this. Is it the writing? Is it the casting? Phoebe Waller-Bridge wrote and starred in C4 houseshare comedy Crashing and now BBC Three's Fleabag, and while the first one whiffed a bit the latest one is the real deal.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 20th July 2016Phoebe Waller-Bridge's second sitcom of the year is a more promising prospect than her first, the underpowered property-guardians comedy Crashing. Fleabag stars Waller-Bridge as a sexually, spiritually and career- confused twentysomething, who regularly breaks the fourth wall to divulge grisly details of one-night stands and other improprieties. On the face of it, she's not the most sympathetic of characters, but there's a deeper poignancy that reveals itself across this smart and sardonic series.
The Guardian, 18th July 2016Phoebe Waller-Bridge interview
Here's what Phoebe had to say when I caught up with her for a chat...
Elliot Gonzalez, I Talk Telly, 16th July 2016Meet Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the British Lena Dunham
She's filthy-minded, desperate for connection and masturbates to Barack Obama while she watches the news ... BBC Three's new sitcom has a heroine who will chime with twentysomethings everywhere.
Julia Raeside, The Guardian, 8th July 2016BBC Three orders Fleabag series
BBC Three has ordered Fleabag, a six-part comedy series from Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the creator of Channel 4's Crashing.
British Comedy Guide, 20th April 2016