It has been a long wait for Fleabag to return to our screen and it was worth the wait. I caught the first series online on BBC 3 via the iPlayer before it got a release on the main BBC channels it was an immense success.
The show writer and stars, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, after the series aired in 2016 the show received a Bafta for her performance as the titular character. Away from Fleabag she as writing and producing the equally brilliant Killing Eve for the BBC.
Finally we can catch-up with Fleabag and find out if she’s as angry and cynical as ever.
The new six-part series is set a year on and opens with an incredibly awkward dinner party. On the one side of Fleabag, there’s her softly-spoken father (Bill Paterson) and his gloriously passive aggressive partner, played by the newly-anointed Oscar winner Olivia Colman.
On the other, there’s her sister (Sian Clifford) who she hasn’t spoken to since the disastrous ‘Sex-hibition’ at the end of series one, and her weasel-like husband (Brett Gelman).There were enough jokes about paedophiles, miscarriages, alcoholics, lewd sex acts and Catholic priests in Fleabag’s second series opener to keep Ofcom phone lines red hot.
And beside her is a Catholic priest, played by Andrew Scott, who Fleabag can’t sum up and therefore dismissively cast aside as she’s accustomed to doing. He loves to drink and smoke and takes a laissez-faire approach to the chaos that ensues during the evening. There will probably shagging by the next episode.
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