Episode #2.6
- Episode aired May 17, 2019
- TV-MA
- 26m
As the wedding draws nearer, the relationship between Fleabag and the Priest becomes more intense - but how will it be resolved?As the wedding draws nearer, the relationship between Fleabag and the Priest becomes more intense - but how will it be resolved?As the wedding draws nearer, the relationship between Fleabag and the Priest becomes more intense - but how will it be resolved?
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- TriviaThe graffiti on the bus station says ''zivote'' (written in Serbian Cyrillic), which basically means ''oh life'', translated from Serbian to English.
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The Priest: Love is awful. It's awful. It's painful. It's frightening. Makes you doubt yourself, judge yourself, distance yourself from the other people in your life, makes you selfish, makes you creepy, makes you obbsessed with your hair, makes you cruel, makes you say and do thing you never thought you would do.
Claire: There's something wrong with your priest.
The Priest: It's all any of us want, and it's hell when we get there. So, no wonder it's something we don't want to do on our own. I was taught if we're born with love then life is about choosing the right place to put it. People talk about that a lot, it feeling right, "When it feels right, it's easy", but I'm not sure that's true. It takes strength to know what's right. And love isn't something that weak people do. Being a romantic takes a hell of a lot of hope. I think what they mean is when you find somebody that you love, it feels like hope. So thank you for bringing us all together here today. To take words from this book of love: be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord.
- Crazy creditsThe main title appears at the end of the episode instead of its usual place near the beginning.
- ConnectionsFeatured in MsMojo: Top 10 Most Heartbreaking Series Finales (2020)
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Written by Zachary Cockrell, Heath Fogg, Brittany Howard, and Steven William Johnson,
Performed by Alabama Shakes
The wedding of Godmother (Olivia Colman) and Dad (Bill Paterson) approaches, and a family dinner introduces Fleabag (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) to The Priest (Andrew Scott). There is immediate chemistry between them, but due to his vocation, nothing can happen. Meanwhile Claire's (Sian Clifford) marriage is breaking down, caused by the suspicion about Martin's (Brett Gelman) pass at Fleabag, and by her spending more time out of the country, for work.
There's one immediate and obvious reason for the season two improvement. In the first episodes, any love interest for Fleabag wasn't a match for her wit or temperament, they were a punchline. Here Andrew Scott's "Hot Priest" is a fully rounded character, with his own issues and can both punch back and enjoy sparring with her. The moment when starts to catch her doing her asides to camera is a truly brilliant idea but the shows so wonderfully written it never has to explicitly investigate why that's happening, or, for example, have Fleabag verbally explain her crushing guilt to him. The impending wedding gives the season more of a narrative throughflow too, rather than just a series of events, it's building to something, and provides reasons for the characters to interact. It's just funnier all round though, better written, more moving and, as it appears at the moment that this is all we're ever going to get, tinged with a bittersweet sadness - particularly in the final moments.
Just glorious, wonderful TV.
- southdavid
- Jul 7, 2020
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- Runtime26 minutes
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