Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag is back with a vengeance for a second series and it’s as wildly inappropriate as ever.
We waited over a year for the BBC comedy’s return and to hear her awkward quips and side-eyes to the fourth wall was worth every minute – and if we’d have known Godmother, played by Oscar winner Olivia Colman, was going to talk candidly about her Priest’s mother ‘originally being a lesbian’ we would’ve considered waiting longer.
There’s a slight change in tone with this new season though. If series one was had a gentle dark undertone sprinkled on top like a dusting of icing sugar on a Victoria sponge (until of course the finale episode where someone got a bit heavy handed and dumped it on top), this time around around the icing sugar has been swapped out for a thicker fondant. It still tastes good though, it’s just a slightly different cake with gift vouchers for counselling and a miscarriage added in.
The first episode picks up from where we left off, with family tensions bursting through the seems at Fleabag’s dad’s engagement dinner. And as expected, it’s only a matter of time before the whole thing goes Pete Tong. ‘Cool, sweary Priest,’ played by Andrew Scott, is also thrown into the mix and looks set to be the bridge between our titular character and her dysfunctional family – if she doesn’t manage to tempt him to the dark side and bed him first, of course.
Once again Waller-Bridge nails the sheer complication and relentlessness of family in all its ugly reality. But where can things go for Fleabag? With her relationship with finicky sister Claire (Sian Clifford) pushed to the extremes, brother-in-law Martin (Brett Gelman) continuing with his twisted manipulation, Dad’s (Bill Paterson) useless communication and soon-to-be step-mum’s grating jibes, surely it’s only a matter of time before things get too much? At least she’s set the record straight that adding pine nuts to salad does make us grown up.
Fleabag is available to stream on BBC iPlayer.
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