Revisiting Fleabag’s heartbreakingly sincere confession with Phoebe Waller-Bridge: ‘Damage is attractive…’| Scene Stealer

But, all through the run of 12 episodes and two seasons, we hardly ever get a glimpse of that facet. After all, Fleabag hates being sentimental, she needs to place a courageous entrance; and in Waller-Bridge’s personal phrases, she by no means wished to ‘bore’ us. Us being the viewers she would so usually flip to, after which break the fourth wall with, nearly at all times in secret till the Priest’s look in second season.

But within the fourth episode of the primary season, when Fleabag and her sister Claire are out for type of a meditation camp, and the place she crosses paths with the banker who refused her mortgage for the cafe, that’s the place we see Fleabag shed a little bit of that exuberant, attractive persona to tell us in regards to the immeasurable ache she’s been carrying since her pal’s tragic loss of life.

The banker and Fleabag are sitting in an open inexperienced area and sharing a cigarette. The banker has been accused of sexual harassment beforehand, and so he was within the space to work on himself by way of a coaching camp. Fleabag, as cited, was there together with her sibling. Sitting down in that serene atmosphere, the place they each had turned up for refuge from the world’s noise, the unlikely pair kind an odd bond, constructed on vulnerabilities and need. The banker needs nothing greater than to ‘move on,’ after which as if somebody someplace had left a faucet open in his chest, he spills his innermost ideas in essentially the most poetic however easy traces: “I want to take clean cups out of the dishwasher and put them in the cupboard. And the next day, I want to watch my wife drink from them.”

Fleabag, who has been drawing on her cigarette and been silently listening to the person all this whereas, instantly says just one dialogue, and that’s sufficient to tell us her frame of mind. “I just want to cry, all the time,” she says, and a shadow of unhappiness passes rapidly on her face. Fleabag, although by no means addressed, may need been clinically depressed since her shut pal’s passing. Going about her life with an armour of braveness and confidence she didn’t actually really feel in her soul. This makes her much less despicable, extra humane, extra one together with her viewers.

Speaking in regards to the sequence, and of how broken characters are enticing, Phoebe had earlier advised The Guardian, “Damage is indicative of vulnerability, which I think always feels a little dangerous. It is evidence that a person can feel deeply, that they can be open … then that delicious wall goes up and we just want to scramble over it and save (and feel) the person. It’s irresistible. I also think damage is a glimpse of something honest, and that’s always attractive…Fleabag was always performing for the camera to distract both herself and the audience from her misery. Her drive was to entertain you, so she could never allow herself to be a victim for fear of boring you.”

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And that’s one factor Fleabag has by no means been. Even from the deepest pit of her distress, she made positive to interact and entertain us, primarily as a result of that was the way it made sense for her to go on in a world with out her cafe associate, her greatest buddy, her Boo.

Fleabag is obtainable to stream on Amazon Prime Video.