#fleabag 2

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FLEABAG | 2.06

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Title: Actually God🦊🙌✝️

Backstory: You and The Priest are friends, but he does have a certain bone to pick with you.

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My friend made this clip as a tribute to Fleabag and the Priest. Disclaimer: I don’t own Fleabag or the song “Eine Kleine” by Kenshi Yonezu, or the subs (Engsub by indra adryan and Vietsub by Lunuous Trịnh). 

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Did we ever consider that Fleabag’s real name is “that dessert”?

[the-gongoozler]

I am genuinely heartbroken by Fleabag (spoilers)

I mean, the ending is just too much. Fleabag and the Priest were so gorgeous and loving and magnetic. The guilt that they felt over their feelings was painful and heartbreaking and human. 

Not only did they understand and see each other in a way that no one else did, but the passion and love that was put into every single kiss, the tenderness that was held between them... the honesty in their physical reactions... 

Sex is demonized in so many places and it’s just a human urge. It’s a want to have another person, a want to be seen and held and adored and loved, it’s a bodily function. While some do not want it or are not interested, it is a means of feeling close to someone that you desperately want to be close to.

And the Priest’s “it’ll pass”.... God. I know it will.

One day, they won’t think of each other. One day they won’t hurt. One day she might find someone and he will be so lovingly devoted to God that really, they will be happy. 

But that “what if” will always be there.

When he goes to the Quaker meetings, or even just looks at the little Oatmeal guy, he’ll think of her t*ts and laugh.

When she sees a church, she might hesitate to step forward just because she’s nervous she might see him. Hell, she might decide not to get married in a church just in case for some reason he would see that.

I bet neither of them can see a G&T can without being a little bit forlorn. 

They might be happy. But in quiet moments, they’ll wonder. The Priest will know that his life would have been fucked if he chose her over God, but would that alternate universe be better? Would he be happier? Would his highs have been higher, even if there were more lows? If she had gone to his church again, even when he said not to, would have have chosen her? If she begged him not to go, would he have stayed? If she told him that she needed him, what would he have done?

They will always have that moment. They’ll always have the perfectness of their ‘what if’. 

Maybe they would have broken up, divorced, hated each other, left each other in ruins. 

Maybe they would have been happy.

[fyeah-olivia-colman]

Bonus:

Fleabag Series 2: Episode 1 

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I just need to talk about one tiny bit in Fleabag for a hot second, from a writing POV. (No, not that bit.)

But this here is why I love this show.

(Spoilers under cut.)

 The scene with the Priest in her flat (NO, NOT THAT BIT) first deploys a very effective technique of undercutting emotion with humour, right? There’s been the confessional incident the week before, the Priest is trying to explain and open up a bit and suddenly there’s a man at Fleabag’s door, calling out for casual sex. It’s a well-used technique because it’s not only funny, but it stops the energy descending into, ‘lets sit here and have an emotional outpouring’ – it keeps things light, but we still see the Priest’s conflict, we get an impression of his background without ever getting details. Very important in keeping a character interesting, making the audience work and think, and giving us leeway to draw our own conclusions.

But the bit I really love is when Fleabag goes to the door to get rid of the guy and then the few lines when she comes back to the priest. Dialogue example (mostly paraphrased):

Man: wasn’t I any good at it?

FB: You were amazing. You made me come nine times.

Blah blah blah, cut to living room. (Though lol at ‘you’re a saint’, because continued themes are great.)

FB to Priest, who hasn’t been able to avoid hearing: sorry about that.

Priest: I’m not going to ask…

 …nine times!?

FB: I just said that to get rid of him.

 Literally five lines, and yet the work they do. The Priest is trying to stay above it, he’s not judging, he’s a Priest…but he’s also 0_0, and there’s the notion he’s comparing that information to his own previous sex life. He’s a man suddenly, he can’t help being curious and a bit intimidated by someone else’s prowess. It brings it home what this whole series has been about with him, the juxtaposition of his role versus the fact that he’s, like everyone, a human being.

And Fleabag’s reaction – even though the info is true, the guy did make her come nine times…she immediately, without thinking or hesitation, says what every man would want to hear in that situation. She lied, the man is not a rival, he’s not that good really…she’s every woman in that moment, deflecting a situation from a man’s ego. It’s a perfect microcosm of how men and women interact on a daily basis, all in a couple of sentences, and it shows how ingrained it is in women to sidestep difficulties in sexual rivalry.

And further to that – the night before this scene takes place she had the best sex of her life, and now she’s in a situation with the man she actually wants to have sex with. PWB could have had her shag the lawyer at any point in the show, but no, she waited until this critical moment. And he could have been a terrible shag, she could have regretted it, it could have been the worst sex ever…but nope. Because it would be easy to say ‘casual shag = terrible sex, meaningful sex = best in the world’…but this is her reflection of how reality is, and the truth is that sometimes a casual hook-up is the best thing ever, and there’s no need to apologise for that.

Anyway. I love the writing on this show. Twenty seconds of screen time, if that, and it encapsulates so much. I aspire to be this perfect.

[rachelmygod]

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