Home > Fleabag > Season 1 « TV Series Page Fleabag: Season 1 (2016) SEASON: Season 1 Season 1 Season 2 Want to see Episode List Season 1 Fleabag Critics Consensus Clever and viciously funny, Fleabag is a touching, wildly inventive comedy about a complicated young woman navigating the aftermath of trauma. 100% TOMATOMETER Critic Ratings: 40 92% Audience Score User Ratings: 693 NEW More Info × Close Want to see Super Reviewer Submit Super Reviewer Edit Review Episodes 1 Episode 1 Air date: Sep 16, 2016 A sexually-liberated, irritable woman navigates modern life in London in the series premiere of this comedy. More 2 Episode 2 Air date: Sep 16, 2016 Haunted by memories of her dead best friend, dumped by her emotionally-fragile boyfriend and desperately trying to sell her stolen goods, Fleabag attempts to rekindle a romance to distract her from the mayhem of her life. More 3 Episode 3 Air date: Sep 16, 2016 Fleabag helps her inappropriate brother-in-law buy a present for Claire, who is organizing her own surprise birthday party. Meanwhile, Fleabag reconnects with a toothy friend. More 4 Episode 4 Air date: Sep 16, 2016 Fleabag and Claire reluctantly visit a female-only, silent retreat arranged by their father; however, their enforced silence is interrupted by an unusual weekend workshop, secrets coming to light and a surprising connection with an old acquaintance. More 5 Episode 5 Air date: Sep 16, 2016 On the anniversary of their mother's death, Fleabag and Claire return to the family home for the annual memorial lunch. Meanwhile, things get heated between Fleabag and her godmother, who muscles her way into the event and reveals plans for her Sex-hibition. More 6 Episode 6 Air date: Sep 16, 2016 In the first-season finale, Fleabag takes a date to her godmother's Sex-hibition only to discover a few shocks are in store for her, including a declaration of love, a familiar piece of work and an entire wall of surprises. More Fleabag: Season 1 Videos 0:33 Fleabag: Season 1 Clip - Walk of Shame 0:59 Fleabag: Season 1 Clip - Buying Tampons 1:56 Fleabag: Season 1 Trailer 0:32 Fleabag: Season 1 Clip - Fart View All Videos (4) Fleabag: Season 1 Photos View All Photos (8) Tv Season Info A sexually-liberated, irritable woman navigates modern life in London in this comedy. Based on Phoebe Waller-Bridge's play of the same name. Genre: Comedy Network: Amazon Prime Video Premiere Date: Sep 16, 2016 Exec. Producers: Harry Williams, Jack Williams Cast Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Fleabag Ben Aldridge as Guy Bill Paterson as Dad Sian Clifford as Claire Brett Gelman as Martin Jenny Rainsford as Boo Olivia Colman as Godmother Hugh Skinner as Harry Hugh Dennis as Bank Manager Jamie Demetriou as Bus Rodent Show More Cast News & Interviews for Fleabag: Season 1 13 TV Shows You Should Binge-Watch This May People’s Choice 2017 Winners Announced Critics’ Choice TV Winners Announced: Game of Thrones, Silicon Valley Win Best Series View All Fleabag: Season 1 News Episodes 1 Episode 1 Air date: Sep 16, 2016 A sexually-liberated, irritable woman navigates modern life in London in the series premiere of this comedy. More 2 Episode 2 Air date: Sep 16, 2016 Haunted by memories of her dead best friend, dumped by her emotionally-fragile boyfriend and desperately trying to sell her stolen goods, Fleabag attempts to rekindle a romance to distract her from the mayhem of her life. More 3 Episode 3 Air date: Sep 16, 2016 Fleabag helps her inappropriate brother-in-law buy a present for Claire, who is organizing her own surprise birthday party. Meanwhile, Fleabag reconnects with a toothy friend. More 4 Episode 4 Air date: Sep 16, 2016 Fleabag and Claire reluctantly visit a female-only, silent retreat arranged by their father; however, their enforced silence is interrupted by an unusual weekend workshop, secrets coming to light and a surprising connection with an old acquaintance. More 5 Episode 5 Air date: Sep 16, 2016 On the anniversary of their mother's death, Fleabag and Claire return to the family home for the annual memorial lunch. Meanwhile, things get heated between Fleabag and her godmother, who muscles her way into the event and reveals plans for her Sex-hibition. More 6 Episode 6 Air date: Sep 16, 2016 In the first-season finale, Fleabag takes a date to her godmother's Sex-hibition only to discover a few shocks are in store for her, including a declaration of love, a familiar piece of work and an entire wall of surprises. More Critic Reviews for Fleabag Season 1 All Critics (40) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (40) | Rotten (0) Those hungry for an alternative to Lena Dunham's Girls will find plenty of dark relationship humour in this very funny comedy by writer/star Phoebe Waller-Bridge...Fleabag might be full of self loathing but she is very easy to like. Feb 11, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… Jim Schembri 3AW Top Critic Fleabag reminded me of the brave aspects of many of the Sad Clowns we've encountered over the years, who use the tools they know best in order to cope. They're in a battle with grief, despair, loneliness, and worse, and they refuse to succumb. Nov 14, 2016 | Full Review… Matthew Gilbert Boston Globe Top Critic If Fleabag begins as a collection of single-girl moments, patience through a few episodes reveals a fuller, sadder, more multidimensional story anchored by Waller-Bridge's bracing honesty, inventive uses of jumbled time and an abrupt editing style. Sep 6, 2016 | Full Review… Linda Holmes NPR Top Critic [Fleabag] joins the likes of You're the Worst, Transparent and Casual in the realm of gut-punch comedy. Sep 20, 2016 | Full Review… Emma Fraser Observer Top Critic Hilarious heartbreaker. Sep 19, 2016 | Full Review… Ellen Gray Philadelphia Inquirer Top Critic Its theatrical DNA lingers in its fleet style of storytelling: Fleabag is both narrator and actor, turning to the camera to commentate on a scene before seamlessly re-entering it. It's been done before, not often as charmingly. Sep 19, 2016 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review… Jasper Rees Daily Telegraph (UK) Top Critic It's dirty, it's sexy, it's disgusting, it's hilarious - and it's about being a girl. As in, a real girl. Scared? You should be. Feb 13, 2019 | Full Review… Ailis Brennan GQ Magazine [UK] ...an honest-to-hell portrait of urban alienation and its tragicomic hues. It's jittery, droll, pathetic, amusing and unapologetically confrontational. Feb 5, 2019 | Full Review… Rahul Desai Film Companion The script is razor sharp and fizzes with a daring, deadpan wit. Watching Waller-Bridge's performance, it becomes all too clear she must have written the comedy. Jan 25, 2019 | Full Review… Daisy Wyatt iNews.co.uk The show's journey is dark and emotionally complicated, and made all the better by clever pacing/editing and Fleabag's constant need to talk to the camera, usually during the most unlikely moments. Dec 3, 2018 | Full Review… Nick Venable CinemaBlend View All Critic Reviews (40) Audience Reviews for Fleabag: Season 1 3d ago Wittiest, funniest comedy on TV right now. Zak M 4d ago LOVE!! Just the best show ever. Pamela J 5d ago Genuinely awful, unfunny, blatantly out to shock rubbish. Yet it's a huge hit because, I can only think, it was on the BBC. It's seems like BBC shows are immune from criticism, no matter how bad. Fleabag is essentially a gross out comedy aimed at women. We live in a era where, probably rightly so, gross out comedy aimed at men is widely ridiculed. This is just as bad as a Men Behaving Badly or American Pie or some rubbish like that. Yet because it's a BBC show with a female lead/ creator, it's not only acceptable, but considered a work of art. The dumbing down of society continues - but more worryingly, dumb comedy is now considered genius. Dan M 6d ago CARRY ON! The greatest television show in the history of the earth as we know it!!! Don't worry, you're not too late to the game, and yes 2016 was so three years ago, but that was Season One, and in true British "take our time" fashion, Season Two is this year fresh. Don't have one of those primo amazon accounts? Good for you, pat yourself hardily on the back. That guy's a jerk, and here's how you can screw him: start your free trial, binge both seasons of Fleabag and promptly cancel your membership. Boom! Don't forget to cancel your membership though, this cannot be stressed enough. Please do not write huffy comments if you fail in this three part process. For feks sake people, it's only three steps: start, binge, stop. Basically a one night tv stand (12 episodes is all), except everyone wins. Right, so who or what the hell is Fleabag? Besides the greatest show in the history of the earth as we know it? It is the brain and body child of the extraordinary Phoebe Waller-Bridges. She of the sharp nose and sharper tongue. Right from the get-go the fourth wall is not just broken but smashed to smithereens, as Fleabag winks, smirks, eyebrow arches, and quips at us through every moment, even the naughty, intimate ones. And yes, there are plenty of those. Fleabag deals with her wacky lays, her wacky family, her wacky friend, her wacky self, but all in the grand Brit tradition of furnishing our comedy with healthy doses of misery, despair, trauma, faith, sex and hidden complexity. Even though Fleabag is a torching tornado without filter, it is not just easy to root for her, it is imperative. Her aim is totally true even when she dives head first into tempting minefields, and the perilous, just can't help herself journey is scream along hilarious. Season One one is revelatory funny. Season Two is simply astonishing. A quenching couple of 6-packs that hits the spot. - hipCRANK John S Aug 14, 2019 Really fun show. Phoebe-Waller Bridge is so much fun to follow around. Witty. Funny. Charming. The show's pacing moves well. Subtle British humor is really full-on display here as well. Good concept, Excellent execution. Erick F Aug 14, 2019 Just watch it. You will know whether or not its for you in the first 5 min. Jarrett M Aug 11, 2019 I made it through one and a half episodes and turned it off. The first time I tried to watch it, I couldn't make it through the first scene because it was traumatizing. A couple of years later, I decided I'd fast-forward through that part since I liked the creator's Killing Eve and have run out of things to watch. But I couldn't get past the feeling of imagining abusive ex-boyfriends blaming me for not being more like Fleabag--whom I can't relate to at all and don't really like. Whereas Villanelle from Eve does make me laugh--it seems like Fleabag is just going for shock value. That yanks me out of the story. I usually tend to think a lot like a movie critic and more often than not, my preferences line up with theirs. Not this time. I can't believe they're unanimous in praise. Cathren K Aug 03, 2019 fast, sparkling, original, irreverent and fresh. great Marco P Jul 26, 2019 Imagine a delicious bowl of soup (or any comfort food) but made by Mauro Colagreco or Chef Ramsay. Fleabag is that perfect combination of comfort and sophistication. I mean, it has the perfect amout of darkness, sadness, drama, controversy, and with perfect timing. Fleabag is PERFECTION. And Phoebe Waller is the best thing that could've happened to Television right now. She is a cathegory on her own. The whole plot, and the story within each chapter is rich and full of originality. And it doesn't stop there, the art direction is a perfect combination of dark and light, full of colour without making it cheesy or tacky. The costumes, the performances (satanding ovation to Olivia Coleman), everything is well thought and put together. Yes, I am obsessed. But it's with reason, go watch it. Mercedes G Jul 23, 2019 Fleabag combines the british dark, absurd humour with tenderness and honesty - it may not be an overstatement to say that Phoebe Waller-Bridge's show is perhaps the best on tv those days. Felipe F See all Audience reviews News & Features 150 Erotic Movies Ranked worst to best! 2019's Most Anticipated 63 movies coming up this year 200 Essential Movies Chosen by RT staff! 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