Review: Fleabag on Amazon — Series 2
Now that the show has won a bunch of Emmy’s will you watch it?
A few years ago, I made the bold claim that Phoebe Waller-Bridge and her show Fleabag would change television. I wasn’t entirely wrong.
While the first series of Fleabag (Brits call seasons “series”) on Amazon Prime failed to create a groundswell, Hollywood did take notice. Waller-Bridge landed plum roles in Goodbye Christopher Robin and a sweet Star Wars franchise role as L3–37 in Solo: A Star Wars Story.
Additionally, she wrote and produced the highly acclaimed Killing Eve. Garnering herself an Emmy nod for writing and helping Sandra Oh win Golden Globe and SAG Awards for her role as the lead Eve Polastri.
Given the trajectory of her career, I feared that Fleabag may end up a one-off. Luckily, I was wrong. Waller-Bridge is currently finished staging Fleabag as a one-woman show at the SoHo Playhouse in New York City and the second series of the show is currently airing on Amazon Prime. While I didn’t see the stage show, I have seen series two of Fleabag.
The second season of Fleabag finds Fleabag (Waller-Bridge) adulting . . . in a Fleabag kind of way. After the bedlam of the first series, it’s much welcomed. But Fleabag being Fleabag, calamity is always right around the…
