Three reasons to see the dark and delicious "Fleabag"

Phoebe Waller-Bridge, in the skin of "Fleabag"

"Fleabag" is the best kept secret of current television: the series has presented last week its second and last season on Amazon Prime, a series of episodes that have confirmed the brutal honesty and power of the most cynical and human comedy at a time. of television and the genius of its creator, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, one of the most important voices on the screen today, to the point that Daniel Craig insisted that he work on the dialogues of the 25th film of James Bond.

Considered by specialists as one of the best comedies of the decade, here are three reasons why you should not miss this series.

LAUGH not to cry

"Fleabag" does what the best comedies do: use humor as a corrosive agent, as a way to overcome the abysses of life: death, betrayal, unsatisfactory family and love relationships, frustration, series on a woman (unnamed) who suffers the loss of her best friend while holding a business in decline, undergoes nervous perfection at the edge of the nervous breakdown of her sister and tries to accept the new couple, a teacher manipulator , on his part. Father Twelve episodes of desperate frankness and suffering, a series of overwhelming sincerity … and very bad mood.

"IT WAS ALL"

Now, behind this incorrect humor of her protagonist, there is a woman who does evil, often on purpose, because of a deep pain that does not let her go forward and that generates something familiar to everyone This feeling of "This leads to all sorts of excesses, vices and indulgences." The series is both cynical and black, and deeply empathic, humanistic.

And at a time when the industry seeks to balance the historical balance with incredibly strong women, it's refreshing to see a character far from perfection and the concept of "strength" spreading across screens, a protagonist deeply damaged, but who does not ask Live like that fate. Which does not imply that he does not repent.

PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE

But if "Fleabag" works, it's mostly thanks to the histrionics of its protagonist, the creator of the series, Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Responsible for other successes such as "Crashing" (on Netflix) and "Killing Eve" (Cablevision Flow), Waller-Bridge created the character of "Fleabag" for a theatrical solo that eventually jumped to the scene. screen, and this shows that he knows every dark corner of the character and he feels comfortable, like an alter ego, because he even does work, to perfection, the most consumed resource for break the fourth wall.