This is what we're watching: "Fleabag" is the perfect tragicomedy that strikes with frankness

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"Flea" came out in 2016. Phoebe Waller-Bridge scripted her own play and also played the main character. It's about as original as it gets.

Fleabag is a two-season, six-episode series in which a young girl tries to enjoy life. She suffers from loneliness, misunderstanding of her family, misses her dead friend and tries to keep the cafe afloat.

Both seasons of "Fleabag" are wonderful, but they are completely different from each other. The first is more aggressive, chaotic. In the second, a love story is told, and the through plot becomes really important.

"Rubbish" from the very first scene impresses with its frankness, openness, freedom. “I'm not that obsessed with sex. I just can’t stop thinking about him, ”says the main character at the beginning of the first season. Later, she explains that she is more attracted to nerve and fear than physical interaction, and gradually it turns out that casual sex compensates for the inability to have a healthy relationship with surrounding.

But Waller Bridge strikes a balance between the scary and the funny, and so even that problem becomes the basis for jokes. Here it is easy to draw parallels with the series Bo Jack Horseman or Sex Education, where irony makes serious statements more sincere.

Ugly men, an evil stepmother, a control-obsessed sister, a sexy priest - Waller Bridge comes up with the brightest characters even if he is going to show them on the screen only a couple of times. Where the standard sitcom relies on sketchiness, Fleabag uses absurdity and fear.

An already beautifully written series comes to life thanks to the absence of a fourth wall. The main character constantly comments on what is happening and looks into the camera, as if waiting for the viewer's reaction. And only in these monologues is she sincere, so her words really look like they were told in secret.

It seems that the only problem with "Fleabag" is timing: it's just that Phoebe Waller-Bridge did not pump out dozens of seasons from history, putting all the events into 12 episodes that can be mastered in one evening.