nataliamagou

Prior to starting this series, I had never heard of Fleabag, nor had I heard of Phoebe Waller-Bridge, as it was neither on netflix, nor on any other popular streaming platform in my country.

After watching Fleabag, I realised how much I was missing not knowing about a series like this and I am a million times grateful to have come across the ultimate genius called Phoebe Waller-Bridge.

This series is so well-written, intelligent and touching in a weird way, that sometimes you find yourself crying after a hard laugh, laughing after just wiping your tears or maybe having both a good cry and laugh! (I'm definitely gonna show this if anyone ever asks me to define tragicomedy).

It manages to be unexpected, while finding complex but simple at the same time ways to catch you by surprise or give you exactly what you want.

This show is a big win, and I'm sure you'll notice it too after watching it!

When it came out, everyone expected a mainstream gay love story movie, or a bad adaptation of the book, but it soon turned out that this movie had no need of dystopian predictions. I could eternally speak about how good the image, the music or the actors were, but I will point out one thing; it managed to make the viewers feel everything, as if they were in the actors' shoes. Doesn't matter if you're a woman or a man, if you're straight or gay, if you live in Italy or not, if you're 17 or 47, you just get the feeling!

Only defeat is that it feels like there's a big age gap between the characters, even though there's actually not so much, and makes it kind of unrealistic (although love has no age apparently).