The monologue is essentially the first series of the show, but incredibly pared down to roughly an hour of dialogue. Indeed it is a persistent condition that ails women—accompanied by delightful period jokes brought by Fleabag—that stems from a lot of societal norms and expectations smeared with bias and bigotry. According to Metacritic's aggregate of decade-end lists, Fleabag was the second-highest ranked show of the 2010s.

In 2013, Fleabag made its debut as a one-woman show in sixty-seater venue the Big Belly, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe's Underbelly.It has all the wit, heart and fourth-walling of the series and it really felt as if you were a fly on the wall, watching the series be filmed, rather than reading the book on your couch covered in Belvita crumbs (just me? Fleabag is the nickname of the central character, written and performed by Waller-Bridge: a young woman, with no filter, no taboos, and no shame, who is also dealing with grief, failure, and rejection.

There’s something endearing about seeing woman’s trials and tribulations, her glaring faults, and the obnoxious aspects of her personality which make her all the more real in this dark comedy that one can’t help but enjoy. As Matthew Neale pointed out in NME, this is somewhat ironic, because Fleabag is seen masturbating to one of Obama's speeches in the pilot of the show. This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees.Titled Mouche [ fr] (French for 'fly', the insect), it started airing on 3 June 2019 on pay channel Canal+. This special edition of the play is released alongside Fleabag's first West End run at Wyndham's Theatre, London. Another thing is coffee, and this has to be consumed with so much care and precision that if I were dropped back into the Middle Ages, if I didn't immediately perish from boredom / lack of running water / people smelling bad and being annoying, I could probably enjoy a fruitful career in alchemy. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. At Metacritic, the first series received a weighted average score of 88 out of 100, based on 19 critics, [21] while the second series received a score of 96, based on 21 critics, both signifying "universal acclaim".