Fleabag
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| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
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| Original network | BBC Three |
| Picture format | HDTV |
| Original release | 21 July 2016 |
Fleabag is a six-part British comedy television series set in London. It was produced by Two Brothers Pictures for digital channel BBC Three and in a co-production agreement with Amazon Studios. The show premiered on 21 July 2016.Phoebe Waller-Bridge writes and stars as the main character, Fleabag, a young woman attempting to navigate modern life in London.
The show is adapted from Waller-Bridge's 2013 Edinburgh one-woman play of the same name which won the Fringe First Award. The initial idea of the character of Fleabag came from a challenge by a friend, where Waller-Bridge was tasked with creating a sketch for a 10-minute section in a stand-up storytelling night.
Waller-Bridge's sister composed the music, and her mother appears in a cameo as the lecturer during the feminist talk in the first episode.
Following the initial release on BBC Three the series was broadcast on BBC Two between 21 August and 25 September 2016. It was picked up by the on-demand Amazon Video service and premiered in the United States on 16 September 2016.
Fleabag has received positive reviews. Metacritic gave it an 88 score, with Emily Nussbaum from The New Yorker calling it "a precision black-humor mechanism, a warped and affecting fable about one single woman’s existence." Mo Ryan at Variety called it scathingly funny. Mike Hale in The New York Times praised the show for its "restless, almost feral energy and its slap-in-the-face attitude." Tim Goodman from The Hollywood Reporter saw the show as "heralding a very distinctive new voice on television."Alan Sepinwall from HitFix described the show as "something achingly beautiful."
The complete first series was released on DVD on the 3rd October 2016 by Dazzler Media.
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