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Slate's Spoiler Specials

Fleabag

Slate's Spoiler Specials

Slate Podcasts

Film Reviews,, Tv & Film

3.6724 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week on Spoiler Specials, Marissa Martinelli, Inkoo Kang and Heather Schwedel spoil the Amazon Prime Original series Fleabag. Is the hot priest really that hot? Should there be a season 3? Is the show deserving off all of the hype? All that and more, in spoiler filled detail.

Podcast production by Danielle Hewitt. Engineering by Cameron Drews.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music.

0:03.6

I want to tell you my secret now.

0:06.4

I see dead people.

0:09.5

Silent brain is people.

0:14.1

I need my sister and my daughter.

0:19.0

Roseberg.

0:23.6

What's in the box? Hello and welcome to another Slate spoiler special.

0:26.6

I'm Marissa Martinelli and assistant editor here at Slate, and today we're spoiling Fleabag, which stars Phoebe Waller Bridge as a troubled, sex-loving, fourth wall-breaking woman running a cafe in London.

0:36.6

While the first season of the BBC show was dominated by the mystery of what happened to Fleabag's friend and business partner, Boo,

0:42.9

the second season, which debuted on Amazon just this month, further explores her relationship with her family,

0:48.1

as her father and her godmother prepared to get married, and with the priest who will be performing the ceremony,

0:53.3

played by Andrew Scott.

0:54.7

I'm joined by two of my favorite staff writers here at Slate. In the studio, we have Heather Schwedell.

0:59.4

Hi, Heather. Hi, Marissa. And joining us via Skype is the incomparable Ingu Kang. Hi, Ingu.

1:05.0

Hello, hello. So this show began as a monologue at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe by Phoebe Waller Bridge, who is the star and also the creator.

1:16.6

And I was reading a review in The Independent from that time that said, and I quote,

1:21.9

I doubt if this material will spin off into a long-running radio or television series.

1:28.0

I mean, that's not a ringing endorsement of the monologue, but it's also true in a way.

1:33.2

It did become a television series, but not a long-running television series.

1:37.0

There are two seasons, and the last season, Phoebe Waller Ridge, has been adamant, is the last season.

1:43.0

There will be no more Fleabag.

1:44.5

I don't think she's been that adamant from what I was reading. I feel like she gave a few quotes

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