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Review: 'Fleabag' stage version shows off 'fabulous' Phoebe Waller-Bridge

A small thing that turns into a huge thing, the way Phoebe Waller-Bridge's solo stage version of "Fleabag" did recently on television, typically hits a wall of passive/dismissive resistance once it's officially popular. Not as good as the hype. Not as good as all those Emmys claimed.

But you know? It was. It is. Whatever the screen size, I can't think of a savvier recent stage-to-screen adaptation, certainly not in the six years since Waller-Bridge first tried out

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