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    Turning Persuasion into Jane Austen’s Fleabag was a truly terrible idea

    Jul 15, 2022 3 minutes

    Persuasion has only been available on Netflix for a handful of hours, and so there’s no real way of knowing whether Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the star of Fleabag, has seen it yet. Hopefully it isn’t too late to stop her, because the sweeping wave of full-body horror that will overcome her within seconds of pressing play is bound to hurt.

    Because, if it weren’t for Phoebe Waller-Bridge, this new version of Persuasion would have never been

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