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'Fleabag' Season One & Phoebe Waller-Bridge

'Fleabag' Season One & Phoebe Waller-Bridge

FromPop Fiction Women


'Fleabag' Season One & Phoebe Waller-Bridge

FromPop Fiction Women

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Length:
78 minutes
Released:
Jan 1, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Fleabag Season One: the most complicated of all.**Fleabag is the most complex woman we've come across, the epitome of the modern complicated woman. Kate asserts that no one asks so much of us in terms of what we are willing to accept or tolerate in a character. (00:30).**We unpack Fleabag's crazy complicated relationships -- Godmother (6:30), Father (13:00), Hot arsehole guy (18:08), The Loan Guy (25:30), Claire (29:50), Boo (35:42)**What's Your Damage, Heather? For Fleabag, there's a lot of it. (41:10)**What She Said (43:50). The rabbit hole took us deep with Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who gives great interviews with so much openness and insight. We start with the narrative structure of Fleabag.**Carinn tells a very personal story about how Phoebe made her rethink some of the things she's said about motherhood. Can't imagine how this ties in to Fleabag? (50:36) (and note that tib-BU = taboo in Carinn's bad British accent).**Kate highlights PWB's fascination with female rage (56:56). And do you know the fate of the cafe's guinea pig in her one woman show? (1:00:04)**Supporting Characters. We want more of Claire, less of Jake but we also have two very surprising picks that excited both of us. (1:02:07).**Takeaways (1:10:05). Fleabag confirmed for Carinn that "art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable" and Kate found an unexpected role model in one of the characters.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Released:
Jan 1, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

In Pop Fiction Women we deep-dive into the complicated women of books, movies and TV shows, along with the women that bring them to life behind the scenes. Think Fleabag and Phoebe Waller Bridge, Normal People and Sally Rooney, and so much more. In each episode you can expect us to: * Break down the protagonist as we ask what makes her complicated? * Identify the best scenes, which can mean sweetest, funniest, or most badass. Anything we love. * Recount the cringiest scenes. The ones that make you squirm. Sometimes it’s self-sabotage, sometimes it’s growth, but it’s always part of the process of becoming our complicated selves. * Play arm-chair therapist in What’s Your Damage, Heather? An homage to the iconic line in Winona Rider’s Heathers, we discuss how these characters got to be the way they are. * “What She Said” - the segment where we scour every essay and interview with the women behind the scenes and share some of our favorite first person quotes. Real life is as interesting as fiction here. * Look into our crystal ball and ponder where these characters are six months later and five years later. Typically, Kate gets very real and Carinn gets buck wild. * Provide a takeaway, aka that part in the podcast where we try to sound deep. We leave you with some parting wisdom, challenge each other with thought-provoking questions inspired by the work, and urge you to “stay complicated.”