17 Little Known Shows To Stream When You’ve Run Out Of Ideas
By Sundi Rose
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Fleabag
In order to watch Fleabag, you need to have your emotional head on straight. Yes, it’s charming and funny, and its dark humor is precise and revelatory, but there is a sadness that sneaks up on you, and you won’t be able to unfeel it. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Fleabag, the protagonist and girl you will inevitably develop an insane crush on, is played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Waller-Bridge also writes the show, and it’s gorgeous in the way a glacier is gorgeous as it’s cracking open — achingly and terrifyingly. Technically it’s about a young woman navigating being single in London, which sounds like every other show about women right now. But it’s far more than that, and this show might just mark a shift away from the ubiquitous narcissism that plagues young female television characters, and turn into self-awareness and insight.
This insight, however, comes in the form of one highly self-destructive decision after another, and Fleabag’s wisdom comes at a cost. What some folks could read as “bitter” is a biting realism that makes Fleabag far superior to her TV peers.
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Her confessionalistic style doesn’t read as attention-seeking, but more cathartic in it’s deadpan delivery. Please, TV gods, can we have more Fleabags and less Hannah Horvaths?
Fleabag can be found on Amazon Prime.
With that, I’ve given you 17 shows that need some more love. Which are first on your to-watch list?