Heartwarming / Fleabag

• The series 1 finale shows that despite the constant parade of cruelty and selfishness in the show, people can change and connect with each other. The Bank Manager shows up when Fleabag is considering suicide, and urges her to forgive herself for her mistakes: Fleabag is not an awful person, she is only human. Then he gives the cafe a second chance at its loan application.
  Bank Manager: People make mistakes.
• At the silent retreat, the usually uptight Claire manages to bond with her sister, laughing at one of her jokes. And farts.
• By Season 2 the cafe really is a great success, to the extent that Clare thinks the amount of guests on a normal day is due to an event.
• These are generally few and far between in this show, but there is one at the end of Season Two, Episode one. Claire has had a miscarriage at a family dinner in a restaurant, but sheer social anxiety and resignation prevents her from letting anyone but Fleabag know that. So Fleabag tells the others that she has had one to try and get Claire to come with her to the hospital, and when a drunk Martin jeers and insults her ("It's the kid's choice if it wants to jump ship, right? Either way, she's got her spotlight"), Fleabag punches him in the face, he punches her back and the meal breaks up in disorder. As Fleabag walks home, blood still running down her face, a cab stops and Claire gets out and waves her in.
  Claire: Just tell him where you live and we'll talk about this tomorrow.
  Fleabag: [to the driver] Can you take us to the nearest hospital, please? Yeah.
  [Long Pause]
  Claire: The priest is quite hot.
  Fleabag: So hot. [pause. She glances at the camera and smiles.]
  • When Fleabag tells people that she's the one who had the miscarriage, the Priest immediately is comforting and her dad gets straight up to go to the hospital.
  • When Martin proceeds to mock Fleabag's supposed miscarriage, she instantly looks at Claire who looks wounded by her husband's attitude. Its fair to assume that punching Martin in the nose was Fleabag's reaction to Martin hurting Claire's feelings.
• The Bank Manager's final scenes in Season 2 Episode 5 - he's leaving town due to getting a new job, but he gifts Fleabag a hamster, offers to watch the cafe for her when Claire calls crying, and tells Fleabag he'll visit since he thinks his wife would like her cafe.
• In Season 2 Episode 5, Fleabag and the Priest finally have sex. The tenderness and special status of the act is reflected by Fleabag deliberately blocking it from the audience's sight by tilting the camera.
• In Season Two, Episode 6 when discussing the details of Claire chasing after Klare in an airport, Claire finishes it up with this to Fleabag:
  Claire: The only person I'd run through an airport for is you.
• In Season 2, episode 6, Fleabag helps her dad out of an attic and expects him to tell her he reminds her of her mother. Instead, he says he reminds her of himself, and genuinely accepts his mistakes towards her.
• In the last conversation of the series, Fleabag and the Priest express their love for each other, despite his calling meaning that they can't be together.
• The very end of the series has Fleabag finally give up using the audience as a Living Emotional Crutch, walking away from the camera and giving us a wave and a smile.