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* EndsWithASmile: Though Fleabag has broken the fourth wall all series, the final shots of Seasons 1 and 2 are of her smiling at the camera, to bring about some closure and peace after her unhappiness (or, at least, in Season 2, since the Priest rejected her, she's still found some hope.)

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* LivingEmotionalCrutch: For the protagonist, Boo, Harry, Claire, and [[spoiler:you, the viewer]] all serve(d) as living emotional crutches. In series two she seems (initially) determined not to let the Priest fill the same role.



* LiteralMetaphor: When Fleabag finds dad in the attic before his wedding, he tells her "I can't get out, I can't! It's a trap, I'm stuck!". Fleabag assumes he's talking about the wedding and assures him "everyone will understand" if he calls it off. But he's literally got his foot stuck in a mousetrap. To what extent he subconsciously feels the same way about the wedding is open to interpretation.

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* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: Claire and Fleabag respectively. Claire often wears cool, professional clothing and is grounded, married, serious, and responsible. Fleabag favors bold, dark clothes and is impulsive, single, brash, and sexually liberated.
* LiteralMetaphor: When Fleabag finds dad in the attic before his wedding, he tells her "I can't get out, I can't! It's a trap, I'm stuck!". Fleabag assumes he's talking about the wedding and assures him "everyone will understand" if he calls it off. But he's literally got his foot stuck in a mousetrap. To what extent he subconsciously feels the same way about the wedding is open to interpretation. interpretation.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: For the protagonist, Boo, Harry, Claire, and [[spoiler:you, the viewer]] all serve(d) as living emotional crutches. In series two she seems (initially) determined not to let the Priest fill the same role.
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* DawsonCasting: Godmother is probably supposed to be somewhat older than Olivia Colman, who is far too young to be the godmother to Fleabag and Claire unless they were non-infant baptisms; though since she was their mother's student, her relationship with Dad is probably still something of a MayDecemberRomance.
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* SeriousBusiness: Claire calls Fleabag in tears, and tells her that something awful has happened and she needs to come. It turns out that she got a bad haircut.

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* SeriousBusiness: Claire calls Fleabag in tears, and tells her that something awful has happened and she needs to come. It turns out that she got a bad haircut. (Fleabag doesn't think that she's overreacting).

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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Several times in series 1, including memorably to a UsefulNotes/BarackObama speech.
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** Describing heself in a humorous self-deprecation combined with genuine self-loathing: "I have a horrible feeling that I'm a greedy, perverted, selfish, apathetic, cynical, depraved, morally bankrupt woman who can't even call herself a feminist." (To which her father replies that she gets all that from her mother.)

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** Describing heself herself in a humorous self-deprecation combined with genuine self-loathing: "I have a horrible feeling that I'm a greedy, perverted, selfish, apathetic, cynical, depraved, morally bankrupt woman who can't even call herself a feminist." (To which her father replies that she gets all that from her mother.)
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* NoFourthWall: Fleabag frequently speaks directly to the audience via AsideGlance, creating a relationship between herself and the viewers and giving them a deeper insight to her dysfunction. Significantly, her love interest the priest is the only one to notice [[FourthWallObserver this]].

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