History Fridge / Fleabag

* In the final episode, after learning that Harry really has moved on, the protagonist stops making asides to camera and instead gives looks which indicate she resents our presence. If you watch the "shower ninja" scene again, you'll understand why: she does the whole thing with lots of conspiratorial looks to the audience, and scares Harry half to death. She was doing it deliberately to make ''us'' laugh, and lost Harry because of it. No wonder she's pissed off at us.
** Fridge upon Fridge: She's projecting the blame onto us to avoid facing the fact that it ''wasn't'' the shower surprise that finally pushed Harry away - it was all the searches for porn she'd been doing on his laptop.
* Throughout the series, the protagonist is making [[AsideGlance Aside Glances]] and [[AsideComment Aside Comments]] and generally using the audience as a LivingEmotionalCrutch, but when one character finally offers her real hope in-universe at the end, it happens behind a fourth wall. In an ''extremely'' subtle bit of {{Foreshadowing}}, if you [[RewatchBonus go back and watch the previous scenes]] with that character, you'll notice those scenes have a fourth wall as well.
** The audience is Fleabag's [[ReplacementGoldfish Replacement Goldfish]]. Her friendship with Boo was characterised by extreme honesty, constant laughter and talk about sex, and that's what Fleabag talks to us about. It's also hinted that they were each other's emotional support for a depressive tendency they both have. In the end she finally makes a human connection with another character who is just as lost, guilty and vulnerable as she is and finally is able to be honest - really honest this time, with no obfuscating humour - to another person. Her relationship to the camera/audience seems like it represents her relationship with herself, the coping mechanisisms of humour, wryness and distance that are going on inside as she deals with life. Eventually these break down as she is unable to shield herself any more from the pain and guilt of her experiences. She tries to escape the gaze of the camera but it is as futile as trying to escape her own reflective mind.

* In 2x01, Claire is not drinking because she's supporting Martin but she's also not drinking because she's pregnant.

* Fleabag probably did take Boo's fashion advice in the end. The dress from the clothes store flashback really is terrible, but she seems to have Taken A Level In Stylish since then.

** The audience is Fleabag's [[ReplacementGoldfish]]. Her friendship with Boo was characterised by extreme honesty, constant laughter and talk about sex, and that's what Fleabag talks to us about. It's also hinted that they were each other's emotional support for a depressive tendency they both have. In the end she finally makes a human connection with another character who is just as lost, guilty and vulnerable as she is and finally is able to be honest - really honest this time, with no obfuscating humour - to another person. Her relationship to the camera/audience seems like it represents her relationship with herself, the coping mechanisisms of humour, wryness and distance that are going on inside as she deals with life. Eventually these break down as she is unable to shield herself any more from the pain and guilt of her experiences. She tries to escape the gaze of the camera but it is as futile as trying to escape her own reflective mind.

** Fridge upon Fridge: She's projecting the blame onto us to avoid facing the fact that it wasn't the shower surprise that finally pushed Harry away - it was all the searches for porn she'd been doing on his laptop.

* Fleabag probably did take Boo's fashion advice in the end. The dress from the clothes store flashback really is terrible, but she seems to have Taken A Level In Style since then.

* Throughout the series, the protagonist is making [[AsideGlance Aside Glances]] and [[AsideComment Aside Comments]] and generally using the audience as a LivingEmotionalCrutch, but when one character finally offers her real hope in-universe at the end, it happens behind a fourth wall. In an ''extremely'' subtle bit of {{Foreshadowing}}, if you [[RewatchBonus go back and watch the previous scenes]] with that character, you'll notice those scenes have a fourth wall as well.

* In the final episode, after learning that Harry really has moved on, the protagonist stops making asides to camera and instead gives looks which indicate she resents our presence. If you watch the "shower ninja" scene again, you'll understand why: she does the whole thing with lots of conspiratorial looks to the audience, and scares Harry half to death. She was doing it deliberately to make ''us'' laugh, and lost Harry because of it. No wonder she's pissed off at us.