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 Aside Glances,Aside Comments and generally using the audience as a Living Emotional Crutch. 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 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 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. One 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 mechanisms of humor, wryness, and distance that are going on inside as she deals with life. Eventually these break down as she is unable to shield herself anymore 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.
• 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.
• Hot Priest seems to be the only one to notice Fleabag's fourth wall-breaking asides. Aside from the fact that he's probably the only (living) character on the show who actually pays attention to Fleabag, he's also used to speaking — or praying, rather — to an unseen audience.
• Fleabag, despite being an avowed Atheist, treats the camera/audience as a replacement in lieu of confession. Hot Priest, who hears her actual confession in the church, can see her because he's the only person she's ever shown vulnerability to.
• In 2x01, Claire is not drinking because she's supporting Martin, but she's also not drinking because she's pregnant.

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