NEW YORK — Phoebe Waller-Bridge's new show Fleabag is being described as everything from "millennial Bridget Jones" to British Broad City.
Yes, the lead is British. And spoiler: She's also very funny.
But the new Amazon comedy — which became available to stream on Friday — wasn't inspired by the pop culture that came before it. It was actually influenced by feminism, and the debates Waller-Bridge and her friends had about what it means to be a modern woman in her 20s.
She turned the idea into a one-woman show about an unfiltered, dry-witted woman who hurls herself at modern living in London as she deals with the loss of her best friend, a breakup, and financial troubles at her café. It got noticed by a BBC commissioner at the Edinburgh Festival — and two years later, Amazon picked it up as a six-part series. Read more...
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