When Your Dad Gets You Therapy For Your Birthday | Fleabag Series 2 

TheAlbinoskunk It’s mainly with ‘gallows humour’ where we think it’s inappropriate to laugh along...

oh my god YES

Not the security blanket being torn to shreds! 😭

I’ve never been to therapy (can’t afford it yet 😭), is this really how it is ?

@@karengrace6890 thank you. 💙

Reminds you a bit of youtubers.....

We're always there.

For...her friends?

she needs to write a black mirror episode

@@dejavu011 or the classic sitcom act

It's actually a very common phrase for therapists to use to show they're listening nonjudgmentally

​@@ryanzhanfeng9322but in this particular situation it is hilarious

@@ryanzhanfeng9322 It's the fact that she's just asked if he's good looking that gets me

yah. The therapist has also wanted to f a priest at some point. Saying "I understand" is like the professional way of communicating "oh yeah I get it, I knew this priest who was so hot." It's that sort of subtle brilliant humor that hints at the depth of the character without saying it out loud. Part of the strength of this show's writing; there's no one-dimensional bit characters that just exist to develop the main characters. Even if you don't get much time with a character, they drop hints to deep and complex personalities and quirks. The point being that everyone is a person, not just Fleabag. She talks to the camera and thinks she's so different and the main character of the world. She relishes feeling special and superior in some ways (brains, looks, cleverness) and inferior in others (morals, honesty, etc). And yes she's exceptional but not *so* exceptional in every way. And that belief is a big part of what isolates her and ultimately makes her depressed and basically only able to (barely) related to her sister, the person most alike her in terms of lived experience. So the therapist who seemed so polar opposite to Fleabag, tells us with a single "I understand", that she's also got a complex emotional/sexual/horny side to her. It's done in a very blase and matter-of-fact way, as if to say "of course I'm a sexual being, did you think your sexual urges were so unique and abnormal?" It's super funny but also damn good therapy.

easy get him to convert to C of E

@@robertjackson3552 he's Irish. Would never convert to C of E.

@@DarrenBates so the irish people are catholic? sorry Im from the other extreme of the globe

@@fabri_gonzalez not all of us are Catholic but a lot of are.

Looks good in the what?

mclaire99 by her own description.

Why so much cruelty, i'm going down the garden to watch my spiders in the hut.

I felt it on a personal level

And the worst thing is its all her own doing.

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this therapist already has a series...it's called Killing Eve.

@@ADifferentVibe lmao !!!!

Fiona Shaw is a treasure

@@aspic5881 Emmy and Tony Award-nominee Fiona Shaw...

maybe somebody is. It's my housemate.

How do you know that pray tell?

No she isn't.

@@samo917 In five minutes she pushed past Fleabag’s defenses and got to the heart of her issue. Hugely perceptive to zoom in on the decision to stop having sex and the person not hanging sex with.

It's like a half dozen sessions compressed into 5 minutes.

If anything flea bag revealing so much about her self in first session is what made the therapist able to to her job so great

Mubarak AlSadhan her power!!!!

and now it's an emmy win xd

@@davidgalan2140 No, she lost to Jane Lynch

But it's the category tho. It's not like she was nominated for supporting.

The scene is brutal 😂

Leo Watkins wow, you’re right... it’s the subtlety of it too.

Yeah I think the therapist’s reaction sort of makes her agree that there’s no point in therapy

I don't think she ever cared

Which is a shame because up to that point, the therapist was really, really good. The bout of pride in her work makes her not only look a bit petty but also oblivious to how people who are in bad spots often have the tendency to take others down with them.

@@DrZaius3141" people who are in bad spots often have the tendency to take others down with them." It's called THe Quicksand Syndrome....

dr dursley lol

LMFAOOOO not Dr. Dursley please 💀

PLEASE Dr. Dursley

She's using Carolyn Martens' moisturiser.

It's the deadpan face

omg. that was my comment

@@soijustlistenedto... the one that makes you smell like arse

Is this a throwback to when Fleabag offers to go in the other room and "moisturize her wrists for a bit" at the silent retreat? 😅

But somehow it's relateable

Season 2 spoilers!!!! Do you know what's going on with the preist? He can see fleabag breaking the fourth wall, is there a metaphor or meaning behind it I don't understand?

@@556to762 I think it's him paying attention and listening to her while most other people she knows don't really do that. Like at the first episode of season 2 when no one was interested in knowing how she was doing and Fleabag pointed that out at the camera but then the priest interrupted her by asking what she does.

Yeah I don’t know how phoebe does it

556to762 it’s meant to point out that the priest notices Fleabag and her idiosyncrasies more than her own family does; he pays attention to her and can read through her, the way the therapist does

It’s one of those small touches that makes her work memorable and real...

It had not been ten minutes… it had been more time but it past by her.

Oof. Yeah.... 😭

'You already know what you're going to do, *everybody* does' Because right at the beginning of the season Fleabag told us, that this is a love story.

Do we really know? I think that line is a therapist's cop-out.

Nah disagree.

She reminded me of the Oracle from the Matrix franchise, telling Neo that he has already made his choice, and that all he has left to do is to understand it.

commenting on this so you get the urge to watch it all again 🥰

ohhhh noooooo, another reminder for you to watch it all again four years laterrrrrr ;)

beth98362 horny not honey

@@TheSinghstory Thanks, horny

There's a honey-like substance if you do it well!

is her scarf turning her on? Why?

Ew​@@ti84satact12

SAME. i love it.

Yes! Amazing

I swear😂😂😂😂

That and looking after her nephew who lives under the stairs....

And tormenting Harry Potter when he gets holiday

I SCROLLED to find the Aunt Petunia comment!!!

finally . THANK YOU

Thank you

Aha! I was also watching Killing Eve and I was really wondering where I had seen her.

Saicharan Villanelle and Caroline would make an interesting couple

“We get on with it.”

So the edit is bad ?

Cause shes honest

You tell us

Does anybody read this stuff? Third law of thermodynamics is alive and dying.

@Andrew Ongais You better write a book soon Andrew with little gems of wisdom like that 👍

And her face 😂😂😂

What do you mean by her schizophrenia? Just curious as I’ve never heard that applied to Fleabag

nah, I think she just means everybody does, it's breaking the classic stupid excuse "I wasn't expecting (that/us?) to happen"... Well, yeah, you were

M Klongerpute it feels like it is more than just a comedy show.

pixel girl haha fair point

Lee Adams It’s because you have got two very good British actresses they make it good

@@peterjohnson6692 Shaw isn't British

Oh my god the SHAKESPEARE of Comedy!? Just when I thought this series and this women couldn't get any more overrated, you go and say something like this!

I saw that too. Because in a real situation maybe the therapist would have encouraged her to talk about her friends. But I said to myself yeah she’s not going to talk to you she’s going to talk to us and have sex with a priest. Mistake. 😩

The worst part is he didn’t He gave it to her at the dinner a few months later

And yet the crap is what is to be loved too

@@samo917 not in therapy

Yeah I don't think it's great form to be as aggressive and serious as this therapist lol,. But you can't do a full hour long scene in a TV show so you gotta do something to cut to the chase

Omg and I was wondering where have I seen her before 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ thx

true, but that little scarf isn't helping

Right? She underplays it beautifully.

Spoiler. At the end of season 2 she stops us from 'following' her. She doesn't intend to write another season...

SCD Observer I saw that last week lol....Who knows she might make another.

SCD Observer I know this season came out after a few years from the first but I only binged the first this year. This sesson was really popular so I hope she changes her mind.

I actually thought she was referring to her friend who committed suicide and how she can't get over her guilt--she's always flashing back to moments with her.

We're not her friends, we're her coping mechanism - we're the way she tries to deal with her life, but it's unhealthy, which is why at the end of season two, she waves goodbye to the camera, because she's emotionally stable enough now to continue with her life and heal. This is also why there cannot be another season. (phoebe has said all of this in past interviews)

cue intense music £25,000 a year for starter Case Officers. There are better paid roles.