THE NOTICE
What a relief to see the talent (finally) recognized. Last Monday, at the Emmy Awards ceremony, which rewards the best television programs Anglo-Saxon, it's a British thirties who has won everything, or almost. With her series "Fleabag", adapted from her one-woman-show, which she wrote, partly produced and of which she plays the main role, the young Phoebe Waller-Bridge has pocketed four awards. Best Screenplay, Best Direction, Best Actress and Best Comic Series. Simply.
30-year-old London girl with humor misunderstood but devastating
A well deserved success as this mini-series (two seasons of 6 episodes each which do not exceed 26 minutes) was able to mix comedy and drama with finesse, while marrying perfectly the current questionings on the representations of the genre. "Fleabag" is the nickname of the main character, London 30 years humor misunderstood but devastating.
The tone is given from the first minutes: Fleabag is a bit clueless, uses, by his own admission, sex to fill the void of his life, and must manage a colorful family. Between a psychorigid sister half anorexic, the companion of this one who turns out to be "beauf" in every sense of the word, and his mother-in-law (so inevitably unbearable) artist (so necessarily crazy), the young woman has some circumstances mitigating.
Humor is the politeness of despair
But behind gags, irresistibly so British , it's serious. "Fleabag" is first and foremost a feminist series that, through her well-researched characters, her well-viewed situations, and her few sloppy phrases ("I'll introduce you to a very good lawyer." He's specialized in defending rapists. So imagine that he has a good rate of acquittal (-100%) recalls the place of women in society.
In the intrigue and introspection crises of the main character, a less burlesque and heavier picture is also emerging. The heroine is also a young woman who must learn to live with the death of a loved one. And all the jokes of the world have never filled the immense solitude which, by small touches, turns out to be the real subject of the series. "Fleabag" finally embodies perfectly the phrase of the filmmaker Chris Marker: "Humor is the politeness of despair."