A few months earlier, I decided to like a few BBC pages on Facebook not with the intent of keeping abreast with the happenings across this bloody planet of ours. I found their humour interesting, especially the bits and pieces of the Graham Norton Show. I have not seen an entire episode of this show yet and don’t believe I will ever do so either. But I love watching the three to five minutes snippets available on social media.
Every day, the BBC pages threw some wonderfully humorous entries at me. Some of them actually made me laugh aloud. Soon a name started standing out from among these entries. At first I ignored it but soon my curiosity got better of me and I typed the name Fleabag in the Google search bar. Google came back with the image of an actress whom I had seen in one of the Graham Norton snippets. I understood that Fleabag is the name of an acclaimed series on BBC. I was also thrilled to see that the series was available in Amazon Prime. The various sites also cautioned me that contents of the series were of sexual nature and fathers of teen aged children should preferably watch these episodes behind closed doors else they would not have an opportunity to talk to their growing children about bees and birds.
I watched two episodes of the series one evening and was unable to digest the amount of bees and birds the episodes served. I decided to give the series a break for a few days and come back afresh. Two days later, I sat in front of the television and completed the two seasons of Fleabag within two days. I would not say I was blown away by it (Hmmmm!) but I found it interesting. Fleabag conversing with audience verbally and visually is the star attraction of the series. Phoebe Weller is so good at it that at times I felt I was actually observing a friend’s life. Would it not be great to have a friend like Fleabag! I mean not an intimate friend but more like a neighbour you know for a few months. So you know her well enough to know the happenings in her life and yet have not known her long enough to be attached to these happenings.
Maybe we should make something called Alibaugh about a desi Fleabag who lives in Alibaugh. Of course, since she is a desi in her thirties she would be married. Her marriage would be six or eight years old, which is just enough time for the husband and wife to be tired of each other and yet not long enough for them to ignore each other. Being a desi couple from Alibaugh they would not dare to break the conventions of the society and walk away from each other. The tussles of a Fleabag like character in such a situation would be interesting to observe.
Every day, the BBC pages threw some wonderfully humorous entries at me. Some of them actually made me laugh aloud. Soon a name started standing out from among these entries. At first I ignored it but soon my curiosity got better of me and I typed the name Fleabag in the Google search bar. Google came back with the image of an actress whom I had seen in one of the Graham Norton snippets. I understood that Fleabag is the name of an acclaimed series on BBC. I was also thrilled to see that the series was available in Amazon Prime. The various sites also cautioned me that contents of the series were of sexual nature and fathers of teen aged children should preferably watch these episodes behind closed doors else they would not have an opportunity to talk to their growing children about bees and birds.
I watched two episodes of the series one evening and was unable to digest the amount of bees and birds the episodes served. I decided to give the series a break for a few days and come back afresh. Two days later, I sat in front of the television and completed the two seasons of Fleabag within two days. I would not say I was blown away by it (Hmmmm!) but I found it interesting. Fleabag conversing with audience verbally and visually is the star attraction of the series. Phoebe Weller is so good at it that at times I felt I was actually observing a friend’s life. Would it not be great to have a friend like Fleabag! I mean not an intimate friend but more like a neighbour you know for a few months. So you know her well enough to know the happenings in her life and yet have not known her long enough to be attached to these happenings.
Maybe we should make something called Alibaugh about a desi Fleabag who lives in Alibaugh. Of course, since she is a desi in her thirties she would be married. Her marriage would be six or eight years old, which is just enough time for the husband and wife to be tired of each other and yet not long enough for them to ignore each other. Being a desi couple from Alibaugh they would not dare to break the conventions of the society and walk away from each other. The tussles of a Fleabag like character in such a situation would be interesting to observe.
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