Fleabag Season 2: What to Expect

Fleabag Season 2 isn't officially ordered yet, but it sounds like Amazon is interested in giving a second season to the hilarious, heartwrenching, and fourth wall-busting TV series from the mind of Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who also stars as the eponymous character. This is great news, given that Fleabag was one of the best shows of 2016, a delightfully dark treatise on love, lust, and loss wrapped up in a comedic dressing.

What would a second season of Fleabag even look like? Well, Variety had a chat with Waller-Bridge, and it sounds like she has more than a few ideas.

I was told in the first place to keep things open at the end of the season. But her arc closes off, and the relationship between her and the audience ends. So when it first came up about doing another season, I was like 'No way. I can’t see a way back in, and I don’t want to milk it. I don’t want to flog it.' But then Amazon gave me a little time to think about it, and then just one day I’m on a bus and just was like hold on, I think I’ve found a new way in.

According to Waller-Bridge, Fleabag Season 2 will be "something completely different." It will still be Fleabag's story, but will take place at a completely different stage in her life. (It doesn't sound like Season 2 will pick up days, weeks, or months after the end of Season 1.) "I’m gonna go into a new stage in her life, so there’ll be a whole new structure and story and everything. I think I’ve found a way to do it," Waller-Bridge said.

Waller-Bridge mused that she will have to do something different when it comes to lying to the audience because "it would feel disingenuous to be looking at the camera again and being like, all eyebrow-y, and s— — ‘cause once you’ve seen through her."

Waller-Bridge spoke specifically about wanting to write something for the relationship between her sister Claire (Sian Clifford) and her husband Martin (Brett Gelman), saying:

I just want to do something with them. I don’t know what it is, I just want to write for them again and see what that relationship is. I keep telling myself — at the beginning of the process and thinking about doing a second season, I kept telling myself it would be braver not to do a second season. And now I’m starting to think, f— it, no. It’s braver to do one!

We think so, too.