‘Fleabag’ Season 2 Explores Religion With Help Of “Hot Priest” – TCA

The second season of Amazon’s Fleabag surprised nobody more than series creator/star Phoebe Waller-Bridge, she told TV critics at TCA.

“I decided not to do a second season. Absolutely. For sure,” she insisted Wednesday afternoon, joking, “I have great pride in my artistic integrity.”

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Only then, she said, she had this idea.

Now she insisted, she is determined not to do a Season 3. Absolutely. For sure.

Season 2 sees Fleabag’s sees family as dysfunctional as ever; uptight sister Claire, her obnoxious alcoholic husband, their father in a relationship with their godmother.

But this season, Andrew Scott is added to the cast as The Priest – “Hot Priest,” as one TV critic described at TCA, which Waller-Bridge said she wish she’d thought of.

The notion of an atheist trying to find meaning in a world in which everything seems so bad, and the “need to believe in something” these bleak days resonated with her, she said, noting most of the jokes she’d jotted in a notebook she keeps with her were about religion, but not by design.

“I wanted someone to challenge her, who she couldn’t reduce to an anecdote,” Waller-Bridge said of Hot Priest.

“They really challenge each other” she said. Fleabag is left seeing the world in a completely different way. This season, she said, is about the impact people can have on each other.

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