By Jim Shelley for MailOnline
Published: 01:17 GMT, 5 March 2019 | Updated: 01:32 GMT, 5 March 2019
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The return of Fleabag was everything.
This phrase has been tossed around so frequently and frivolously on Twitter etc that it’s become virtually meaningless. (Not everything can be ‘everything.’)
But Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s comedy really was, and not just in the modern parlance - of something enriching/invigorating the quality of your life in the way that the best television programmes, films, or pop songs do.
Brilliant: Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s comedy really was, and not just in the modern parlance - of something enriching/invigorating the quality of your life in the way that the best television programmes, films, or pop songs do
On top of that, Episode One was everything we could have hoped for in a Season Two debut.
Not being a disappointment was fine but no longer really enough after series like The Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm, or Girls. Fleabag was from the Lena Dunham/Larry David/Tina Fey school: a deeper, smarter, more ambitious,