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Weather Girl at Soho Theatre review: the hot mess solo show feels hot again

4/5 Julia McDermott’s skillful one-hander is a worthy descendent of Fleabag with urgent themes

Evening Standard

I finally streamed Emma Seligman’s first movie Shiva Baby on Mubi and it’s a must-watch for all Fleabag fans

Shiva Baby is the first movie I've ticked off my watchlist since downloading Mubi, and it's a smash hit. Here's why I think you should stream it next.

TechRadar

Awful and Awesome Ep 348: Ripley, Scoop, election songs, WrestleMania

While discussing Ripley:

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5 Prime Video shows with 100% on Rotten Tomatoes

Critics agree that you should stream these five shows right away on Prime Video

Tom’s Guide

The Dry season two review – throw all the awards at this comedy!

Dense, clever, sad, deeply funny: this immaculately plotted Irish comedy drama about rebuilding life in the wake of tragedy and addiction is a supreme achievement

The Guardian - UK

The best London based TV shows: from Top Boy to Fleabag

The capital has never looked better

Evening Standard

The exquisite physical comedy of Dirty Birds: a new Aussie post-COVID Theatre of the Absurd

Theatre is littered with sister double acts: Antigone and Ismene, Kate and Bianca, Blanche and Stella, Fleabag and Claire. The shared history of sisters delivers inbuilt emotional stakes and lots of baggage. The doubling of experience brings both love and rivalry, the joys of being known and the horrors of…

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The Hesitant Fiancée: this painting is helping women to express their rage on TikTok – here's the story behind it

You might have seen this painting making the rounds on TikTok. Maybe you’ve even made a video responding to it. A young woman in a Victorian wedding dress is staring down the viewer with disdain in her eyes.

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‘We’ve had one Fleabag. We can’t have another’ – has the legendary Edinburgh hit become a curse?

Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s uncouth one-woman show is seen as the epitome of festival success. But 10 years on, we speak to three fringe performers battling to escape its long shadow

The Guardian - UK

Summer flopbusters: why were Indiana Jones and The Flash box office bombs?

A de-aged Harrison Ford battling Nazis and a double helping of Batmen in The Flash have not proved sufficient for either of these ‘tentpole’ releases

The Guardian - UK

Fleabag star Phoebe Waller-Bridge praises F-word rant to remain calm on stage

This month Fleabag star Phoebe Waller-Bridge will make her big screen debut in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny opposite Harrison Ford playing Indy's goddaughter Helena Shaw

Daily Mirror

On Marriage by Devorah Baum review – endless love or life sentence?

The author and film-maker explores the landscape of matrimony in an erudite and entertaining quest for enlightenment

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Fleabag’s fringe fund: a good deed in a bad world

Editorial: By channelling money to Edinburgh performers, Phoebe Waller-Bridge is passing on some of her own good fortune

The Guardian - UK

One Woman Show review – joke-packed Fleabag parody is perfectly pitched

Liz Kingsman’s slick, self-conscious ‘troubled woman’ show nests its complex jokes within jokes to tremendous effect

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Brett Gelman: ‘I saw myself as a villain – but after Stranger Things, I’d like to be an action star’

The comic actor was obnoxious in Fleabag but says his karate-chopping conspiracy theorist in Stranger Things has given him a new sense of direction. So why is he playing the bad guy in a kids’ movie about a singing crocodile?

The Guardian - UK

The Big Blow Out review – like a trip to the salon on a bad day, I love it

From the makers of Bake Off, this fun new show will let you set aside your worries for a silly, sweet and very often gravity-defying hour of hairdressing

Newcastle Herald

Hunter Year 12s leave nest for new horizons

Graduating Hunter School of the Performing Arts students have been reminded that their last official day represented not only a completion, but a new beginning.

Inverse

'She-Hulk' writer and director: Breaking fourth wall was "quintessential"

'She-Hulk: Attorney At Law' writer Jessica Gao and director Kat Coiro unpack the importance of She-Hulk's self-aware nature.

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Exes, alcohol and loose historical licence: Why Netflix’s Persuasion is Jane Austen via Fleabag

Netflix’s Persuasion is a surprisingly faithful adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel, in terms of plot. But it's a distinctly modern rom-com in terms of tone.

The Conversation

Exes, alcohol and loose historical licence: why Netflix's Persuasion is Jane Austen via Fleabag

Netflix’s Persuasion is a surprisingly faithful adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel, in terms of plot structure. It follows the second-chance romance of Anne Elliot (Dakota Johnson) and Captain Frederick Wentworth (Cosmo Jarvis) through almost exactly the same beats and events as the book.

The Independent UK

Persuasion review: Dakota Johnson is woefully miscast in mortifying Jane Austen adaptation

At no point during Carrie Cracknell’s directorial debut do you ever get the sense that anyone’s actually read ‘Persuasion’

The Independent UK

Persuasion review: Dakota Johnson is woefully miscast in mortifying Jane Austen adaptation

At no point during Carrie Cracknell’s directorial debut do you ever get the sense that anyone’s actually read ‘Persuasion’

The Guardian - UK

Persuasion review – Dakota Johnson looks the part as Jane Austen gets Fleabagged

Classic story of a young woman talked out of marrying her true love is turned into a smirking, heavy-handed romcom

The Guardian - UK

How Messy Millennial Woman became TV’s most tedious trope

She’s charismatic, self-destructive, and increasingly tiresome: from Fleabag through to Everything I Know About Love, chaotic female leads now seem to be the default, one-note expression of womanhood. It’s time to move on

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