By Fleabag is not coming back for a third series. It isn't. It shouldn't. It can't.
That hasn't stopped American audiences banging on about whether there will be a third series or not. They're at roughly the stage in the post-Fleabag cycle we in the UK hit in about mid-May, after the initial banging-on-about-it-in-the-pub euphoria and the thinkpiece-overload burn-out. The gnawing realisation that it's all over.
But despite the door being very conclusively slammed, Phoebe Waller-Bridge has let the tiniest shaft of light back in.
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'I have a fantasy of bringing Fleabag back when I’m 50,' Waller-Bridge said at a pre-Emmys Amazon event yesterday, while at the same time ruling out a return for a third series. Not that Amazon itself is listening.
'Nothing would make us happier than to have her bring another season of that show [to Amazon], or anything else she wants to do,' Amazon Prime's Jennifer Salke said at the end of July. 'I mean, I’m forever the optimist, so I remain always hopeful until it’s really over. So I’m hoping.'
Jennifer: it's really over. Waller-Bridge's co-star Sian Clifford, who played Fleabag's sister Claire, said as much when the second series landed this year. 'I’ve described it online as this beautiful perfect ending, and I think it is but I think what it’s closer to is poetry,' she told the BBC back in April.
'I think people will accept this is the end when they see it, because I think it is complete. I think the story is complete.'
