The second season of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's twisted comedy Fleabag hasn't allowed audiences to binge it whole, but instead drip-fed it to them week by week. As well returning to the cliffhanger moments of traditional television, the weekly drop of the BBC show means we're all watching at the same time, and then dissecting it at the water-cooler the next day.

Last week's episode bought in the new trick of The Priest (Andrew Scott) she can't get out of her head being able to see her fourth wall breaking to the camera. As well as the shock of the moment pulling the ground from under the viewer, it set up the metaphor that his character is the only one that is truly listening to her.

Another such moment came at the climax of this week's episode where, consumed by painful memories and in a moment of personal crisis, Fleabag starts to pray in a church. Interrupted by the sound of 'Jenny from the Block' - natural night time listening for men of the cloth apparently - coming from a far off room, she walks in to find him in a state she doesn't quite recognise.

Fleabag and The Priest who she can’t seem to stay away from BBC

"Fuck you calling me Father like it doesn't turn you on just to say it," he quips at her boldly. They share a drink and you know it's not his first, but you're not totally sure whether to read his drinking as some sort of red flag, or a sign he's trying to get her out his head.

The uncertainty and tension continues as he says "I know what to do with you" and leads her to the confession booth, where, after some probing, Fleabag reveals the pain of how lost and in need of guidance she is. The scene ends with him repeatedly telling her to kneel, and after she does he appears in front of her and bends to passionately kiss her.



It's a deeply intense moment, which is understandable given the forbidden nature of their relationship and drawn out foreplay of the past three episodes.

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It's also a scene that can be seen in two different ways. The first: a man transfixed by her and guiding her to salvation, offering a balm for her pain. The other is that the Priest is abusing his position of power: Fleabag's desire for him doesn't eradicate the fact she is at her most vulnerable and he picked this as the moment to act on his feelings.

It's clearly no accident that Waller-Bridge draws out the moment he tells her to kneel, leaving the audience wondering whether it will end in innocent prayer, or, when he appears in the doorway, with him unzipping his trousers.



Scott as The Priest during the latest episode of Fleabag BBC

What results is neither one nor the other, a romantic moment that still crosses boundaries and leaves both parties walking away from the other in a mixture of guilt and confusion. It doesn't quite satisfy the itch of wanting them getting together, but instead starts us down another corridor of confusion.

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Waller-Bridge has admitted she will whisper to Fleabag director Vicky Jones what will happen next in any film or play they see together. They want this series to run away from that predicability, and here Fleabag proves again to be ahead of the viewer - even in what we thought we wanted.

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