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At the dinner table, the Godmother (a magnificent, evil Harriet Walter) unveils a feminist art piece: a woman’s torso made of bronze with a slide projector showing photos of female genitalia. Claire (Sian Clifford) is mortified. Martin (Brett Gelman) sees it as pornography. Fleabag, half-drunk, looks at the camera and mouths, "This is awful." This scene establishes the show's thesis: performative feminism is laughable, but real female pain is invisible.

We then cut to a flashback. She and Boo are in a laundromat. Boo is crying because her boyfriend cheated on her. Boo asks, "How do you cry? Like, actually cry?" Fleabag says she doesn't know. Boo says, "I’ll teach you." Fleabag 1x1

The episode fades to black with the sound of the ladies laughing. It is the most heartbreaking use of a laugh track in television history because we now know: Boo is dead, and Fleabag thinks she killed her. Let’s look at the anatomy of the pilot's core moments: At the dinner table, the Godmother (a magnificent,

Warning: Contains spoilers for Fleabag Season 1, Episode 1 ("Episode 1"). Fleabag, half-drunk, looks at the camera and mouths,