Fleabag: The Scriptures

by Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Fleabag: The Scriptures includes new writing from Phoebe Waller-Bridge alongside the filming scripts and the never-before-seen stage directions from the award-winning series.

Genres: Fiction, Plays, Contemporary, Romance, Feminism, Drama, Humor

368 pages, Hardcover

First published November 26, 2019

About the author

Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge (born 14 July 1985) is an English actress and writer. She is best known for creating, writing and starring in the comedy-drama series Crashing (2016) and Fleabag (2016–19), for which she won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Female Comedy Performance, and for developing and writing the first season of BBC America drama Killing Eve, based on novels by Luke Jennings.

Reviews

[Kai Spellmeier]

this is the only holy scripture I accept

[Rachel (rachandbooks)]

*Looks at camera* This is a masterpiece.

[emma]

I like approximately four things in this world. One thing is cookies, and even those have to pass an extremely comprehensive test which the vast majority of baked goods fail with flying colors.

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Another thing is coffee, and this has to be consumed with so much care and precision that if I were dropped back into the Middle Ages, if I didn't immediately perish from boredom / lack of running water / people smelling bad and being annoying, I could probably enjoy a fruitful career in alchemy. Lead into gold all DAY.

The third thing is books, and, in case you are somehow, mercifully new here, I don't like those too often either.

Fortunately, the fourth thing is a small number of witty, dark-humor British TV shows, most of which are created / written by / starring / formulated from the angelic and god like brain of Phoebe Waller-Bridge.

When you combine two of those four things into one book, it is a goddamn gift the likes of which come once in a generation.

Bottom line: What is there to say? Watch Fleabag. Read this. Or don't and be substantially less happy than you could be otherwise. See if I care.

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pre-review

today is my birthday and this book is a gift.

review to come / 5 stars i guess

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tbr review

my personal bible

[paula]

men will never understand what it’s like to be on your fleabag, fiona apple, phoebe bridgers, mirrorball, jane austen, liability, the bell jar era and, honestly, they don’t deserve to

[carolina]

IT WILL NOT PASS DO YOU HEAR ME IT WILL NOT FUCKING PASS

[Verity]

Every time I read another female writer I wonder why I ever read anything written by men

[Hara]

i dont carry a vagina around with me, that would be way too provocative.

[Ana Lúcia Gonçalves]

Fuck you calling me Father like it doesn't turn you on just to say it.

[Caroline]

i have accepted phoebe waller-bridge as my lord and savior

[s 🪐]

"I love you,
it will pass."
but it's been years and it still has not passed.

[Szymon]

The only person I'd run through an airport for is you

Though Fleabag is about so much, what I probably adore most of all is the show's depiction of sisterhood. Just a perfect show/play/human being.

[Emily B]

Emotional, touching, funny, honest, awkward, original.

So much to love! Yes I was expecting more than the scripts from the TV show and it was mainly just those but those are perfection so I can’t rate it any less.

[cossette]

will be thinking about "(gently) it'll pass" for the rest of my life

[Naya]

It’s edgy,
it’s chic,
it’s French.

[casey]

dealing w post rewatch sadness the only way i know how

[Subilia]

Amazing. Stunning. Brilliant. Breathtaking. Spectacular. Perfect. Incredible. Legendary. Iconic. Unique. The voice of a generation.

[elio]

it's been weeks and i can't move on.

[Varvara]

I've never read scripts before, so I thought it would be a bit boring to read an almost word-to-word script of a show I'd watched several times.
Boy was I wrong.
It was like hallucinating the whole show in my head, but this time I could stop, take the favourite bits slow, reread the favourite lines several times, and enjoy it even more (which I thought was quite impossible).
By the way, the edition is gorgeous; the biblical font, the colours, and the "Write like you're not afraid" last page.
I was a bit disappointed only by the lack of any additional notes (there's only 5 or so pages that feel more like acknowledgements at the end of the book).

[olivia miss_ipkiss_reads]

this just gets better and better

[emiliana]

read : 6th of jan. 2023 - 8th of jan. 2023

brilliant

⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑

[Emma Griffioen]

"Maybe happiness isn't what you believe, but who you believe in." Pg. 223

I love Fleabag with my whole heart. It is hands down one of my favourite shows of all time and I thoroughly enjoyed reading the scripts, they were laugh out loud funny! I dropped a star because I do think it works better as a show than a book, but regardless, this is a must-read for any Fleabag and Pheobe Waller-Bridge fans.

[jut]

starting the year with a bang. promising. it's in fact the holy scripture.

[Gatha Lashkari]

I finished a packet of post-its on this book, so yeah, thats my review.

[stav]

PWB had neither reason no right to be all up in my business like this

Nothing has made me feel more than this show. This is a show. Watch this show. The scriptures is a very fitting name for this, my comedy bible forever and ever amen. It has a tiny guinea pig and a fox on it. The perfect way to cleanse my brain heart and soul from those goddawful romance novels.

Claire: Putting pine nuts on your salad doesn't make you a grown-up.
Fleabag, to camera: Fucking does.

[jules ⭑°⋆]

this is my joker.

[Eleonora Aldea]

Pensé que por haber visto la serie dos veces ya la experiencia de leer los guiones iba a ser menos emocionante, pero no. Me reí, lloré y me percaté de detalles que antes se me escaparon. Fleabag sigue dándome tanto.

[Pete]

Phoebe Waller-Bridge can do no wrong.

[Kelly (and the Book Boar)]

Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. I want to make all the smexies with The Priest. I was late to the Fleabag party due to not having a Prime account until a year after “Series 2” had originally aired. But when I finally discovered it, boy did I binge it more than once and I loved it so much I even checked out these “Scriptures” from the library. And then????



Make yourself a little wishlist over at the Internet Book Store of inexpensive treasures like this book and maybe your significant other will feel inclined to surprise you with a delivery every now and then that will turn your frown upside down. This puppy will sit front and center on the bookshelves for sure.

[nell 🪴]

okay fleabag is my absolute favorite show ever and i actually think i enjoyed reading it more than watching it. everything about it is perfect and just UGH i loved it so much. nothing will ever compare. if it was a song it would either be i wish i was the moon by neko case, savior complex, or chinese satellite by phoebe bridgers

[elea ☆]

"People make mistakes that’s why pencils have a rubber on the top"

I can't get over this... I just can't. If I had to name something that I think about every day, Fleabag would be it. It has just consumed my whole life and I love it so much.

"It'll pass."