Fleabag Season 3: What You Need to Know

Fleabag is cleaning up at tonight’s Emmy Awards, taking home an armful of prizes including (so far) Best Writing and Best Actress in a Comedy Series for the incomparable Phoebe Waller-Bridge. As anyone who’s had the pleasure will know, the only downside to bingeing all of Fleabag is the heartbreaking moment when you hit the six-hour mark and realize it’s over.

In characteristic British fashion, the show’s seasons are short and sweet at just six half-hour episodes apiece, and know exactly how to leave you wanting more. (No, I have not recovered from Fleabag’s bus stop farewell with the hot priest, nor shall I ever!)

So will there ever be more Fleabag? According to Waller-Bridge, it’s not likely. Even before Season 2 premiered, Waller-Bridge told journalists at the Television Critics Association press tour in February that she had no plans to continue the show—while also acknowledging that she had said the same thing before. “I decided not to do a second season absolutely for sure,” she revealed, “and I had great pride in my artistic integrity for not coming back, and then I had the idea for the second series.” So while she sounded pretty resolute about her decision not to return for Season 3, she left the door slightly open: “I may be surprised again. I don’t know.”

More recently, Waller-Bridge told The Hollywood Reporter that while she still feels like Fleabag is “done … I do have a fantasy of bringing her back when I’m, like, 45 or 50. She went on the biggest journey over the past two seasons, and she started as someone who sort of hated herself and ended up as someone believing that she could love again and forgive herself. I have to respect that arc and let her go and live for a bit.” The THR profile also noted that at a recent screening, Waller-Bridge had confirmed once again—to a groaning audience—that she was done with the show. “I’d rather that than the other way around. ‘End it! Please, end it!‘ she said. “No, I love that sound that people make. But I can genuinely say that was it … The reasons to end never felt as guttural as they do now. I’m a big follower of the old gut.”

Okay, but let’s focus on the part where she said she has a fantasy of bringing back Fleabag two decades from now! Assuming we’re all still here and television remains a thing!

It’ll come as no surprise to anyone that Amazon Studios—which co-produces Fleabag alongside the BBC—is just as eager for more as the rest of us.”Nothing would make us happier than to have her bring another season of that show, or anything else she wants to do,” Amazon Studios’ chief exec Jennifer Salke said at the Television Critics Association press tour this summer. “I just am basically [Phoebe’s] stalker. Anything Phoebe wants to do, we are signed up to do.” I mean, the hardest of sames!

But if this really is the end of Fleabag, at least we’ll have twelve perfect episodes available to rewatch forever. Here’s the dinner scene from the Season 2 premiere, featuring A) that jumpsuit and B) that hot priest. You’re welcome.

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