The Fleabag Mystique
New York magazine|February 6–19, 2017

Phoebe Waller-Bridge makes dark, funny television, which means a lot of people think she has an agenda. She does. But not theirs.

Noreen Malone
The Fleabag Mystique

THERE’S SOMETHING REALLY pedophilic about those,” murmurs Phoebe Waller Bridge, staring at four miniature, perfectly red apples nestled tightly in plastic wrap at a central-London Marks & Spencer, where she is shopping for a dinner party she’s to host that night for elderly relatives. “I need to make a fucking kick-ass fucking meal so my husband will be like, ‘Ay, ay, check this ricotta hotcake out.’ ”

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