The UK star also wrote the pithy story which drew an easy outpouring of comparison to Girls‘ Lena Dunham, but can we be brutally honest? Fleabag is everything we wish Girls turned out to be after it’s first season. Where both star depressed, sex-obsessed, and awkward leading ladies, Phoebe has self- awareness. She admits she is an “apathetic, cynical, depraved, morally bankrupt woman who can’t even call herself a feminist,” so the audience can root for her. We know in our first introduction that she is broken, but she wants to be better, she just isn’t sure how to change quite yet.

 It is also the unexpected moments that other shows should take note of; how it unfolds layer-by-layer instead of throwing obvious characters  with predictable arcs at audiences. Fleabag is realistic in that nothing is what it seems. Daddy answers the door at 2 AM and listens to his daughter woes only to call her a cab so he doesn’t have to deal. Sister seems put together on the outside, but she is anorexic, unhappy, and obsessive.

Yes, it’s dark, but we promise you will you cry and laugh until you cry on Phoebe’s bumpy path of self-discovery.