Crashing (2016)

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Before Fleabag, Phoebe Waller-Bridge created and wrote Crashing, which may or may not have always been meant to be a one-season wonder, but it doesn't mean fans aren't still begging for a follow-up. It has that kind of ending that wouldn't be amiss in a movie, but feels like a promise in a series. Anyway, Crashing makes brilliant use of all those disused hospitals Britain seems to have by making it a very strange "apartment complex", where property guardians are thrown together as roommates. Waller-Bridge herself plays a spoiler who has maintained a will they, won't they relationship with one of the housemates since they were kids, showing up the year of his wedding to a comically jealous girlfriend. Other house mates include a sex addict who has to accept he's bisexual, and a French artist who wants to paint (and bed) a lumpy, depressed divorcé. It's amazing how much stuff there is in only six episodes, including a lot of weirdness played straight. As with Fleabag, it's funny but drives towards tragedy, and people behaving badly is a matter of course. It's more straightforwardly told than Fleabag, but no less absorbing. 2 years ago