Barack Obama, a Cool Dad, released his annual best-of lists today, cataloguing his top picks in books, movies, and music for 2019. In the literature department, he — probably like you, and basically all of Book Instagram — enjoyed Sally Rooney’s Normal People and Jia Tolentino’s Trick Mirror; unlike (at least some of) you, he watched Marriage Story and felt something, ranking it among his favorite movies of the year. I, however, am wondering how he felt about the TV series Fleabag — specifically about one very frisky scene featuring his own face.
Fleabag’s second season, you see, landed on Obama’s 2019 “Quick List of TV Shows That I Considered as Powerful as Movies,” which, of course, duh. This was a magnificent piece of television — the best show on, according to Vulture. The Hot Priest! The jumpsuit! The perennial perfection of Olivia Colman! Her beautiful friendship with Fleabag’s creator, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and the ukulele ballads that flowed from it! Truly, Fleabag gave us so much to love.
In its first season — in its first episode, actually — Fleabag also gave us a memorable clip in which Waller-Bridge, as the titular character, furtively masturbates to one of Obama’s speeches while her sometimes-boyfriend sleeps (or so she thinks) beside her. This moment, she later told Vulture, “was all women wanted to talk about,” apparently having found it relatable.
And Obama? Although he has not confirmed that he even saw season one, it stands to reason that of course he did. What do you think he made of this fun little scene: Do you think he watched it, do you think he laughed? Granted, I can’t speak for Obama, but personally, I’d take it as a compliment.
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