Michaela Coel's dark and deeply personal masterpiece mines from her real life experience to tell a story about the aftermath of sexual assault. If much of Fleabag is about the rocky path that comes along with healing after trauma, I May Destroy You took that concept and ran away with it. If all that wasn't enough, the late, great Carrie Fisher is the show's answer to Olivia Colman's godmother character, making recurring appearances as Rob's eccentric, judgmental mother.
Catastrophe tells us that love isn't easy, but it's worth having if you can find it. Reminiscent of Fleabag's second season, which found Fleabag and the priest tentatively exploring their remarkable connection, Catastrophe is the kind of show that celebrates the joys and frustrations of unexpected romance. Co-creators and co-writers Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan star, respectively, as the affable Rob and the sardonic, disillusioned Sharon, two single people who find themselves falling into a relationship after a short fling leaves Sharon pregnant.
The love story between Fleabag and Andrew Scott's Hot Priest(™) will go down in TV history as one of the most affecting and memorable of all time, and if it's more of that you're looking for, Catastrophe should be your next watch. Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney, Catastrophe Ed Miller There's probably an alternate version of this universe where You're the Worst and Fleabag did a '90s-style crossover episode that saw Fleabag and Gretchen realizing they were long lost cousins and subsequently causing a lot of problems together. Her recklessness is part of what makes her lovable, and her arc over the course of the show's five seasons is stunningly human. Gretchen is bitingly sarcastic, makes some infuriatingly bad decisions, and attracts trouble like it's her job, but Cash's empathetic performance is reminiscent of Waller-Bridge's in that even in her lowest moments, it's hard not to root for her. There are so many great things about You're the Worst: It's exceptionally funny, it takes on the realities of clinical depression thoughtfully, and its supporting characters, Kether Donohue's Lindsay and Desmin Borges' Edgar, are written with just as much care as Gretchen and Jimmy, but the thing most likely to hook any Fleabag fan is Gretchen herself.
Stephen Falk's FX series follows the triumphantly messy evolution of the relationship between Gretchen ( Aya Cash) and Jimmy ( Chris Geere), two generally unhappy, distrustful people who find themselves falling in love despite their reservations, emotional constipation, and separate personal demons. The Peter of this series is still very much alive at the end of “Heads It's Me.Aya Cash and Chris Geere, You're the Worst Byron Cohen/FXX
The bruises on his neck told a different story. Well, an almost bloodless coup as, eight days later, Peter wound up dead through “natural” causes - a severe case of colic. Unlike the way it's shown in the TV series, this was a bloodless coup and it is highly unlikely that children played soccer with a decapitated head. Not that this mattered too much - Peter abdicated without kicking up a fuss when it became clear he had no other options. Catherine the Great biographer Virginia Rounding describes Peter’s search for his wife in amusing detail, “He searched for her in all the rooms, even looking under the beds and in the wardrobes - as though he thought his wife might be playing hide-and-seek.”Ĭatherine had planned on mounting this plot later in the summer of 1762, but one of their co-conspirators had been arrested so it was necessary to speed up the takeover. As a man who was known to play with toy soldiers well into adulthood, he was a terrible tactician and by the time he went to find Catherine at Monsplair, she was already in control of the capital, St Petersburg. Rather than pay any attention to the warnings that Catherine was coming for his title, Peter continued to play his violin and entertain his mistress. He also had no time for the Russian Orthodox Church, isolating him further. Peter didn’t have a lot of love for the country he ruled, while his support of Prussia’s Frederick II didn’t sit well with the nobility either. In the six months Peter was in charge he managed to anger all the wrong people, which includes military leaders and the church. Unlike the stalemate that takes place in the season 2 premiere and Peter’s choice to abdicate due to his hunger, it only took a matter of days for Catherine to take the throne. Sacha Dhawan and Douglas Hodge in 'The Great' (Image credit: Gareth Gatrell/Hulu)