FLEABAG Notes - Season 2, Ep 5
There are MULTIPLE details in this episode I had MISSED the first time around (cocktails). I knew this rewatch was worth it but wow, very!
Season 2, Episode 5
this series isn’t written like one long movie, it’s very much a series of television with distinct episodes. but that said it also feels consciously constructed for long streaming binges, because man, the transitions from the scene that ends one episode to the scene that starts the next are just terrific. case in point, Episode 4 ending the way it does, and then Episode 5 starting off with Fleabag just trying SO hard to convince us and herself that it’s fiiiiiine, ha ha ha it’s so fine!!!1! and listen: she makes self-aware manic self-delusion fucking hilarious,
[Fleabag: “He’s a little bit controlling.”]
Hot Misogynist: “Don’t eat that.”
[Fleabag: “But it’s manageable.”]
Fleabag: “I’m going to.”
Hot Misogynist: “Okay.”
[Fleabag: “He’s a feminist.”]
Hot Misogynist: “I have a sister.”
[Fleabag: “He’s unpredictable.”]
Hot Misogynist: “I’m just gonna go for a shit.”
Phoebe and this guy, Ray Fearon, have the patter down PAT, I am *wheezing*
the “He won’t be” bit aaaahhhhahahaha, smash cuts, I love this song
I just fucking love them
I love your Fleabag Notes, but real talk… what’s the recipe for your Hot Priest cocktail?
Ahahahah, WELL. The only thing I knew at the start was that I wanted to call it “The Hot Priest”, and that it would feature Chartreuse, because monks. (And also because my watch-buddy had had Chartreuse with me before and liked it.)
Then I just kind of riffed.
The Hot Priest
1 ounce green Chartreuse
1 lime wedge (¼ of the lime if it’s small, 1/6 if large)
3-5 medium/small mint leaves
2 ounces fancy, not too sweet ginger beer (i.e. Fever Tree)
Squeeze the lime into a tumblr, then drop it in and muddle it with the mint leaves with your muddler, pestle, handle of a wooden spoon, etc. Add a few ice cubes, then pour in the Chartreuse and ginger beer, gently swirling it around a little like a wine glass to mix.
The resulting cocktail is green, like the Priest’s vestments in Episode 2. Thanks to the Chartreuse it’s pretty high proof, like the Priest’s blood alcohol concentration. There are no spices but for some reason it tastes like there are all sorts of spices? Cloves, cardamom, various other mysterious things that make me think of incense and holy relics. It taste very unusual and a little strong, so at first you feel like maybe this is kind of dangerous, maybe this is not something you should be drinking… But you keep drinking it. #on theme