Who is Boo in Fleabag?

The best friend the café was for · The Café & the Departed

Boo (The best friend the café was for) is a character in Fleabag, part of The Café & the Departed. Boo co-founded the café and owned its better half: the warm, guileless best friend who appears throughout in flashback — laughing across the counter, doing the voices, being the person Fleabag was safest beside. She is already gone when the series opens; how, and what Fleabag had to do with it, is the secret the first season is structured around — the thing the asides to camera are built to keep you from looking at directly. The guinea pig was hers. The café is a memorial pretending to be a business.

When does Boo first appear?

Boo first appears in Season 1, Episode 1 of Fleabag (2016–2019, BBC/Prime Video).

Who is Boo connected to?

Relationships already established when Boo first appears — nothing from later episodes.

• Fleabag — The café's better half — in flashback

Who else is introduced in this episode?

• Fleabag — She'd tell you her name, but she's talking to you instead
• Claire — The sister with the haircut and the schedule
• Dad — The father who can't finish a sentence about feelings
• Godmother — The artist — passive aggression as a medium
• Martin — The brother-in-law nobody invited, including Claire
• The Bank Manager — The loan, declined; the kindness, extended

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