Ben Stiller ticks off Fleabag fans by calling it a show "about a sex addict" during the Emmys

Los Angeles Times

"Fleabag is as much a show about a sex addict as it is about a fish riding a bicycle," tweeted writer Rachel Syme in response. As Rachel Leishman explains, "while the show is very sex-driven and Fleabag often is driven by her attitude towards it, it is never established that she is a sex addict. In fact, she doesn’t have sex any more than a male lead character would but, because she is a woman, it is apparently labeled that way? Whatever the reasoning, I didn’t like that label. But I did like that the Emmys realized the brilliance that Phoebe Waller-Bridge brought to us with Fleabag and awarded it as such."