There’s plenty of shocking TV out there but today’s Fleabag (BBC Three) was both shocking and shockingly good. For a series that has already ripped up the rulebook of what TV can say and do, that is some praise.

The shocks came in two forms. There was the open provocation of seeing a female unbeliever kneeling in a confession box and kissing a priest (see below). And there was the gentler – though no less remarkable – disturbance of Fleabag’s side-eyes to camera becoming visible in the real world. “What is that thing you’re doing?” said the Priest (Andrew Scott) to Fleabag (Phoebe Waller-Bridge), as she glanced at the camera, something she’s been doing for one and a half series unnoticed by the…