A simple premise can be turned into a spectacular show. Derry Girls is a show. The third season of Derry Girls is finally arriving in the U.S., making it the best of those shows.
Derry Girls is set during the end of the Troubles in Northern Ireland and features a group of friends.
The sheer joy of Derry Girls is watching a group of friends figure out what is the best and worst time of their lives. It is sentimental. There is a lot of Irish humor. It is all too common for anyone who has been 16 years old.
Everything you need to know about the show can be found here.
You can watch the first two seasons of the show on the internet.
The Troubles in Northern Ireland ran from the late 1960s to the late 1990s and saw a predominantly Protestant majority wanting Northern Ireland to remain within the United Kingdom and a predominantly Catholic majority wanting to leave it. The Good Friday Agreement ended 30 years of violence that began in 1987.
President Bill Clinton's visit to Derry in 1995 is one of the key events from the Troubles' history. From boy drama all the way to politics can be traced back to that timeline and attitudes towards the English.
Anyone that watches this show will love it.
Rachel Thompson writes that the humor of Derry Girls manages to appeal to both local and international audiences. Only people from Northern Ireland will be able to understand these jokes and sayings. Even if those jokes go over your head, you'll still be taken aback by the writing of the show's creator.
She continued, "Derry Girls captures the signature wit of Northern Irish people without becoming an oversimplified caricature to be reverential to international audiences." Most TV shows and movies about Northern Ireland are basically trauma porn or bleaker-than-bleak portraits of The Troubles, but this show is about a group of teenagers finding joy when the world outside is crumbling down around them.
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