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TV Time! Derry Girls

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What We’ve Been Watching: Derry Girls

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/derry_girls/s01

There will as always, NOT be any type of actual spoilers.  Please don’t ruin it for anyone who hasn’t seen this show in the comments.  Please and thank you.  Here we go.

Derry Girls is a British teen sitcom created and written by Lisa McGee.  The series was inspired by McGee’s own experiences growing up in Derry, Northern Ireland, in the 1990s, during the final years of the Troubles.  It stars five teenagers living in mid-1990s Derry while attending Our Lady Immaculate College, a fictional girls’ Catholic secondary school based on the real-life Thornhill College, where McGee herself studied.  Derry Girls was filmed in Northern Ireland, with most scenes shot on location in Derry and some in Belfast.  via

Derry Girls

I LOVED this show.  Loved, loved, loved it.  Liv rarely asks us to watch TV with her, and when she does we make the time.

I’m not Catholic, I’m barely Irish according to my Ancestry DNA profile, and I did not attend an all girls high school.  But I cannot express how much I related to the girls in this show.  Example:  I just had a conversation with my brother about John Green.  I love his books, highly – highly recommend, HOWEVER, I just about can’t stand to read them.  He has a way of making you remember being fifteen years old that is very uncomfortable to me.  I do not ever want to be 15 years old again.  This show makes me feel all the feels from my teenage years in the same way.  I see myself in all of the characters and I think that was absolutely the point.

This show is first and foremost a comedy, but it is also honest with the time period so it is heartbreaking at moments too.  Some episodes I need to get to the next one immediately and other ones I have to take a break to go sit quietly and just cry for a while.

Also, if you watch it for no other reason, watch it for the music.  The music clinches it.  Did I mention that I LOVED this show?

This show streams on Netflix.  So, have you watched Derry Girls?  Let me know what you think!

You can find all of the other shows we’ve watched lately, here if you are interested!

away

TV Time: Away

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TV Time:  Away.  Have you seen it?

Away follows the first crewed expedition to Mars, the Mars Joint Initiative. It features an international crew: a Chinese chemist, a world-leading British botanist with no previous experience in space, a Russian cosmonaut with the most experience in space, an Indian medical officer who is second in command, and American commander Emma Green. Emma’s husband trained as an astronaut along with her, and might have commanded the mission but for a medical condition.

The three-year mission launches from the Moon; however, several crew members do not trust Emma’s ability to command because of her response to a crisis situation at the very beginning of the mission.

The series is described as being “about hope, humanity and how ultimately, we need one another if we are to achieve impossible things.” via

Okay.  I have to be honest right up front about this show.  Yes you should definitely go watch it.  Sadly, Netflix has already cancelled it.  Yes.  I know.  Denton and I loved this show and to read that they cancelled it one month after they released it is super weird and maddening.  I’ve read many articles after we finished it to try and comprehend why on earth a streaming service would axe a show that stayed in the number one spot for weeks, and from what I’ve read it comes down to money.  It cost Netflix approximately $6 million dollars an episode to make it.

So I’ll add my plea to all others on the internet:  calling all streaming services, please pick up this absolute gem.  I’m ready and waiting to follow this show to your service!

Now that that’s out of the way, you should block out a weekend to binge this one.  I love Hilary Swank and she is amazing in this show, but I loved the other cast members more.  I won’t tell you my favorites so that I won’t spoil it for you, but I do have them……

Away' Canceled at Netflix After One Season; No Season 2 - What's on Netflix

You can watch it for free if you have Netflix.  So, have you watched Away?  Are you super ticked off that they have already cancelled it?  Did you love it as much as I did?  Let me know what you think!

You can find all of the other shows we’ve watched lately, here if you are interested!