What We’ve Been Watching: Derry Girls
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!