Derry Girls

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Anyone watching?

Loved Michelle with the hoops and the mouth. she was very “real”.

I loved this, I think it'll get better as the episodes go on, I couldn't tell the accents weren't genuine but then I haven't heard many northern Irish accents so I wouldn't notice anyway.

I loved it, it made me actual lol I did think there was slight overacting with the blonde lead too though.
DH kept saying how posh they sounded 😁

The bus scene made me laugh. There was no backing down in my day. Big sister or no big sister it was more like “fucking move now ya wee scrote before I drag you by the roots off this bus. And you can tell your sister she’ll get the same”

I can't imagine ever having the balls to sit on the back seat, even when I was a fifth year! It's meant to be mid-nineties, just before the GFA, so a few years before I went to school on the other side of the border. I didn't mind the accents too much, but my friend who went to school in Derry didn't like them. Are the girls not all from NI then, or just not Derry?
I saw it described different places as being like the Inbetweeners but with Derry girls, so certainly wasn't expecting anything gritty.

I also related a little too hard to the trocaire starvation fast. It was an early lesson in that I would never be a candidate for fad diets.

I've just watched it.

I am exactly the right age for this. I remember going on the occasional cross border trip at school and the Brits searching the bus at the border. The wee lads weren't much older than us and they were easy made blush...

And I loved the character of Michelle. She was perfect.

I belly laughed at the wooden spoon bit. That is such an NI ma thing!

I loved it.

I heard the writer in Winabs Hour, it is based on her teenage experiences

I dint mind them all looking too old. It’s the same in the Inbetweeners and Bad Educatuion, I suppose the older the actors the more they have to choose from.

I wish the styling had been a bit more authentic though, they didn't look quite right. Loved the vintage Ulsterbus though!

*Womans Hour

I thought it was shite - apart from curly hair girl who was the only one who seemed real. Gurning girl was just annoying, and seems too old?

I belly laughed at the wooden spoon bit. That is such an NI ma thing!

Yep! I will never forget the day my mum rattled ours so hard off the kitchen table in the middle of a big threatening warning about her bringing it across the back of my legs and it broke! DSIS was there and the two of us just looked at each other and burst into links of laughter. My mum could do nothing so she laughed too and that was the end of the wooden spoon. She got another one but it had lost all its power

I was really looking forward to this but just deleted it after 10 minutes the acting was so atrocious.

Just watched it and I enjoyed it. Agree that Michelle was brilliant, very very funny and well observed. Not dying about Erin (bit OTT) but I often find the characters that are supposed to be the "normal" ones in sitcoms are the most boring. It's nice having a comedy show set here, I don't want a gloomy gritty programme with the backdrop of the troubles. If you want that stick on Spotlight.

It might have been posh-Derry accents but if you want a program like this to have mass appeal I don't think you could stick with a thick Derry accent. So many jokes and parts of the dialogue would be lost on most people from outside NI/the border area because of the spreed and how broad it is. You should hear how my Co. L/Derry cousin sounded after her first term at uni in England, she had to slow it right down to give people a chance.

I loved this and laughed out loud at some of the second half. It’s funny - I’d never have bothered giving this a second glance if I hadn’t heard the review on woman’s hour. Brilliant writing.

I don't want a gloomy gritty programme with the backdrop of the troubles.

Agree. It was gloomy enough living through it. And if there is one thing we do well here in NI- it’s taking the piss out of ourselves.

And yes the accents needed to be diluted a bit to travel well. I’m glad that wee NI And NI actors are getting a wider audience.

I watched it again tonight as wanted my DH (English) to watch it & I thought it was brilliant 2nd time round.

I was totally over being bothered about their accents or ages & just laughed out loud the whole way through! Was ace!

My DH enjoyed it too & was laughing out loud in parts - he understood it in the main, only asked what they were saying once.

I agree that Michelle was great, and that the make up was all wrong. And I got a shock when I realised that it was filmed in my old school. DP (English) struggled to understand the accents, whereas I found them a bit too toned down.

What school is it Broomstick?

Oh no, I missed it. Don't live in the UK- any way I can see it? (Useless)

Clive is a wee prod from East Belfast, Clive came back from Ibiza, got on the wrong bus at Aldergrove airport, then fell asleep, woke up in Derry surrounded by Russians and Fenians, Clive is absolutely shtting himself"

Loved that line!! Poor Clive - in the 90s that would have been terrifying.

@Eve I was crying with laughter at that, brilliant stuff

Me too - could hardly breathe for laughing at that part