Derry Girls New Series

[Taytocrisps]

Counting down the days here.

[theEndisFar]

Just finished rewatching series 1. It’s so so amazing. The interplay of the stories lines and what was going on in Derry at the time was done superbly. Especially that last scene of the last episode - just had me in floods of tears. Sadly (abs it pains me to say this) it shows series 3 was really quite poor. The final was good with the GFA and was very powerful and emotional.

I’d have been a teen then in Scotland. I’m quite ashamed to say I don’t recall much of it. I have a poor memory so I’m sure I did read about at the time but I didn’t remember it was a referendum which is terrible. I see some others said similar though. What a decision and the poll scene was really well done.

[JacquelineCarlyle]

You can vote for Derry Girls in the NTA awards - they're on the long list so need votes to get to the short list! Please vote!!

[KarenLovesRosario]

@GonnaGetGoingReturns
I normally mostly watch either comedies or serious documentaries but I think im going to start watching that prison drama tonight. Others have recommended. I have also seen she's been in some highly praised short films as well.
Fair play to her

[GonnaGetGoingReturns]

Jamie-Lee is the stand out best actress (she is/was in the prison drama too) here.

She's admitted (I've seen her interviews) that she's not like this in real life at all or wouldn't be.

I think she comes across as assertive as well as bolshy. Very sad to hear about her brother killing someone and that's why she fell out with Erin.

[KarenLovesRosario]

This made me giggle

[notprincehamlet]

Loved it all! Some moments of just perfect comedy like:
Michelle: What’s wrong with saying ‘fanny’? We all have one
James: I don’t
Michelle: You are one

[Girliefriendlikespuppies]

I love Michelle.

The first episode I think is my favourite, it's so funny. Dd and I can pretty much quote the whole episode now!!

[KarenLovesRosario]

I don't know how long she's been acting but regardless she just walks it in every scene.
Absolutely love her Derry accent and T.F it wasn't dumbed down.

[darisdet]

Jamie-Lee does steal every scene she's in. Marvellous!

[JacquelineCarlyle]

Totally agree @KarenLovesRosario - superb!

[KarenLovesRosario]

@FolkSongSweet
Yes, I was also a big Cranberries fan too, so the whole Dolores thing just adds to the emotion of the closing scene.
On a more cheerful note Derry Girls I think also has one of the funniest openings ever for the very first episode of anything. Father Ted's first whole episode was fantastic, but as an opening introduction, the first few minutes of Derry Girls is absolutely brilliant.

[FolkSongSweet]

Yes @KarenLovesRosario i rewatched that scene the other day and was in pieces. Like most people in NI I will never forget where I was when we heard that news.

[KarenLovesRosario]

@FolkSongSweet
That's before we even get into the fact the Omagh bombing was allowed to go ahead by British so called intelligence.
It's the hand on the shoulder from grandad to son-in-law at the end of series one that gets me every single time.

[FolkSongSweet]

NI Tayto (cheese and onion obvs) are the best! I still remember reading the wee cartoon on the back of the packs - “set deep in Ulster’s countryside is Tayto castle where Tayto crisps are made…”

On English ignorance of the troubles - most people I’ve talked about it with over here (in London) have no idea that loyalist paramilitaries existed. They thought that the troubles were the British army (goodies) vs the IRA (baddies). Seriously.

[OverByYer]

Just caught up with the hour finale last night. I loved every second- apart from Clare screeching down the phone. It was very emotional to see how much of an impact the referendum had on ordinary folk and what it meant to them to vote. I loved the Orla dancing segment, she is such a joy.
And Sr Michael sipping her whisky all melancholy.
I had a little cry at the end as I have loved this series so much but think it’s come to its natural end.

id like to see a where are they now special though if Lisa can oblige I’m a year or so!

[KarenLovesRosario]

Michelle clips !
I think Jamie-Lee has been absolutely floorless throughout the whole series, think she's an amazing natural actor that steals every scene.
"Ya wanna move over there James I can't see past your massive closet" 😂

[darisdet]

We only studied Irish history in British Politics and Govt A' Level.

[darisdet]

Thanks @FurryBootsBurney

[FurryBootsBurney]

@darisdet

I wonder if there's a soundtrack based on the series.
I keep meaning to check.

There's a playlist on Spotify

[Somatronic]

The news in Britain was also to blame. I still find BBC coverage of the north of Ireland infuriating sometimes. Basically the coverage was all IRA bad, security forces good, and it seems to me when most Brits think of the northern conflict they think of bombs in England rather than the atrocities in the North or the role of their state forces in murder and terrorism. It's frustrating.

[KarenLovesRosario]

I'm Welsh but spent some of my childhood in schools in England. I'm in my fifties but back then we were definitely not taught any history at all about Wales, Scotland and Ireland/N. Ireland.
Please tell me this has changed someone

[MurderAtTheBeautyPageant]

The only way the current shower in govt would allow there to be a colonial module on the curriculum if it were to be in a 'yay, for the empire. those were the good old days' kind of way.

[Kanaloa]

@Girliefriendlikespuppies

I agree it's shocking but I have never been taught anything about Ireland or Irish history, I would have been a young teen when the GFA happened and would have had no interest in the news.

I think Irish history should be taught in schools, I learnt more watching Derry Girls than I did at school. I almost wonder whether the English are deliberately kept ignorant of a lot of what the English did as it was so bad.

I’ve often thought something like ‘colonial England’ might be a good module for English history classes. I’m at uni now and did an interesting module on colonial and post colonial literature and it’s amazing how narrow the offerings at college etc seem in comparison if you know what I mean.

[KarenLovesRosario]

@MurderAtTheBeautyPageant
Honestly I absolutely love the bit where she finds Colm's story funny

[MurderAtTheBeautyPageant]

Love the Sr Michael clips. At her acerbic best! The part in the wake episode where she barks 'you're not a tongue person are you? Christ but I can't stand the tongue people' at Gerry. And the bit where she's high listening to Uncle Colm's ramblings!