Derry Girls New Series

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Counting down the days here.

Orla dancing through Derry at the beginning was absolutely glorious.

Loved the beginning too @Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g and the polling station scene was very moving

I managed to hold it together until they mentioned Bloody Sunday. absolutely stunning finale, I haven’t been overly impressed with this series but this perfect episode just redeemed it all.

Loved every second! TV perfection!

There was a lot of moving hardworking staff away in Catholic schools in the 90’s. I don’t think for nefarious reasons (although sometimes it was), but it was definitely the done thing

I'm trying to think of my favourite DG episode and, without consulting a list of eps, I think it would be the wedding/wake one where Mary kills her auntie.

That's mine too! Absolute perfection.

Yes the Bloody Sunday bit set me off too. Glad they put Maggie T in spouting her vitriol. And wonderful John Hume again. And so glad they have used Donna Traynor throughout as reportage, especially since the BBC have treated her shamefully as an older woman. I’ve said this before but it is such a feminist show in every way.

Yes @Cleebope2 I was so pleased to see the tribute to John Hume.

Marvellous from start to finish, I feel quite emotional. It's not often finale's are brilliant but this one was.

Whst happened with Sister Michael at the end? I missed that bit.

At first she said she had taken the priest's advice i.e. not to fight the move. But then she phoned the bishop back..... She didn't go into detail but the inference was that she spoke her mind to the bishop.

Thank you.

I enjoyed trying to work out how they filmed it all, "Claire" was obviously only available the same time as everyone else for a very short time.

Liked Orla at the start, liked all the GFA voting bits, thought Claire being away and the birthday party storyline were a bit crap. Sister Michael’s completely isolated spot of peril was just weird. Usually every line is meaningful but this felt a bit woolly in parts - stretched out to fill the hour? And Chelsea Clinton? Who cares? Finishing on her talking did not do it for me.

What an ending. Absolutely perfect.

Ah, was she unceremoniously given the heave ho for being too old? Bah. She looks (and sounds) exactly as I remember her doing back in the 90s. What a cool thing for her to have been a part of. Being part of an international smash hit sitcom is an unusual thing to happen to a retired regional newsreader.

I’m gutted there was no resolution with the James and Erin storyline. I hope they got together at some point in the future.

Basically yes Classica but it is going to court if it gets that far!! They rejigged her contract and brought in newer cheaper younger folk. She is fighting it, like Sister Michael!

James was my least favourite of the 'girls' and I was unfussed about that romance element. (I liked the guy she had a flirtation with at the hands across the barricades camp). I could se James and Erin having a summer fling and then her head being firmly turned on her first day at university.

More power to her in that case!

I thought it was resolved to perfection in that you could clearly see they were mad about each other and meant the world to each other and that in time they almost certainly would get together. No need to say or show anything, it was all there to see.

Thought this one was okay. Not great and not terrible. I do think it’s hard for programmes nowadays to keep momentum. They always seem to start so strong and then sort of fade away rather than end on a bang/keep momentum. I felt like a perfect ending would have been finishing on series two - or even keeping it as a limited miniseries with just the first. I felt like the third overall was a big stretch and a bit disappointing for a mega fan like me!

OMG @Kanaloa I think we must have been watching different shows as this was honestly the most perfect TV ending! How could you not love it??!!!

I thought it was kind of implied that Erin and James were together, he said about being put in an impossible situation (or something) about having to take sides in the Erin/Michelle falling out and the dancing together, the closeness of the two of them at the end when he was filming her. I know there was always a thing there but I just assumed it was something that had been resolved in that year we didn’t see.

It was a good ending but only an ok episode, it felt drawn out and the inconsistencies were distracting for me. This episode was a year after the last one yet Erin is 18 and in the last episode was only just receiving her National Insurance card so would’ve been just before she was 16? And Clare had moved to Strabane so would’ve been in a totally different polling station.