For anyone that isn’t from Ireland Portrush is the Protestant holiday resort 😂

Absolutely howling all the way through at the Mary and Aunt Sarah 'guess who' storyline, the display KitKats, and the placement of Riverdance and Mmmbop with the storyline :lol: Such a great show.

Absolutely love this show, howling with laughter in every episode! Orla and her mum are my absolute favourites.

 

They’ve just announced an extra feature-length episode focusing on the Good Friday Agreement. Definitely seems a natural end for the show and I’m really excited given how they’ve handled the political issues throughout.

What did everyone think of the hour long finale?

 

I thought it was near perfect!

Very good indeed. Hit in all the right places, emotionally and comedically. Also the use of music was so perfect - Orla's Sunchyme scene, the twice used intro of Ooh Aah...Just A Little Bit to signify the mood of the scene, and So Young as the final song on the credits - of course it had to be that! From 1998 and sums everything up completely.

I think I learnt more about the Good Friday Agreement in that hour than I've ever done in my entire life. A great series and finale, a shame to see it end but it went out on a high

Yeh there was a great mix of politics, culture, and society of the time and as GD said the music was perfect!

i think more than anything derry girls needs a spin off with just the parents... i know their comedy may not warrant a full series but there is something so special with them and the changes of technology for the family.

 

it's interesting how Erin went from being relativley girl-next-door narrative to being quite strange... it was nice. an obvious relationship development between her and James and i'm glad it wasn't pursued any further as it seemed to come out of literally nowhere.

 

it was obvious that Nicola wasn't present for filming during the last episode.

 

what 'Derry Girls' does so well is the comedy with that underlying context of sadness with war - i haven't seen many that do it (the only other example i can think of is 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas').

I never got hugely into the show but the parents for me are the best part about the show, i really enjoyed their scenes.

A bit more Derry on C4 next week with a documentary fronted by Jamie-Lee O'Donnell called The Real Derry next Thursday at 10pm.

Just finished the final series and utterly loved it. They got the balance of humour, politics, popular culture and tragedy so right in this show, not sure many if any others have been so consistently brilliant. Found the last episode really emotional in the end I was moved to tears. Pretty sad it’s over but they ended on a total high.