Derry GirlsCatch yourself on.
Amidst the political conflict of Northern Ireland in the 1990s, five secondary school students square off with the universal challenges of being a teenager.
CreatorLisa McGee
Episode 1
Jan 4, 2018
It's the early 90s, the first day of school and a terrible start for 16-year-old Erin as she wakes up to find her cousin Orla reading her diary. And Granda Joe announces there's a bomb on the bridge.
Episode 2
Jan 11, 2018
Everyone is really excited when Sister Michael announces the school trip to Paris. Back at the Quinn house Uncle Colm is visiting and the whole family are losing the will to live.
Episode 3
Jan 18, 2018
The girls are tense about a big exam and naturally jump at a dubious opportunity to get out of it, especially as it involves spending time with the beautiful Father Peter.
Episode 4
Jan 25, 2018
Erin is so excited that teenage Katya 'a child of Chernobyl' is coming to stay, but Katya is not exactly grateful to be in Derry. And there's developments in Granda Joe's love life.
Episode 5
Feb 1, 2018
It's the 12th July and the Quinn family are rushing to get out of Derry before the Orange Parades start. Aunt Sarah's tarot cards predict a disaster for this trip and, for once, she might be right.
Episode 6
Feb 8, 2018
Erin is over the moon when she becomes editor of the school magazine, Orla's obsessed by step aerobics, and Da Gerry is in trouble with Ma Mary. And there's romance for Aunt Sarah.
Peter McGinn
@narrator56
My wife and I really enjoyed watching this show so far, and look forward to the third season. Who’d a thunk it? A comedy series, almost slapstick at times, taking place during the Troubles in Northern Ireland? Okay, no shootings or explosions on camera, but the anxiety of the undeclared war touches down in the story here and there.; The personalities of the leading girls are well-defined and play into the plot of each show. Having a boy from hated England attending the all-girls school was a slice of inspired genius.The girls are gullible and naive yet in some ways street savvy all at once. It must be challenging yet fun for creator and writer Lisa McGhee to dream up the fantastic follies these girls create and then react to. There are a couple of elements that threaten to get a little old and predictable, the deliciously deadpan and strict Sister Michael, for example. But the show wouldn’t be the same without her. The plots get so zany sometimes, I can’t help but wonder if the writer was influenced by One Foot in the Grave, or Faulty Towers. Give this one a try.
Folio Swami
@FolioSwami
the thick accent, the inbred faces, the catholic canon, things were mildly amusing with the first series. the story went quite smooth for the first series. the second series was bad. more of the same, only i started to skip big parts. the third series: somebody has been masturbating at american movies way too much. for the fat white trash the northern ireland constabulary thugs send up choppers??? the girls were obviously too old for the roles, but with the catholic school upbringing probably it's hard to find under-20s to play roles that talk about sex. only by now, the high school girls look like 29 year old grandmas by derry welfare standards. and they are concerned with the test results? by 5 year old the perspective should have been clear: pushing a pram in the rain, and occasionally getting a job as a waitress.
