“Derry Girls” is ending with its upcoming third season, creator and writer Lisa McGee said Thursday on Twitter.
“It was always the plan to say goodbye after three series,” McGee wrote. “‘Derry Girls’ is a coming-of-age story following five ridiculous teenagers as they slowly… very slowly… start to become adults, while around them the place they call home starts to change too and Northern Ireland enters a new more hopeful phase — which was a small, magical window of time. ‘Derry Girls’ is a love letter to the place I come from and the people who shaped me. It has been an honour to write it and I will be forever proud of everything it’s achieved.”
That place was (pretty obviously) Northern Ireland. The time was the early 1990s, which was toward the tail end of a 30-year-long ethno-nationalist conflict there dubbed “The Troubles.” “Derry Girls” navigates that period through...
“It was always the plan to say goodbye after three series,” McGee wrote. “‘Derry Girls’ is a coming-of-age story following five ridiculous teenagers as they slowly… very slowly… start to become adults, while around them the place they call home starts to change too and Northern Ireland enters a new more hopeful phase — which was a small, magical window of time. ‘Derry Girls’ is a love letter to the place I come from and the people who shaped me. It has been an honour to write it and I will be forever proud of everything it’s achieved.”
That place was (pretty obviously) Northern Ireland. The time was the early 1990s, which was toward the tail end of a 30-year-long ethno-nationalist conflict there dubbed “The Troubles.” “Derry Girls” navigates that period through...
- 9/23/2021
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- The Wrap
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