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Derry Girls, Season 1, Episode 1 (Patreon)

Published:
2024-03-04 21:55:44
Edited:
2024-06-18 23:56:20
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2026-06
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Amber

Adore this show so much can't wait to see you guys get into it !

JJTalkz

OMG YES. You guys pick the best shows.

Taylor

Such a great choice for your next show! This show actually made me look more into the Troubles because I was too young in the mid-90s to understand exactly what was going on during this particular time. Also Sister Michael is an ELITE character. One of my favorites ever.

Henrique Jambu

I'm ngl this show is pretty funny but half of the comedy for me is just their accents, especially when Erin (the main one) is speaking, I just love it lol

Kimba

I’m so excited you’re doing this one!

Roland

It took me a second to identify the actor playing David Donnelly, he's one of the main characters in Masters Of The Air (Bubbles).

Roland

I'm glad you guys caught the brutal Bobby Sands joke. When they're all sat around chatting about David Donnelly's (presumably terrible) band, Erin wants Michelle to go along with her, she doesn't want to go on her own. "Bring Bobby Sands", she says pointing at the girl who is suffering after the first two hours of her twenty-four hour charity fast. Bobby Sands was an imprisoned IRA member who was the most famous of a group of hunger strikers within the prison. He starved himself to death in protest..... 🤣🥶

Youtalkingtome
>>131447375

We try lmao. I have a feeling that might be the case. It's very funny but the way that it's shot gives me the feeling that something heavy might happen

Roland

Hi all, Jeff made the suggestion that some homework would be useful, especially for any Patrons outside the UK / Ireland. I DM'd this to J&K ahead of me watching the first episode, but figure it's probably useful to all, and I have some additional background now that I have seen S1E1. The Derry Girls are Northern Irish (trying saying Norn Iron :D ), which is majority Protestant and pro-British. The girls go to a Catholic school, so their relatives would generally be Pro-Republic (I.e. against the British, and thus antagonistic to British soldiers). The show is set in the mid-1990s, after the violence has largely settled down, due to (still secret?) efforts underway to find a path to a lasting peace. One of the key architects is John Hume, the guy seen on the news broadcast. This is portrayed quite well by the discovery of a bomb on a key bridge being a routine annoyance, rather than anything scary. (It's very plausible that the bomb was intended to be discovered and defused,the annoyance / intimidation factor being the important thing). I also considered that the casual mention of a fellow pupil being in the IRA might be a sign of the times as well. Whether true or not, I doubt that would have be done casually ten or twenty years previously, much more serious and dangerous. Below is what I sent to J&K: + Hi both, Jeff made the great suggestion that you guys do a little homework on Northern Ireland / The Troubles before watching Derry Girls. I found what I think is quite a good primer to the overall sense of community relations, right up to the present day...where the "peace walls" are still in place between neighbouring communities. Possibly the closest analogies for the USA are the Civil Rights / Race Relations (1960s onwards), plus maybe what life was like for border communities in the aftermath of the Civil War. It permeated every aspect of life, even if the majority of people just wanted to get on with life. Derry isn't Belfast, but it is in Northern Ireland, and was similarly fraught with sectarian divides. Case in point, even the name of the city was (is?) disputed, with BBC having strict rules on how often it should use the name Derry, or its original(?) name Londonderry, during news reports. It sounds funny...and it kinda is...while simultaneously being deadly (literally) serious. I have no doubt that Derry Girls will touch on this stuff a lot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAAmf6eTReQ + I hope this was useful to everyone!

AudeAudor

Great show ! One of my most recent favorites. <3 If you've seen "Game Of Thrones", you may recognize the face of one of the actors, Erin's grandfather / Granda Joe is played by Ian McElhinney, who played a rather significant characters in GoT (you may have guessed who by now ;). Also, hi Kitty ! <3<3

Joy M

There’s a great companion podcast “Talking Derry Girls” that you can listen to as well. It is 3 women who host and they reflect on living through this time period in Derry and review the show. I believe 2 are Catholic and one is Protestant. I highly recommend it!

Joy M

As someone who attended an all-girls Catholic high school during the early 1990s, I have to tell you how much this speaks to me and my friends. The nuns from my K-8th grade school were all from Ireland, as well. Some things might be particular to that experience: the lame assemblies, the attempts to individualize our uniforms, etc. Some things are universal: parents and teachers just don’t understand, liking a boy, school work, class distinctions, and so on.

Joy M
>>131453588

The actress Siobhan McSweeney who plays Sis Michael won a BAFTA for this role. Her acceptance speech is epic. It doesn’t give away anything about the show, so feel free to YouTube it.