Should you watch Derry Girls?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Derry Girls
Series · 2018
Amidst the political conflict of Northern Ireland in the 1990s, five secondary school students square off with the universal challenges of being a teenager.
The sides of Derry Girls
- Four girls and one English boy at a Catholic school
- Derry in the 1990s
- A nun headmistress who has seen it all
Derry Girls is good for you if…
- you like Erin, Orla, Clare, Michelle and James getting into trouble.
- you like a gang of friends who fight and always make up.
- you like teenage embarrassment in the middle of the Troubles.
Derry Girls is bad for you if…
- you can't laugh at jokes set among bomb scares and checkpoints.
- you need a thriller's suspense to stay hooked. This is a half-hour comedy of school scrapes.
About: friendship · growing up · the troubles · family
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