{"id":260273,"date":"2025-07-16T14:17:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T06:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wonderful-indigo-elk.62-72-47-242.cpanel.site\/why-derry-girls-is-the-best-show-to-ever-exist\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T14:17:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T06:17:32","slug":"why-derry-girls-is-the-best-show-to-ever-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/?p=260273","title":{"rendered":"Why Derry Girls Is Sitcom Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I said it. It\u2019s not Friends, or Breaking Bad, or Stranger Things. It\u2019s Derry Girls, a sitcom centering on a motley group of Irish teens during the final years of the conflict known as the Troubles in Northern Ireland. This is my go-to recommendation whenever someone asks for a TV show to watch. This post discusses why this TV show is God&#8217;s gift to earth, and why everyone on the planet should watch it.<\/p>\n<h2>A Sitcom Done Perfectly<\/h2>\n<p>Derry Girls is a sitcom that does everything right, because it understands this: the hallmark of a great sitcom is one with characters in their well-defined archetypes. In Orla, we have the eccentric one. In Clare, we have the voice of reason. In James, we have the English one. It\u2019s so fun to watch Derry Girls because we know exactly how the characters will react to the absurd situations they\u2019ve been put in. <\/p>\n<p>This is part of why the TV show has spawned multiple posts on TikTok portraying how each of the cast would react in certain scenarios. There\u2019s the Derry girls reacting to the release of the last season of The Summer I Turned Pretty TV show, where Michelle is Team Jeremiah and Orla still thinks that Shayla is in the show.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@nooraslaytre\/video\/7515989210579373317\" data-video-id=\"7515989210579373317\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px;\" >\n<section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@nooraslaytre\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@nooraslaytre?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">@nooraslaytre<\/a> idk if anyone else will enjoy this  also this was inspired by andrewsgrotto &#038;lt3 (the accent is obvi inaccurate im canadian xo) <a title=\"derrygirls\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/derrygirls?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#derrygirls<\/a> <a title=\"thesummeriturnedpretty\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/thesummeriturnedpretty?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#thesummeriturnedpretty<\/a> <a title=\"tsitp\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/tsitp?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#tsitp<\/a> <a title=\"skit\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/skit?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#skit<\/a> <a title=\"fyp\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/fyp?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#fyp<\/a> <a title=\"teamconrad\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/teamconrad?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#teamconrad<\/a> <a title=\"teamjeremiah\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/teamjeremiah?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#teamjeremiah<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - Rox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7515989224614988550?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">\u266c original sound &#8211; Rox<\/a> <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s the Derry girls going to the Eras tour, where of course, Ma Mary refers to Taylor Swift as Haylor Swiftie and Clare is panicking over not having an outfit ready yet. These creators don\u2019t even need to tell us which characters they\u2019re playing at the moment, because their personalities are so distinct.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@andrewsgrotto\/video\/7385576763159629088\" data-video-id=\"7385576763159629088\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px;\" >\n<section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@andrewsgrotto\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@andrewsgrotto?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">@andrewsgrotto<\/a> Derry girls dont bave tickets for the Eras Tour in Dublin and Clare is PANNICING!  <a title=\"derrygirls\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/derrygirls?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#derrygirls<\/a> <a title=\"erastour\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/erastour?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">#erastour<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - Andrew \ud83e\udddc\ud83c\udffb\u200d\u2642\ufe0f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7385576846291553057?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">\u266c original sound &#8211; Andrew \ud83e\udddc\ud83c\udffb\u200d\u2642\ufe0f<\/a> <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Not only that, but the show is sprinkled with tons of Irish slang, such as \u201cwee,\u201d and \u201cboke,\u201d and \u201cwean.\u201d The fact that the jokes are often said in Northern Irish accents adds to the show\u2019s charm.<\/p>\n<h2>Humor Balanced With Heaviness<\/h2>\n<p>Derry Girls is set in the 90s, during a troubled time in Ireland\u2019s history. Northern Ireland was divided between Protestants, who mostly wanted Northern Ireland to remain part of the United Kingdom, and Catholics, who mostly wanted to leave the United Kingdom and join a united Ireland. This was a dark time for Irish Catholics, who were faced with violence and discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>But our main characters, who are Catholic and attend a Catholic all-girls school take it in stride and continue living their lives despite the destruction going on around them. This is portrayed perfectly in the first episode, when the girls (and James) still go to their first day of school despite a bomb threat on a nearby bridge. Their primary concern is not the bomb but how they\u2019re going to survive the new school year, and of course, have some fun. Michelle says \u201cDo you think if I told him I had an incendiary device down my knickers, he\u2019d have a look?\u201d about a soldier who is inspecting their school bus.<\/p>\n<p>Although Derry Girls is first and foremost a comedy, the show doesn\u2019t let you forget that the main characters are part of an oppressed social class. In the first episode of season three, when the girls are taken to a police station for questioning after inadvertently aiding in a robbery, their heightened panic at being taken by the police is played for laughs, but underneath it is a valid fear: They are Catholic, and it would be easy for the police to treat them unfairly during the questioning process and make them confess to a crime they didn\u2019t commit.<\/p>\n<h2>A Tribute To Youth And Teenagehood<\/h2>\n<p>Last but not least, this show is a tribute to our youth, when our most pressing concern was who we would take to prom and whether we would pass our exams. Erin, Clare, Orla, Michelle, and James may be kids growing up during a time of war, but they still experience all the trappings of teenagehood: bad decisions, ridiculous escapades, and petty fights between friends. A polar bear might be loose in Belfast in episode three of season two, but the girls aren\u2019t going to let that stop them from attending a Take That concert, because as Erin puts it, barely any artists perform in Ireland given that they can\u2019t stop fighting each other.<\/p>\n<p>This series has it all: young love, eccentric relatives, and one atheist nun.<\/p>\n<p>If I could trade places with anyone in the world, I\u2019d trade places with someone experiencing this show for the very first time. All three seasons are available on Netflix, and the episodes are only 20 minutes long while still packing a punch. So what are you waiting for? Strap in. We\u2019re going to Derry.<\/p>\n<h6><credit>Photo credit: https:\/\/sharedfuture.news\/derry-girls-opening-a-state-of-mind\/,  https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/features\/general\/derry-girls-funny-season-3-netflix-1234771094\/, https:\/\/theweek.com\/articles\/857588\/antinostalgic-power-derry-girls, https:\/\/www.michigandaily.com\/arts\/derry-girls-third-and-final-season-is-absolutely-class\/, https:\/\/thejesuitpost.org\/2022\/11\/derry-girls-finding-hope-in-a-troubled-world\/<\/credit><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve ever been a teenager, had an eccentric friend group, or made a terrible decision, Derry Girls will feel like home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":260274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-thetalk"],"zyndk8_nxtgen_metadata":{"nxtgen_comments":[{"3168":"juskoooo ung accent pa lang \ud83e\udd79\r","3169":"ang saya ng cast grabeeee \ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude02\r","3170":"pLs makE moRe episoodsss \ud83d\ude29\r","3171":"show ng masa ito eh\r","3172":"hayup ka derry girls bat ka ganyan ka galing \ud83d\ude2d\r","3173":"galing galing writer nito grabe\r","3174":"eVeRy EpIsodE iS a bLesSinG\r"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/260274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}