I propose that the old "Which Sex and the City girl are you?" question be replaced by "Which Derry Girl?" I'm Clare. I'm not a wee lesbian but everything else is on the nose.
"I knew it. When I woke up this morning I had a feeling something terrible was going to happen, and also that essentially, deep down, I'm quite an evil person." "It's a hangover, Clare. You'll be grand."
Am from Northern Ireland (don't live there any more tho), and the accuracy of DG is KILLING ME. Watching an episode is like sitting in a room with my family.
Nerdery time: I think that everyone who runs D&D should watch Derry Girls for two reasons. 1. The constant escalation of nonsense is basically my platonic ideal of how a session should go. 2. One of the best examples I've ever seen of how different alignments can interact within a party, causing interesting disagreements and situations (specifically Michelle's chaotic neutral to Clare's lawful good)
Guess I should start it this weekend. Could use a distraction. I went to the doctor this week and hey, I'm depressed! Which I already knew, but at least the mental health referral process is rolling now.
My most important Derry Girls take is that it is DEEPLY unrealistic that Clare, my dearest wee lesbian, did not IMMEDIATELY have a crush on the hot English teacher from series two!!! She wore suits!!! she stood Like That™!!!! No lesbian would stand a chance!!!!!
Also, I loved the rock the boat moment and would like to humbly submit that Americans ( or at least white Americans who are polish and my family) have Shout as our group wedding dance. My Indian immigrant college roomie was so confused at my wedding when it started. “ wait, what are you all doing, why does everyone know to do this?” “ this is a custom of my people. Just follow along.”
The juxtaposition of these people being incredibly endearing and ridiculous in their day-to-day lives with the backdrop of an ever-present conflict simmering around them feels very relatable without hammering it over our head. This is exactly the comedy of our times.
Derry Girls is just so incredibly good-hearted. So few shows are.
After bingeing the second season I, hand to God, almost described someone attractive as "a ride" (pronounced ROID, naturally.) And mentally reminded myself I had to pick up "the wains" after work.
Thank you to the person who gave me the Learned League referral!!! I've done two days so far and I'm having a great time!!! I was in first place in my rundle after the first day and then promptly realized on day 2 I was just lucky with the questions.
I love love love Derry Girls. Raging that they changed the song that Orla steps to in the talent show in the S1 finale from Like A Prayer to a Take That song on Netflix, though!! (I'm in Ireland though so I can just watch it on Channel 4's streaming app/site and see the original though, so it's grand for me, lol.)
Does anyone have any recommended readings on The Troubles? I loved the show, but I have very little historical context for that time and would like to know more.
Nicole! Am catching up on Nicole Byer’s “Why Won’t You Date Me” and I just got to the episode where Demi explains how your Crush Chaos Friday kicked off his relationship and I legit squealed like he had mentioned a personal friend of mine. You are truly one of the brightest spots in our universe.
I would love to read some think pieces about Derry Girls! It feels like it's been a great slow-burning show which has really spread by word of mouth, mostly among women.
My actual name is Clare, spelled with no 'i' which is so rare outside of Ireland, and it is doing me such good to hear you all saying how much you love me! Also Nicole, I was the person who asked for your dry shampoo recommendations and got the fancy Sashajuan one from Sephora and it's great. Thanks!
My mom has a theory that every group of girl friends has a corresponding personality to the Derry Girls, and when I asked who Michelle was among her her high school friends, she said "a girl named Laura, we don't talk to her anymore......she was trouble" and it's been cracking me up for days
My mum is from Sligo (any Sligo/west coast peeps out there?) and the wooden spoon thing in the first ep was how I knew Derry Girls was real. I had such a VISCERAL reaction to that from my childhood, I had to call my mother and tell her, but I was laughing too hard for the first like, full 2 minutes to tell her what I was laughing about. Also, Sister Michael is the GOAT.
I'm still SO MAD about the way no one at the school will accommodate James needing to use a washroom in the first episode of S1. It's played for laughs but ALSO he's right, access to a washroom is a human right! And everyone just laughs at him/yells at him for asking about it in increasing desperation!
“I hate the tongue people” when watching with my Catholic spiritual director mother led to her ranting for five minutes about the tongue people and how unsanitary it is. Bless this show.
As an aside, I'm in Vermont this weekend visiting my parents and the Fiancee and I are talking about moving up here in the next year. It's exciting but scary.
Derry Girls has by far been my most successful "you need this in your life now" evangelism. I have seen the first series at least four times through as a result of sitting down with friends/family to watch with them.
(also between my first and second viewing I read "Say Nothing" by Patrick Radden Keefe and got excellent historical context that made the show even better)
Can I say I got my period and I need tampons and pizza so bad and I've been fighting my parents about my cheap-ass wine (1.50 a bottle, I live in Spain) all week and don't wanna ask them? They'll give me the cash but they don't have the cash. (For tampons. Not for pizza.)
I have only watched 1 episode of Derry Girls so far, but Rock the Boat was 100% a feature of my late eighties teenage discos in Dublin. Can't wait to watch the rest
I love this show so much! Is anyone else of that age (teenager in the 90s) and get absolutely undone by it from that perspective? The music, the clothes, being in a gang of unruly girls? The soundtrack absolutely made the show for me.
If we're tagging ourselves, I am a Michelle that grew up to be a Sister Michael.
I've watched it twice through now and told my bf last night we have to watch it together. He said "Sure, when you're ready for a rewatch we can start it together." As if I wasn't ready for another rewatch after immediately finishing the last episode?!?! Smh
I will be spending Quality Time with Derry Girls in the next little while. It's already influenced my word choice.
Are there any other lefties out there who'd like to be part of a friendly (so far) online reading group? We're starting with the first wee bit of the Communist Manifesto and are having our first chat Monday night. Dudes are involved but the mod/leader seems to be an actual Decent Soul. Contact me at testingwithfire at ProtonMail dot com if interested.
This will be a very busy weekend otherwise, too structured, again. I keep doing this to myself. There can be Too Many Fun Activities.
The "Across the Barricade" episode was pure poetry - I joined a similar program called "The Ulster Project" in highschool that brought 12 Northern Irish teens (both Catholic and Protestant) to the USA stay with host families and interact for the month of July. Pretty sure everyone's main goal was finding an international boyfriend or girlfriend.
It just doesn’t make any sense why she wouldn’t want her bowl back
SISTER MICHAEL IS EVERYTHING TO ME. Also Clare. Also the wee English fella.
I propose that the old "Which Sex and the City girl are you?" question be replaced by "Which Derry Girl?" I'm Clare. I'm not a wee lesbian but everything else is on the nose.
I just started Derry Girls after finishing Fleabag and I'm delighted by this hot priest marathon I'm inadvertently on!
My favorite Derry Girls B plot was Mary and Sarah being total monsters to their father's very sweet and pious girlfriend.
Every time Sister Michael is Deeply Skeptical of Everything is my favorite.
I am supposed to hear back about a “dream job” today and I’d love y’all thoughts and prayers. I’m very stressed out in the waiting!
I've never heard anyone sing so dreadfully so consistently the way Jenny does.
"You will go far in life, Jenny... But you will not be well liked."
"I knew it. When I woke up this morning I had a feeling something terrible was going to happen, and also that essentially, deep down, I'm quite an evil person." "It's a hangover, Clare. You'll be grand."
Am from Northern Ireland (don't live there any more tho), and the accuracy of DG is KILLING ME. Watching an episode is like sitting in a room with my family.
Nerdery time: I think that everyone who runs D&D should watch Derry Girls for two reasons. 1. The constant escalation of nonsense is basically my platonic ideal of how a session should go. 2. One of the best examples I've ever seen of how different alignments can interact within a party, causing interesting disagreements and situations (specifically Michelle's chaotic neutral to Clare's lawful good)
Guess I should start it this weekend. Could use a distraction. I went to the doctor this week and hey, I'm depressed! Which I already knew, but at least the mental health referral process is rolling now.
My most important Derry Girls take is that it is DEEPLY unrealistic that Clare, my dearest wee lesbian, did not IMMEDIATELY have a crush on the hot English teacher from series two!!! She wore suits!!! she stood Like That™!!!! No lesbian would stand a chance!!!!!
I understand that this is a Derry Girls thread, but I have some Mindhunter related content to share??
In which Holt McCallany repeatedly gives interviews in French, and Jonathan Groff is HOT.FOR.IT: https://twitter.com/mindcunter/status/1166793589692780546
The funeral episode of Derry Girls made me laugh harder than anything I have ever seen on tv
Also, I loved the rock the boat moment and would like to humbly submit that Americans ( or at least white Americans who are polish and my family) have Shout as our group wedding dance. My Indian immigrant college roomie was so confused at my wedding when it started. “ wait, what are you all doing, why does everyone know to do this?” “ this is a custom of my people. Just follow along.”
The juxtaposition of these people being incredibly endearing and ridiculous in their day-to-day lives with the backdrop of an ever-present conflict simmering around them feels very relatable without hammering it over our head. This is exactly the comedy of our times.
Derry Girls is just so incredibly good-hearted. So few shows are.
After bingeing the second season I, hand to God, almost described someone attractive as "a ride" (pronounced ROID, naturally.) And mentally reminded myself I had to pick up "the wains" after work.
Thank you to the person who gave me the Learned League referral!!! I've done two days so far and I'm having a great time!!! I was in first place in my rundle after the first day and then promptly realized on day 2 I was just lucky with the questions.
1. Clare is my favorite Derry Girl, all other opinions are wrong
2. I cannot WAIT for Nicola Coughlan as Penelope in the Bridgertons, she is my FAVORITE character
3. Can we discuss the movie adaptation of Merrily We Roll Along being filmed over TWENTY YEARS?!!???
What is wrong with the big bowl??
I'm probably the only American who, when Cousin Eamon appeared, shouted "DOUGAL!"
I love love love Derry Girls. Raging that they changed the song that Orla steps to in the talent show in the S1 finale from Like A Prayer to a Take That song on Netflix, though!! (I'm in Ireland though so I can just watch it on Channel 4's streaming app/site and see the original though, so it's grand for me, lol.)
Does anyone have any recommended readings on The Troubles? I loved the show, but I have very little historical context for that time and would like to know more.
Nicole! Am catching up on Nicole Byer’s “Why Won’t You Date Me” and I just got to the episode where Demi explains how your Crush Chaos Friday kicked off his relationship and I legit squealed like he had mentioned a personal friend of mine. You are truly one of the brightest spots in our universe.
Are you sure five bags of chips is enough?
I can't get over the expressiveness of Erin's face!
I would love to read some think pieces about Derry Girls! It feels like it's been a great slow-burning show which has really spread by word of mouth, mostly among women.
Does Derry Girls make anyone else openly weep unexpectedly?
Also who among us cannot say we have an Uncle Colm somewhere in the family? Even if he's an aunt?
My actual name is Clare, spelled with no 'i' which is so rare outside of Ireland, and it is doing me such good to hear you all saying how much you love me! Also Nicole, I was the person who asked for your dry shampoo recommendations and got the fancy Sashajuan one from Sephora and it's great. Thanks!
My mom has a theory that every group of girl friends has a corresponding personality to the Derry Girls, and when I asked who Michelle was among her her high school friends, she said "a girl named Laura, we don't talk to her anymore......she was trouble" and it's been cracking me up for days
Me: Do I look ok?
My husband: You look like the sister in Derry Girls.
Me: Orla?
Him: No, the sister.
Me: Sarah?!
Him: Yeah, Sarah at a funeral.
Apparently, my dress was too short for work ... 😂
My mum is from Sligo (any Sligo/west coast peeps out there?) and the wooden spoon thing in the first ep was how I knew Derry Girls was real. I had such a VISCERAL reaction to that from my childhood, I had to call my mother and tell her, but I was laughing too hard for the first like, full 2 minutes to tell her what I was laughing about. Also, Sister Michael is the GOAT.
I'm still SO MAD about the way no one at the school will accommodate James needing to use a washroom in the first episode of S1. It's played for laughs but ALSO he's right, access to a washroom is a human right! And everyone just laughs at him/yells at him for asking about it in increasing desperation!
“I hate the tongue people” when watching with my Catholic spiritual director mother led to her ranting for five minutes about the tongue people and how unsanitary it is. Bless this show.
I will only be addressed as a 'wee lesbian' from now on.
As an aside, I'm in Vermont this weekend visiting my parents and the Fiancee and I are talking about moving up here in the next year. It's exciting but scary.
My love for Clare is so pure.
I have nothing intellectual to contribute but I just adore Derry Girls. The writing is so good and the acting is excellent.
Derry Girls has by far been my most successful "you need this in your life now" evangelism. I have seen the first series at least four times through as a result of sitting down with friends/family to watch with them.
(also between my first and second viewing I read "Say Nothing" by Patrick Radden Keefe and got excellent historical context that made the show even better)
Can I say I got my period and I need tampons and pizza so bad and I've been fighting my parents about my cheap-ass wine (1.50 a bottle, I live in Spain) all week and don't wanna ask them? They'll give me the cash but they don't have the cash. (For tampons. Not for pizza.)
I have only watched 1 episode of Derry Girls so far, but Rock the Boat was 100% a feature of my late eighties teenage discos in Dublin. Can't wait to watch the rest
I love this show so much! Is anyone else of that age (teenager in the 90s) and get absolutely undone by it from that perspective? The music, the clothes, being in a gang of unruly girls? The soundtrack absolutely made the show for me.
If we're tagging ourselves, I am a Michelle that grew up to be a Sister Michael.
I've watched it twice through now and told my bf last night we have to watch it together. He said "Sure, when you're ready for a rewatch we can start it together." As if I wasn't ready for another rewatch after immediately finishing the last episode?!?! Smh
I will be spending Quality Time with Derry Girls in the next little while. It's already influenced my word choice.
Are there any other lefties out there who'd like to be part of a friendly (so far) online reading group? We're starting with the first wee bit of the Communist Manifesto and are having our first chat Monday night. Dudes are involved but the mod/leader seems to be an actual Decent Soul. Contact me at testingwithfire at ProtonMail dot com if interested.
This will be a very busy weekend otherwise, too structured, again. I keep doing this to myself. There can be Too Many Fun Activities.
I love Derry girls with my whole heart.
Does anyone see a strong and welcome resemblance btwn Sister Michael and Merriweather from Sleeping Beauty?
Are you now best buds with only Nicola Coughlan (which is awesome) or with the rest of the cast and crew as well?
The "Across the Barricade" episode was pure poetry - I joined a similar program called "The Ulster Project" in highschool that brought 12 Northern Irish teens (both Catholic and Protestant) to the USA stay with host families and interact for the month of July. Pretty sure everyone's main goal was finding an international boyfriend or girlfriend.
The frantic prayer to St Anthony in the car is the most relatable depiction of a Catholic on TV I have ever watched in my life.