Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, a first look at season 3 of the hilarious, wonderful Channel 4/Netflix comedy Derry Girls has appeared. And not a moment too soon.
Fans have been waiting nearly three years for the next Derry Girls chapter. Recently a viral tweet wondered, “Do you ever find yourself randomly thinking “WHERE IS S3 OF DERRY GIRLS?!?!?” or is that just me?” (Narrator: It was not just her.) Ask and ye shall receive, apparently. While we don’t have a release date for the third season yet—nor news of when it might hit distributor Netflix in the US—this teaser trailer sustains us. More Derry Girls has been filmed and edited and will reach our screens in the not-too-distant future. Season 3 is aliiiiiive!
The brilliant series is set in Northern Ireland during The Troubles—which surely sounds like a strange time period for nostalgic, situational humor if you’ve never watched before. But creator and writer Lisa McGee and a wildly talented cast bring the era to pitch-perfect life, with the poignant awkwardness of being a teenager unchanged no matter where in the world we are.
Variety has further details on season 3:
“While there’s hope in the air that The Troubles may finally be over, their troubles are only just getting started as they get ever closer to ‘adulthood,’” reads a description from Channel 4.
“Derry Girls” will once again follow Erin (Saoirse-Monica Jackson), her cousin Orla (Louisa Harland) and friends Clare (Nicola Coughlan), Michelle (Jamie-Lee O’Donnell) and Michelle’s tag along English cousin, aka The Wee English Fella, James (Dylan Llewellyn). The show also stars Tommy Tiernan as Erin’s long-suffering father Gerry, Tara Lynne O’Neill as Erin’s mother Mary, Ian McElhinney as Granda Joe, Kathy Kiera Clarke as Aunt Sarah and Siobhan McSweeney as Sister Michael, the straight-talking Headmistress of Lady Immaculate College, which the group attend.
Even the side characters on this show are vibrant and ridiculously funny (Sister Michael steals every scene she’s in, ever). If you’re new to Derry Girls, there’s no time like the present to catch up before the third season. I guarantee there’s no better way to pass St. Patrick’s Day.
And while you’re at it, please watch the holiday special where the main kids of the cast appear on The Great British Baking Show. If you didn’t already adore them, you will after this.
(image: Netflix/Channel 4)
Here are some other things we saw today:
- BTW, St. Patrick wasn’t even from Ireland, folks. (via CNN)
- The Boys star Karen Fukuhara posted a harrowing message about being assaulted in a hate crime attack, and her co-stars showed their support on social media. (via Variety)
- Here’s another teaser trailer, this time for season 2 of Showtime’s The Flight Attendant. (via The Daily Beast)
- Amazon closes its aquisition of MGM for eleventy gazillion dollars. (via Variety)
- “I’m Fed Up With Investigative Podcasts That Fail to Find Answers” is a very specific mood. (via Gawker)
- The James Webb telescope is sending back astonishing pictures of billion year-old galaxies. (via NDTV)
What did you see out there today?
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