We have to show identification to buy alcohol, or get a library card, or open a bank account. Why shouldn’t we have to show ...
Lisa McGee said she had envisaged her new show, “How to Get to Heaven From Belfast,” as a sort of modern, funny “Murder, She Wrote.” Just don’t expect tired Irish stereotypes. By Ali Watkins Reporting ...
Like McGee herself and the titular “Derry Girls” inspired by her upbringing, Saoirse (Roisin Gallagher), Robyn (Sinéad Keenan) and Dara (Caoilfhionn Dunne) are alumnae of an all-girls Catholic school ...
At first, How to Get to Heaven from Belfast looks like a grief story: three estranged friends reunite for the funeral of a fourth. But it quickly pivots into a disappearance mystery, and then ...
Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter For her next act, McGee has shifted her focus… 70 miles or so down the road. This time around, she’s still chronicling female ...
Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee is spicing up our screens with a brand-new mystery series: How to Get to Heaven from Belfast. The Irish screenwriter’s eight-part series dropped on Netflix on February ...
It would have been easy for Lisa McGee to follow Derry Girls with something similar — perhaps a sequel set today. And in some ways, that's exactly what she's done. The eccentric trio in How To Get To ...
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It's hard work following up a seminal series like Derry Girls, and while many may try to draw comparisons between the Channel 4 comedy and Lisa McGee's glossy new series, How to Get to Heaven from ...
The Virginia Cavaliers face the Clemson Tigers in the ACC Tournament. Thursday's game is the second meeting this season between the two teams. The Cavaliers won the previous matchup 73-63.
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. How do you follow a smash hit like Derry Girls? That sitcom, about a group of school friends growing up in the ...