“Bigger and crazier”. Derry Girls returns tomorrow.
After the credits rolled and our beloved Derry girls – and the wee English fella – took their last aerobic steps, the countdown was already on because the debut season of Lisa McGee’s comedy was a runaway success.
Hell, we knew that before it even finished because Channel 4 actually commissioned the second season before the first one finished. Since then, the show has won countless awards and become a bonafide hit around the world.
Well, the rest of the world are probably raging because we get to see the trials and tribulations of Erin, Michelle, Clare, Orla, James, and everyone else before them.
In recent days, the cast have been doing a promotional tour and ahead of the Season 2 premiere tomorrow, Channel 4 released a few tidbits of information.
The official synopsis states: “Northern Ireland is growing up – the gang certainly aren’t. And peace throws up its own challenges – like how to persuade your parents to let you go to a reconciliation concert in the den of iniquity that is Belfast (“you might as well sell the wains into white slavery!”) or how to hunt down Bill Clinton’s “Base Camp” when he visits Derry. But it’s not just peace stressing our gang out – there’s protestant boys, an exciting new teacher, a wedding, a prom, an exotic new classmate and that’s not even the half of it. Life is just one problem after another.”
As stated previously, Ardal O’Hanlon has joined the cast as the mammies boy Eamon but a memorable character from the first season will be returning too, Kevin McAleer as Uncle Colm.
There was a lot of love for the character after his memorable debut.
Here’s hoping that he has even more stories to bore the arse off the Quinn family and everyone else!
With regards to the narrative approach that Season 2 takes, Lisa McGee (writer/creator) said that: “Yes, we do the first IRA ceasefire, and then after that Bill Clinton, which happened in ’95. Bill Clinton visits Derry, and it’s just all the excitement about that, with the president of the USA coming to Derry, and how the family and the girls respond to that.
“The idea of Derry being on the world news, for something other than violence, is a first. So, we recreated that in Derry, in the Guildhall Square, where it happened. That was crazy, for me, because I was a teenager when he came, and I remember it all very well. So, to relive it was mad.”
There’s no need to worry because there isn’t a chance in hell of our beloved Derry girls wising up. In fact, Dylan Llewellyn (James) said that “it’s going to be bigger and crazier, the girls and I get into much more trouble.”
As for the first episode, here’s what’s in store.
“Erin and the rest of the gang are excited to attend an outdoor pursuits weekend which aims to bring Protestant and Catholic school kids together as part of a peace initiative. But peace is the last thing on Michelle’s mind once she finds out that there will be Protestant lads there!”
You know what you’ll be watching at 21:15 on Tuesday,
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