Derry Girls...2nd season is out on Netflix

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Just for fun…The 2nd season of Derry girls came out on Netflix. From my experience, there is some element of truth to the entire thing. 😜

At first I wasn’t sure if I should be offended or amused. I’m leaning towards the latter.

“Are you a fully blown protestant?”

“Sister Michael, I don’t have a Protestant!”

In another episode everybody is confused on the difference between a vegetarian and a lesbian.

 
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Are they speaking English?! I missed most of it because I couldn’t understand what they were saying.

I missed the first season of Derry Girls. I can understand this being popular in the United Kingdom, but I don’t think there is much appeal for me.
 
Is the point of this show to portray Catholics as stupid? Between that and the priest’s lapse it sure seems disrespectful to me.
 
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I’ve got a colleague from this part of the world and she thinks it’s hilarious. The humour wouldn’t translate stateside to be honest
 
I’ve been wondering about it. I don’t have a show to watch at the moment.

Oops. I probably should’ve replied to @jack63
 
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Tis_Bearself said:
Is the point of this show to portray Catholics as stupid?
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No…at least that is not how I took it. I took the point as making light of the troubles in Northern Ireland, and trying to find something that everybody there can laugh at in Northern Ireland. Most of my relatives there really liked it. Perhaps the humor wouldn’t translate well into American humor unless you’ve been to NI. I would tend to think of the humor on the priest’s lapse as having more to do with making fun of the entire situation in NI rather than making fun of the Catholic church…if that makes any sense.
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Are they speaking English?!
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Yes…, but the accent takes a lot of getting used to.
 
on_the_hill said:
I’ve been wondering about it. I don’t have a show to watch at the moment.

Oops. I probably should’ve replied to @jack63
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Stranger Things on Netflix might be a safer and less controversial bet…a bit of a horror series, but mostly a show about the 80’s.
 
I wasn’t sure what to think about the show either when we started season 1 until poor (98 year old) Sister Declan was “struck down in her prime”. After wiping away the tears, I was hooked. 😂
 
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I wasn’t sure what to think about the show either when we started season 1 until poor (98 year old) Sister Declan was “struck down in her prime”. After wiping away the tears, I was hooked. 😂
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People live a looonng time there. The 98 year old sister being struck down in her prime is a bit of an exaggeration…but only a wee bit…
 
Hilarious! Season 1 had us laughing out loud. Started watching season 2 last night. Turn on the sub-titles to decipher the accents. The humour delves into many things and not just the Troubles.
 
Of course, I realized they were speaking
English. My point, not the English my ears
are accustomed to hearing.
 
I can get most of the British and Irish accents, and can understand most of the clip posted here, but that movie “Kes” (the miserable film about the poor abused kid who adopts a falcon and of course it ends badly) I absolutely could not understand 80 percent of the dialogue.

We have this issue in USA too though. Years ago my husband-to-be and I had a friend who would go to eat with us at a 24-hour pancake house on the outskirts of Baltimore. The waitresses there were African-American and had a regional accent and vernacular. Something like “Where is the cardboard box?” would come out like “Where de cahbo bah?” with a Southern twang. My husband and I could understand it, but our friend just couldn’t get it. He would turn to us and ask, “What’d she just say?”
 
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I really do hope the Virgin Mary has a sense of humor on the Derry Girls crying statue episode. I wasn’t sure what I’ve I thought of that one.

I get that episode was meant to be taken in context of the many (unapproved) Virgin Mary apparitions and crying statues all over Ireland in the 80’s and 90’s. To put it gently, many of those were highly doubtful. Yet the people who reported them became small celebrities.
 
I love Derry Girls, I think it’s hilarious. I think the first series was better though - IMO the second suffered from knowing what people found funny and dialling it up to 100. That being said, episode 4 (the wedding/funeral one) is quite possibly my favourite episode of the whole show.
 
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Saw it. Also finished Cloak & Dagger.
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You might try True Detective Season 1 with Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. I think it is on HBO. The “Man in the High Castle” is very good on Amazon prime. As a warning both series have adult scenes, but are well done and philosophical.

As it seems, I’m not the only one here who likes Derry Girls. 😎
 
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I liked that one…it’s based on the Irish civil war as I remember.

On a side note and a discussion from a different thread, I really thought that picture was of Patrick Pearse rather than from the TV series Insurrection. It was of such bad quality, I thought it must be old. Are there no good pictures of Patrick Pearse from the Easter Rising?
 
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I saw “The Wind that Shakes the Barley” some years ago. I’ve actually seen a bunch of his films, I really liked “Cathy Come Home” but his films generally leave me a bit depressed. The opening of “Wind that Shakes the Barley” is certainly a great reminder of why the US doesn’t support gun control.

“Kes” was just too depressing and awful for me though. There was a repeated trope during the era it was made of lonely kids who bonded with special animals who were later brutally killed. It was in many, many books and films and I have always found those extremely hard to watch, even when they have a “happy ending” with the kid getting a new family or a new animal or something. “Kes” obviously didn’t have any such happy ending and left me just wanting to scream, cry and riot. Even without understanding most of the dialogue.

Sorry to derail the thread with a Ken Loach discussion, i will bow out now. I don’t think “Derry Girls” is my cuppa, it feels like too much bias against Irish Catholics to me. I kinda liked “Father Ted” by the same production company, so maybe I’ll just go watch reruns of that one, it’s a better show anyway .
 
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She played an important role, I wonder why she’d be airbrushed out?

Thanks for the picture. You should post (if you want of course) it on the Historic and Iconic Photos thread. I didn’t know it even existed.
 
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