Derry Girls Season 1 Episode 6

girl in athletic clothes and girls in school uniforms

Derry Girls follows Erin Quinn (Saoirse-Monica Jackson), a lovable but self-absorbed teenager, her quirky cousin, Orla (Louisa Harland), friends Clare (Nicola Coughlan) and Michelle (Jamie-Lee O'Donnell), and Michelle's cousin, James (Dylan Llewellyn), an Englishman forced to attend an all-girls Catholic school out of concern for his safety. The show takes a hilariously unorthodox approach to presenting the Troubles in Ireland, pumping each episode full of nineties fashion, everyday adolescent adventures, and signs of the British army. The final sequence of season 1 episode 6 is a perfect case study for the spirit of the show. The cuts back and forth between Orla's step aerobics performance at the school talent show and a news report of the latest bombing artistically represent the extremes of joy and fear that characterized the period for many living through it.

Derry (Northern Ireland)--History

The Troubles

Situation comedies (Television programs)

English

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Netflix

Only Netflix subscribers can watch the episode in its entirety, but the final scene of season 1 episode 6 is available on YouTube for all.