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    Derry Girls: criminally underrated Irish sitcom fuses hilarity with political heft

    Before Normal People had us ruminating on coming-of-age angst and awkward sexual chemistry of Irish teens, another show beat it to the punch
    by Osman Faruqi May 17, 2020 3 minutes
    James Maguire (Dylan Llewellyn), Michelle Mallon (Jamie-Lee O’Donnell), Erin Quinn (Saoirse-Monica Jackson), Orla McCool (Louisa Harland), Clare Devlin (Nicola Coughlan) in Derry Girls. Photograph: Jack Barnes

    Derry Girls has been critically acclaimed (the first season holds a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes) and smashed ratings records in Ireland and the UK, but despite international distribution via Netflix it’s remained criminally under-watched – at least based on my metric of asking everyone I know if they’ve watched the show and being disappointed by the answers.

    Here’s the pitch I use to try to convince people to give it a go: “Imagine a show like The Inbetweeners but funnier,

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