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    How an 'incredible' real-life feat gave a TV show about 'the Troubles' its happy ending

    After three long, agonizing years, "Derry Girls" has finally returned to American television. The nostalgic coming-of-age comedy, set in Northern Ireland in the 1990s, follows a group of Catholic schoolgirls (and one boy) whose adolescent high jinks unfold against the backdrop of "the Troubles." The last time we saw the gang — aspiring writer Erin (Saiorse-Monica Jackson), her space-cadet ...
    by Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times Oct 04, 2022 8 minutes
    Louisa Harland as Orla in the series finale of“ Derry Girls.”.

    After three long, agonizing years, "Derry Girls" has finally returned to American television.

    The nostalgic coming-of-age comedy, set in Northern Ireland in the 1990s, follows a group of Catholic schoolgirls (and one boy) whose adolescent high jinks unfold against the backdrop of "the Troubles."

    The last time we saw the gang — aspiring writer Erin (Saiorse-Monica Jackson), her space-cadet cousin Orla (Louisa Harland), studious Clare (Nicola Coughlan), party girl Michelle (Jamie-Lee O'Donnell) and her English cousin James (Dylan Llewellyn) — it was late 1995 and President Clinton was visiting Derry to deliver a hopeful speech about the ongoing peace process in Northern Ireland.

    The third and final season, released on Netflix this week (after airing this spring in the U.K.) largely shies away from history and leans into '90s nostalgia: There are pivotal episodes revolving around the Spice Girls and Fatboy Slim.

    But the series finale, "The Agreement," puts politics front and center. It is set in the spring of 1998, as the people of Derry are preparing to vote in a historic referendum on the Good Friday Agreement, which would eventually bring peace to Northern Ireland, while Erin and Orla are celebrating an equally historic milestone: turning 18.

    Everyone in Derry is buzzing about the referendum and trying to understand what

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