Derry Girls

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Welcome, gentle readers, to the third and final season ofDerry Girls.

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Season three opens just before the start of the 199798 school year in Derry.

In both plots, Troubles-inflected hijinks ensue.

Oh, and all of it includes Erins florid narration in voice-over.

Unfortunately, even their crabby sniping about the artistically dubious project cant distract them for long.

Good A-level results are in turn required for university admissions.)

If they fail, theyll have ruinedherlife.

Lets hit pause here to admire one of the best and most quintessentiallyDerry Girlslines of the episode.

Itll sting some English viewers (as intended) and will likely sail right past viewers elsewhere.

When youre daring the audience to laugh at something awful, the execution has to be perfect.

Hang the consequences, its time for an exam-results heist!

Of course, something their misadventure does not yield is their GCSE results.

They havent been charged, and there is no tape recorder capturing their responses to DCI Neesons questions.

The girls are taking this situation a lot harder than DCI Neeson.

Anyway, when GCSE-results day dawns, what do you know, everyone has passed!

A levels, here they come!

I sure did miss these girls.

I expect nothing less from one of TVs true subversives.