We’ll be bidding the Derry Girls farewell soon.
The 30-minute comedy’s third and last season will premiere on Friday, Oct. 7, according to a Netflix announcement made on Wednesday. It necessitates preparation.
The comedy is primarily based on 5 Catholic school kids as they deal with “the universal issues of being a teenager,” as stated in the official synopsis, and is set in Northern Ireland amid the political strife in the late ’90s. Along with Saoirse-Monica Jackson as Erin, Louisa Harland as Orla, Nicola Coughlan as Clare, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell as Michelle, as well as Dylan Llewellyn as James, the cast also features Jamie-Lee O’Donnell as Michelle.
The cast will reunite for one final run of the same old shenanigans in Season 3, which has seven episodes. There is hope that The Troubles may eventually be finished, but as Northern Ireland matures, “these band of eejits surely aren’t any time soon.”
Lisa McGee, the show’s creator, said last year that the third season, which had been delayed for so long, would be the final.
“It was always the plan to say goodbye after three [seasons],” McGee said in a statement.
Derry Girls is a coming-of-age tale that follows five stupid teens as they gradually—very gradually—begin to mature, as the environment they call home begins to shift around them and Northern Ireland enters an entirely new, more optimistic phase—which was a brief, magnificent window of time.
“Derry Girls is a love letter to the place I come from and the people who shaped me,” she continued. “It has been an honor to write it and I will be forever proud of everything it’s achieved.”
