In Bridgerton Season 3, Penelope Featherington has finally grown up to become the main character – and with her Nicola Coughlan into the spotlight of the hit series. Behind the Irish actress lies a versatile talent that she has already proven in another series that is currently streaming on Netflix with 3 seasons. We are talking about Derry Girls.
Derry Girls with Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan on Netflix: Coming of age chaos in the Northern Irish province
Derry Girls revolves around a group of friends in the small, Catholic town of Derry in Northern Ireland in the 1990s. Derry natives Erin (Saoirse-Monica Jackson), Clare (Nicola Coughlan), Orla (Louisa Harland) and Michelle (Jamie-Lee O’Donell), as well as Michelle’s English cousin James (Dylan Llewellyn), who has moved there, navigate the school and leisure life of their youth.
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The Derry Girls with Nicola Coughlan
They regularly find themselves in unpleasant and absurd situations with their classmates, the teaching staff around school principal Sister George Michael (Siobhan McSweeney) and their respective families and dream of one day outgrowing their province.
Derry Girls is full of quirky characters and absurdly great humor
What makes Derry Girls special are, on the one hand, the quirky characters around the eponymous group of friends, who are brilliantly brought to life in the series by Nicola Coughlan, Saoirse-Monica Jackson and Co. On the other hand, the Irish series impresses with its very specific and dry humorwhich ranges from situational comedy to cleverly constructed script lines by series creator and author Lisa McGee.
And the cast utters it so effortlessly and authentically that you can’t help but burst into hysterical laughter and take the Derry Girls, with their all too mundane and understandable teenage problems, to your heart. Comedy hasn’t been this good and innovative since Fleabag.
It is not for nothing that the series has a rating of 7.9/10 points from the Moviepilot community – leaving Bridgerton (6.6/10 points) far behind. At Rotten Tomatoes, Derry Girls even has an incredible critics’ score of 99 percent against an audience rating of 94 percent.
Instead of Bridgerton: Where can you watch Derry Girls?
The first season of Derry Girls premiered in 2018 on the British channel Channel 4 and ended there with a third season in 2022. You can find the complete series here in the streaming subscription at Netflix.