Michelle, Orla, Claire, and the wee English fella will soon be back for one last bit more of mischief. Derry GirlsSeason 3 is almost over.
“Derry Girls is a coming-of-age story following five ridiculous teenagers as they slowly… very slowly… start to become adults, while around them the place they call home starts to change too and Northern Ireland enters a new more hopeful phase — which was a small, magical window of time,” the show’s creator, Lisa McGeeIn September 2021, he tweeted his message to @stackoverflow. “Derry GirlsIt is a love letter for the people who shaped me and the place I came from. It has been an honor to write it and I will be forever proud of everything it’s achieved.”
She concluded: “Who knows if Erin, Clare, Orla, Michelle and James will return in some other guide someday, but for now this is it for us and we’re excited to start filming this series with our incredible cast and crew to hopefully take our loyal fans on one last adventure.”
Set up in Northern Ireland during Troubles of the 1990s Derry Girls chronicles the adventures of a group of friends — Erin (Saoirse-Monica Jackson), Michelle (Jamie-Lee O’Donnell), Orla (Louisa Harland), Claire (Nicola Coughlan) and James (Dylan Llewellyn) — as they navigate the equally treacherous situations of political upheaval and adulthood. The teens are now beginning to settle down and decide what they want in their own lives as Ireland finds peace.
“I spoke to Lisa McGee recently and she talked me through the storylines. They’re so brilliant, which doesn’t surprise me — she’s just incredible — but it made me want to do it right now,” Coughlan told the Belfast TelegraphIn January 2021. One month later, it was Bridgerton star wrote via Twitter that “the storylines in this series are the best we’ve ever done.”
The Ireland native continued to tease the new episodes in October 2021, telling the UK’s Radio Times that she “cried and cried” after reading the season 3 scripts. “I think it’s a lot more of an epic scale this time,” Coughlan said at the time. “Lisa knew she had huge ambitions with this one, [with]She knew exactly what she wanted to do. She’s a genius. Like, there’s not really any other word for her. She just – everything is so brilliantly balanced and nuanced and the characters, there’s so much detail in every single character in those scripts.”
She continued: “It’s really magical. … It’s bittersweet, but I think we’re sending it off in style.”
Continue scrolling to learn everything we know about season three and final. Derry Girls — including whether or not James and Erin will finally realize their feelings for one another:
