derry_girls nr this show took awhile to get into, but now i have nothing but admiration for it. it was surprising to me that the creator initially was going to set a show in northern ireland, where she grew up, without The Troubles in the background, since it's such a prominent (yet background) feature of the show. she'd been having a conversation about the show pre-creation with a producer, expressing her doubts about including that aspect, saying something like "you know how it was, you'd just get off the city bus and there would be a soldier standing there." the producer said "no, i don't know what that's like." the series finale focused on the lead-up to the vote on the Good Friday agreement. the show had always been mostly focused on the lives of the teenagers and their families, and it still did in this episode as much as it could, with its typical humour, but also tied things up following everyone's path while they made decisions that would change history. i can't really imagine what it would have been like for the northern irish to have the agreement pass and have decades of conflict finally resolved. but this episode helped me to. it was brilliantly done and made me cry. 221017 what's it to you? who go blather from