Derry Girls Tuesday and Wednesday, Channel 4
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Sarah Vine says that Derry Girls went out with a rollercoaster of highs and lows.

L-R: Orla (Louise Harland), Clare (Nicola Coughlan), Erin (Saoirse-Monica Jackson), James (Dylan Llewellyn) and Michelle (Jamie-Lee O'Donnell)

It just has - had - bags of charm, despite the often distinctly un-charming behaviour - and language - of its characters. 


We could watch Grand Designs and guess how much money they've lost 


Tess to Marcus in The Other One, Friday, BBC1 


And you end up feeling so much affection for those characters, even the most annoying ones, such as Colm, who could bore the pants off a nun, or the least appealing, Sister Michael (now revealed to be Sister George Michael), thunderous head of Our Lady Immaculate College.
In case you haven't seen it, a quick re-cap: Erin, Orla, Clare, Michelle and honorary girl James are five teenagers growing up in mid-90s Derry.

They're melodramatic and wild and very stupid (as all teenagers are). 
And they have quite a few challenges to overcome, hamstrung by a cast of more-or-less flawed adults and, of course, the volatile political situation. It's essentially a coming-of-age comedy, only set against the distinctly unfunny backdrop of the Troubles. 





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A tricky one on paper, perhaps, but in the hands of the cast, comedy gold. And it's partly that tension that gives the show its edge, that sense that surrounded by so much death the only thing to do is live life to the full. 
It's an ‘if-you-don't-laugh-you'll-justend-up-crying' situation. Hair disasters, make-up, pop concerts - all these things matter no less, despite the constant threat of violence.

In fact, if anything, they matter more.










Natasha Lyonne (pictured) in Netflix's Russian Doll.

Sarah says that it's strangely compelling and says it's great if you enjoy dark, twisted comedy

It's been a bit of a fallow week TV-wise, so I asked my daughter, who's 19, for a recommendation. She chose Russian Doll (Netflix), starring Natasha Lyonne and Chloe Sevigny. 
The first series came out in 2019; the second premiered this April.
It's one of the strangest concepts: Lyonne plays a time-travelling, chain-smoking party girl of Jewish extraction. 
But it's also strangely compelling, or at least I found it so. If you enjoy dark, twisted comedy and love a good soundtrack, then this could be your lost weekend. 





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