Writing about these scenes in retrospect, I’m a little bit dazzled at how sprightly they are. Sure, it’s a little indulgent to include a scene featuring Orla surrounded by a phalanx of tiny step dancers dancing to Dario G’s hopeful, elegiac “ Sunchyme,” but it’s also one of the most memorable moments of the entire episode. The efficiency of the expository bits provides plenty of time to transform Orla’s civic-responsibility adventure into a dreamy, fun, and moving dance sequence. That’s a good approach to a complex text because she’ll surely need to rely on the official voter’s guide to the Good Friday Agreement for an explanation of what it all means and to decide how to vote in the upcoming referendum to ratify the historic agreement. Michelle seems to be working at Dennis’s shop, Clare has moved about 20 minutes down the road to Strabane and is attending a new school, and Erin is struggling a bit with getting into and understanding Hamlet until she (wisely) picks up a simplified guide to Shakespeare. James is editing his documentary short, and considering how many close-ups of Erin he’s including, we can safely assume he’s still holding that torch aloft. Orla, having just turned 18, lightheartedly dances her way through town to City Hall to register to vote. The opening montage is a recap of moments and visuals going all the way back to the pilot - the sign announcing our entrance to Free Derry, the flaming shots, Granda Joe’s small shoulder squeeze of concern for Gerry, everyone racing for the train to Portrush, “Rock the Boat,” Sean’s funeral procession - segueing neatly into character-specific summaries of where everyone is one year later. This finale reminds us of everything we love about Derry Girls - the humor, exasperation, and love, all shot through with the weight of both national and personal history - while gently shutting the door on the last guests to leave. It’s a graduation day - especially fitting for a teen comedy.įortunately, Lisa McGee is up to these many overlapping tasks.
In addition, it needs to maintain the same overall tone of the series as a whole while showing us how the characters have grown and changed (or not!) over the course of previous seasons. Grab your tissues and get ready to laugh till you cry and cry till you laugh again just one more time.Ī series finale always has a lot of work to do, what with wrapping up various plotlines and giving viewers a sense of where our characters are headed after the final credits roll. You know when a party is winding down and everyone knows they need to go home but you all wind up staying another hour because you don’t want to break the spell of a perfect evening? Welcome to the defining mood of the Derry Girls series finale.
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