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  1. 1How to Get to Heaven from Belfast (2026)How to Get to Heaven from Belfast (2026) 7.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired 12 Feb 2026Three old friends attend a former classmate's wake and discover that their shared history has become part of a much stranger mystery. Lisa McGee's 2026 comedy-thriller carries familiar rapid exchanges into an adult friendship whose members have developed very different lives. It is the closest…0
  2. 2Moone Boy (2012)Moone Boy (2012) 8.1/10 on IMDbFirst aired 14 Sept 2012A boy's imaginary friend is useful company when his Irish family's priorities seem to operate by rules he cannot control. Chris O'Dowd's comedy makes the household's arguments and a child's grand interpretation of a small event equally important. The late-1980s setting gives it an affectionate…0
  3. 3The Young Offenders (2018)The Young Offenders (2018) 8.0/10 on IMDbFirst aired 9 Feb 2018Conor and Jock's schemes in Cork usually make sense to them for just long enough to become somebody else's problem. The 2018 television series gives their friendship a sustaining warmth while the adults have to live with its consequences. It is a natural route from Derry Girls' lovingly exasperated…0
  4. 4London Irish (2013)London Irish (2013) 7.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired 24 Sept 2013Four Northern Irish friends in London keep interpreting events through a shared set of assumptions that outsiders do not necessarily recognise. Lisa McGee's six-episode 2013 comedy supplies an adult version of the gang's mutually reinforcing bad judgement. It is much boozier and less tender than…0
  5. 5We Are Lady Parts (2021)We Are Lady Parts (2021) 8.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired 20 May 2021An anxious guitarist joins a Muslim women's punk band whose members have no intention of fitting one reassuring account of who they are. Nida Manzoor makes different personalities audible in the arguments as well as the songs. The connection to Derry Girls is a group that can be gloriously…0
  6. 6Big Boys (2022)Big Boys (2022) 8.4/10 on IMDbFirst aired 26 May 2022A young man arriving at university after a bereavement finds an unlikely friendship that changes the shape of his new life. Jack Rooke's comedy understands the difficulty of becoming independent while still needing a family, including one you partly assemble yourself. Its completed three-series run…0
  7. 7Chewing Gum (2015)Chewing Gum (2015) 7.7/10 on IMDbFirst aired 6 Oct 2015Tracey is twenty-four and determined to catch up on experiences her religious upbringing has made both irresistible and difficult to understand. Michaela Coel gives her London estate a close network of people with competing ideas about what she should do next. It is a much more sexually explicit…0
  8. 8Reservation Dogs (2021)Reservation Dogs (2021) 8.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired 9 Aug 2021Four Indigenous teenagers in Oklahoma make plans to leave while the people around them keep changing what home means. The three-season series gives its community jokes, difficult histories and adults with lives beyond supervising the young cast. It is an especially strong route from Derry Girls'…0
  9. 9Los Espookys (2019)Los Espookys (2019) 7.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired 14 Jun 2019A group of friends turn their love of horror effects into a business supplying fabricated scares. Their mostly Spanish-language world treats a peculiar request or supernatural interruption with wonderfully ordinary practical concern. The connection is the ensemble's shared comic logic: an absurd…0
  10. 10Girls from Ipanema (2019)Girls from Ipanema (2019) 7.8/10 on IMDbFirst aired 22 Mar 2019Women in late-1950s Rio form alliances around music, work and lives that other people would prefer to arrange for them. The Portuguese-language drama shares Derry Girls' interest in a place becoming visible through a group's apparently private ambitions, with race and class shaping who can take a…0