#does joe watch derry girls?

[joealwyndaily]

Nicola posted a pic with Joe and Phoebe!

#anonymous #thanks! #nicola coughlan #phoebe bridgers #social media #does joe watch derry girls? #photo #hollywood rising party

[drinkcrywrite]

DERRY GIRLS APPRECIATION WEEK

↳Day 5/7: Favourite Scenes/Moments

ID under cut

[image description: 10 large gifs made up of five smaller gifs from various episodes of Derry Girls. Gif 1: From 201, 5 gifs from the failed rappelling event. In the top left corner is "#10" in a black outline.   1: Clare clutches the side of the cliff, and hysterically screams at the crowd below. Caption reads, "Don't let the Jaffa bastard hurt me!"   2: Erin and Michelle stare up at Clare off-screen and look shocked, Michelle laughing. Caption reads, "Jesus, Clare! Fuck-a-doodle-doo."   3: Clare looks up at Philip at the top of the cliff. Caption reads, "Last night you said you hated Catholics. Admit it!"   4: Philip at the top of the cliff yells down to Clare. Caption reads, "I said I hated athletes. I'm not much of a sports fan."   5: Erin and Michelle stare up at Clare. Michelle cups her hand around her mouth and yells. Caption reads, "Catholics does sound a bit like athletes, to be fair to him, like." Gif 2: From 201, from the failed differences/similarities brainstorm. In the top right corner is "#09" in a black outline.   1: Philip raises his hand and calls out a suggestion as Clare smiles next to him. Caption reads, "Protestants are British and Catholics are Irish."   2: Jon calls out a suggestion as Orla sits next to him clutching her teddy bear. Caption reads, "Catholics really buzz off statues and we don't so much."   3: Sister Michael nods and smiles. Caption reads, "I do enjoy a good statue, it has to be said."   4: A shot from the back of the room as all the kids raise their hands and call out suggestions. Caption reads, "Catholics watch RTE! Protestants love cleaning! Protestants are taller!"   5: Jenny adds another item to the board titles differences, which is covered in writing. Gif 3: From 305, the discussion of Rob's sexuality. In the top right corner is "#08" in a black outline.   1: Joe excitedly gestures to the other parents off-screen. Caption reads, "He's a gay!"   2: Rob stands next to Joe and nods. Caption reads, "Oh, right. Yes, I'm a raging homosexual."   3: Sean & Geraldine look at Rob off-screen, Sean speaking. Caption reads, "Seriously? Our daughter's a gay."   4: Rob smiles at them. Caption reads, "How is she finding it?"   5: Sean nods while Geraldine answers. Caption reads, "Aye, she's not fully qualified, so to speak." Gif 4: From 204, when Michelle brings out the drug scones. In the top right corner is "#07" in a black outline.   1: Orla smiles and nods. Caption reads, "Aye, they do look like good craic, in fairness."   2: Clare gasps and points hysterically at the scones. Caption reads, "They're drug scones! She put the drugs in the scones!"   3: Michelle rolls her eyes and speaks condescendinly. Caption reads, "Anyways, drugs aren't illegal when you put them in food."   4: An older woman enters the room and takes the container of scones out of James' hands.   5: Michelle puts her hands to head and looks panicked. "Caption reads, "What the fuck just happened?" Gif 5: From 105, when Deidre asks Mary to take Michelle and James with her. In the top left corner is "#06" in a black outline.   1: Deidre looks angrily at Mary off-screen. Caption reads, "I hope to God it's not the gay thing you're offended by."   2: Deidre continues speaking. Caption reads, "Because I'd be disappointed in you, Mary, I'll not lie."   3: Mary looks contrite as she responds to Deidre. "Of course not. I mean if anything, the gay thing sort of cancels out the English thing."   4: James looks fed up. Caption reads, "Again, no gay thing."   5: Michelle grins as she looks at James beside her. Caption reads, "You wouldn't move over there, James? I can't see past your massive closet." Gif 6: From 306, when Clare receives her first kiss. In the top right corner is "#05" in a black outline.   1: Clare looks around the party at all the people dressed as clowns and screams. Caption reads, "Nooooo!"   2: Clare looks annoyed at James off-screen. Caption reads, "Not hundreds of lesbians, James, hundreds of clowns."   3: Laurie, with her clown mask on top of her head, speaks to Clare off-screen. Caption reads, "Well, that's a pity cause I was sorta plannin' on kissing you tonight."   4: Laurie kisses Clare with a hand on each cheek and slowly pulls back, Clare keeping her eyes shut.   5: Clare giddily smiles at the others outside the party and nods that Laurie did in fact kiss her. Gif 7: From 206, when James comes back aftre almost leaving with his mother. In the top left corner is "#04" in a black outline.   1: James sits in the car looking pensively out the window.   2: Clare, Michelle, and Erin stand in the crowd looking upset as everyone cheers behind them.   3: James yells down to the girls from the bridge overlooking the crowd. Caption reads, "I. Am. A Derry Girl!"   4: James and the girls run to each other, Orla jumping into his arms and Michelle wrapping her arms around him.   5: The kids all walk away from the crowd smiling, their arms around each other's shoulders, James with the fake USA flag around his shoulders. Gif 8: From 307, when Erin and Granda Joe talk about the Good Friday Agreement. In the top right corner is "#03" in a black outline.   1: Granda hold Anna on his knee and smiles as he speaks to Erin. Caption reads, "It's what you think that's important."   2: Erin looks sadly at Granda off-screen. Caption reads, "People died. Innocent people died, Granda.   3: Erin continues talking. Caption reads, "Nothing can ever make that okay."   4: Erin looks worried. Caption reads, "What if we vote yes, and it doesn't even work?"   5: Granda smiles at Erin. Caption reads, "And what if it does? What if no one else has to die?" Gif 9: From 106, when everyone joins Orla onstage at the talent show. In the top left corner is "#02" in a black outline."   1: Clare stands and looks slightly nervous as she shouts. Caption reads, "Actually, she's our dick."   2 Michelle looks exasperated as she stands to join them going onstage. Caption reads, "Oh, for fuck's sake."   3: All the kids join Orla onstage and start dancing along with her.   4: Sister Michael watches the kids dancing onstage and her mouth twitches, as if she wants to maybe smile, in a rare show of emotions.   5: The kids jump onstage and put their arms around each other in slow-motion. Gif 10: From 101, when the kids are in detention. In the top right corner is "#01" in a black outline.   1: James clutches the wall in desperation. Caption reads, "Michelle, I can't hold it any longer."   2: Michlle mocks Clare as Clare sadly chews a sandwich. Captione reads, "But will you ever get yer self-respect back, Clare?"   3: Erin opens the window and starts to climb through it.   4 Orla holds the nun's head up and grins. Caption reads, "It's funny how she sleeps with her eyes wide open, isn't it?"   5: Michelle and Erin turn accusingly to James as he continues to pee in the trashcan.]

#derry girls #derrygirlsweek #derrygirlsedit #derrygirlsgifs #userbbelcher #chewieblog #dailytvfilmgifs #filmtv #cinematv #shinylightblue #rupzydaisy #*gifs #dgalledit

[episodeoftv]

Round 4 of 8

propaganda and summaries are under the cut (May include spoilers)

Derry Girls: 2.06 The President

As Christmas approaches, excitement in Derry is at fever pitch for President Bill Clinton's visit, while James gets a surprise and Granda Joe embarks on a mysterious plan of his own.

https://derry.fandom.com/wiki/The_President

Gravity Falls: 2.11 Not What He Seems

The twins wonder if they really know Grunkle Stan after he is taken into custody by the government agents.

this episode is everything. The title references one of the first ciphers you could find in the show: STAN IS NOT WHAT HE SEEMS. The end of episode one has Stan being super sketchy. You spend all of season one wondering when he’ll turn evil. And then he doesn’t. You’re pulled along. You learn to love him. And then he’s being MORE suspicious right in front of your face in season 2. NWHS premieres. The kids have to question if they trust Stan. YOU question if you trust Stan. Everything’s happening all at once and then the whole sequence at the end. Oh my god. Heart stopping. Dippers betrayed shouting, Soos’s desperate protection of the kids, Mabel! MABEL! Her trust, her belief, despite EVERHTHING. And then the end. Oh my god the end. The reveal that broke the fandom. Shattered everyone. NWHS is the best piece of TV I’ve ever seen.

the next episode didn't come out for two months and the fandom was frothing at the mouth waiting for it.

The drama. The mystery. We've known forever that Stan was hiding something. We get a payoff to the portal. We find out who The Author Of The Journal is and It's His Fucking Twin. That one scene where gravity turns off and he escapes the cops (feds?). Mabel saying Grunkle Stan, I Trust You. Most iconic and badass episode of the show.

It is just incredible. The biggest reveal of the series happens at the end (this description will contain spoilers but I'm staying vague as possible until the end where it will spoil the reveal to give people time to stop reading this). The amount of suspense and emotional tension that builds and builds over the episode is just incredible. Even after seeing it dozens of times I am on the edge of my seat watching it. The way Dipper and Mabel find out pieces of the puzzle, both things the audience has seen and been speculating on, and new things. The way their first theory about Stan is presented and then show the painting of him smiling CHILLS. And the scene in the basement where Stan finally gets there and he and Dipper have such an emotional fight about all the secrets. And then Mabel caught in the middle and how she is distressed but ultimately trusts Stan. Oh the shot of her letting go is so iconic. And then of course the big author reveal moment is the most amazing thing ever. Ok here is the SPOILER WARNING FOR THE BEST TWIST IN THE SHOW The way Ford's silhouette is seen coming out of the portal then the six fingered hand over the journal and then his face is revealed while Stan says The author of the Journals... my brother. Just top tier scene in every way. I don't think any episode in any other show has ever done to me what this episode does to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_What_He_Seems

#derry girls #gravity falls #poll #polls #round4

[purpleplaid17]

Jess Watches // Tues 27 Feb // Day 155 Synopses & Favourite Scenes & Poll

Constellation (with friend B) 1x03 Somewhere in Space Hangs My Heart

A disaster on board the International Space Station becomes a fight for survival.

Quantum entanglement is the phenomenon that occurs when a duet of particles are generated, interact, or share spatial proximity in such a way that the quantum state of each particle of the group cannot be described independently of the state of the others, including when the particles are separated by a large distance.

So there's two of everybody? Jo, her daughter (played by twin actors I noticed in the credits), Henry/Bud, and Irene. Did the CAL cause this? What does it all mean??

Severance (rw with mum) 1x03 In Perpetuity

Mark takes the team on a field trip, but Helly continues to rebel. A deteriorating Petey struggles to tell Mark about Lumon's misdeeds.

What is the "Elevator Allergy" song? I would like to hear it. I'm imagining something like the Barenaked Ladies song.

Do you remember doing the Egg Drop Challenge? We were in Year 9 (14 y/o). We had straws, string, and bin liners. I don't think many survived the fall from the gym balcony.

Is there a viewer bingo for watching the show? Someone should make one before s2 starts.

Derry Girls (rw with mum) 2x06 The President (s2 Finale)

As Christmas approaches, excitement in Derry is at fever pitch for President Bill Clinton's visit, while James gets a surprise and Granda Joe embarks on a mysterious plan of his own.

Michelle: You're a Derry Girl now, James. James: Piss off. Michelle: I'm serious. It doesn't matter that you've got that stupid accent, or that your bits are different to my bits, but because being a Derry Girl, well, it's a fucking state of mind. And you're one of us. James, later: I am a Derry Girl!

#constellation #severance #derry girls #polls #tumblr polls #jess watches #day 155

[areseebee]

🔥 The Reunion

(I’ll throw in one of my own- personally I rlly enjoyed seeing what the moms were like as teens, but randomly giving Deirdre a never-before-mentioned male foreign cousin just for the sake of having a “James” in the group seemed a bit forced + unnecessary. I think it would’ve been a much more interesting + natural story if Gerry or Kathy had been in the flashback instead.)

oh i love hearing your thoughts on it too, anon! i have mostly just some raggedy, not at all concise, way too long thoughts about the reunion so i put them below a cut.

at the time it aired, i didn't love where it fell in the course of the season, but that's mostly because it felt like time was running out; it makes sense to me now that it falls where it does because it helps to break that momentum and refocus the show after the james/erin kiss. overall, season 3 had a lot more of the older generation which was always, always lovely and really helped to situate the show more fully in the contemporary political moment and history of northern ireland, but i found myself toward the end feeling like i, as a viewer, hadn't had enough time with the girls themselves; honestly, i still feel like that about season 3. but i think this all lines up with something lisa mcgee said in an interview: that she started out derry girls feeling like one of the girls and ended it feeling like one of the mammies. i see this reflected a lot in season 3. to me, there are about as many good things about it as there are things i didn't like about it. at this point i guess i feel pretty neutral; i wonder (and even long for) what could have been for so many things and think that some of the shifts in tone and writing and editing and direction and even acting weren't always in service of the best product, but i also so highly value what we did get. i wouldn't be here if i didn't.

did i cry at the end of the reunion? is one of my favorite scenes in season 3 the dancing montage which moves between the mammies' teen and adult selves? did i immediately want to go watch it all over again with my mom? a resounding yes to all three.

i hear you on deidre's never-before-mentioned foreign cousin! my only caveat - and it's a big one - is that he gave us the warmest, sweetest, most enthusiastic conversation with clare's parents about how she's not yet a "fully qualified" gay. to me, this overcomes all clunkiness in including the character. he serves a good purpose even though his inclusion is not in overall service to the story being told.

i would have loved to see kathy included and wonder why she wasn't. maybe she was too young to attend? if james and michelle are born around the same time, and deidre has to have niall first, then kathy could have been way too young to attend. gerry, similarly, would have been a delight, though it does seem from small crumbs throughout the entirety of the show that mary and gerry met after mary graduates. joe refers to him as a "slack southern shite" which makes it seem to me like he's not from derry originally. tommy tiernan's accent doesn't seem like it's trying to be especially derry-ish to me either? but i might be totally off on that one or reading way too much into all of it.

#this is a rambling one folks #ask #derry girls

[probablydaydreaming]

i can't describe the feeling i get when watching derry girls and whilst im so sad its over, i though the ending was just so beautiful and hopeful and bittersweet, i loved it. they handled such a difficult point in history so well. i'm from england but my mums from dublin and even though she's from southern ireland, so many of the characters remind her of people she knows (especially uncle colm and sister michael lol). Watching derry girls always makes me miss ireland and irish people and my irish family so much, i miss the warmth and the humour. Watching it makes me so grateful for my mum and irish side of the family, I don't think i've ever watched something that's truly felt familiar to me in the way that derry girls does. I don't think there's ever been a show i've missed like i know im going to miss this. The humourous and heartfelt/emotional moments in this show were handled so well and in a way only the irish are capable of lol. im so sad to say goodbye to all these characters but im so satisfied with the ending. That last shot of all the girls and james leaving the polling station, with grandpa joe and anna following behind them (in fact the whole polling station scene tbh) with dreams playing over the top was just fucking perfect and such a good testament to the rest of the show.

#derry girls #erin quinn #michelle mallon #orla mccool #james maguire #claire devlin #mary quinn #sarah mccool #grandpa joe #gerry quinn #sister michael #and all the rest #spoilers #?? #dont know if the shit ive spewed counts as spoilers

[higheldertala]

ascension of the cybermen salt commentary

yes i do watch this episode waiting for the master to show up at the 48th minute of a 49 minute episode, why do you ask? 😅

these ireland scenes were such bait lmao, what exactly do they add? take them out and they don’t change the plot. and putting them here when it has nothing to do with cybermen plotline is so weird.

after 9 consecutive episodes we’re finally off earth yay!! 🎉🎉🎉

extremely confused how in order to stop ashad and the cybermen, the doctor travels to after the cyberwars have finished??? when the billions of lives have already been lost??? how is this cleaning up the mess you made doctor??? surely you would travel to before the wars have started? nah this makes no sense someone explain this to me.

also like with ranskoor again it’s literally avoids showing the war/ battle happening on screen, jfc ch*bnall is such a boring writer.

‘two cyber shuttles just landing’ you can literally see that with your eyes why did you need the sonic to tell you that?

‘don’t need your life story’ i mean you literally just asked doctor. why is she so hostile to people? like what favours does this do for the character? i hate when the doctor’s a complete arsehole. and yes i mean that across all incarnations.

god the fucking expositions dumps the fam do for each of the weapons. please write a second draft ch*bnall im begging you.

funny how the doctor is usually all like don’t even think about picking up a gun, and now she’s like ‘wow why the fuck don’t you have guns you fucking idiots’ to these survivors.

‘all humanity have been erased, all life will fall and the cybermen will rise again’ don’t you need humans to convert into cyberman? (okay so i remember that nightmare in silver changes this, also ashad’s plan is to remove organic components from cybermen completely so ignore this comment).

‘me and you together, no one else stands a chance’ sure yaz whatever you say.

can we do without the lense flares for like one episode or something.

i saw a tweet saying ko sharmus is grandda joe from derry girls so that’s all i can think about now.

‘you’ve come a long way graham o’brien’ wow don’t you just love being told our charceters have gone through character development instead of being shown it?

‘wait is this a cyber ship?’ what did you think it was yaz? the dead cybermen floating outside was a pretty big giveaway.

‘what are our other options?’ oh wow yaz is quite happy to bring the thousands of cybermen to the boundary threatening humanity’s refuge and endangering countless refugee’s lives… okay.

is it ever explained what ashad is doing to the warrior cybermen? (we’ll see is this is explained in next part).

okay so either the boundary is personally affected by the person crossing it or this is biggest contrivance of the era.

also how did the master know about the boundary? did he know about it in advance and if so how? also was he just waiting there for it appear or…? very confused with that one.

and once again ch*bnall’s only cliffhanger to a two parter is to reveal the master. i can’t believe he does this twice in one season, can we get some originality please?

concluding thoughts: master sexy

okay serious now, not a lot happens this episode, the main plot is just moving from location a to location b, and it’s just an elaborate 50 minute setup just to get to gallifrey. still don’t understand how the doctor intend to clean her mess by coming to the end of the cyberwars seems counter productive to me. i guess yaz and graham contribute somewhat in their subplot but uh ryan doesn’t do anything this episode.

#series 12 salt rewatch #this one is quite short not because it’s good but because it’s quite boring #dw commentary

[izzielizzie]

Hi Izzie, question bc I know you watch Derry Girls: why do you think that Orla’s hates shouting? She was holding her moms hand when Mary was yelling in the last episode and she consistently covers her ears whenever there’s shouting, like the camera pans to her and everything. Do you think that could do with her dad, and maybe he wasn’t very kind which might also be why Joe is always annoyed with Gerry? So Mary doesn’t suffer too?

hi!! i do indeed watch derry girls

okay that's actually a super interesting question and i feel like the implication here is that she's had very bad experiences with shouting. as for the dad thing: i did a quick search to make sure he hadn't been mentioned before and i found this tweet from 2019 that basically has the same theory as you do anon.

i think that it is highly plausible that orla has a fear of shouting because of an unkind father. i did a rewatch recently and i noticed that when james shouted she covered her ears, and when mary shouted she went to her mother for comfort and looked like she was going to cry. also, she started to cry when she felt that she had made james's drawing incorrectly. but she didn't react when the protestants were yelling in the first episode of the second season, and she didn't react when they were in the car surrounded by the orange order. every time she's had an adverse reaction, it's when someone who she is close to, someone who is important to her, is upset. and one reason for this could be that she used to be scared of upsetting her father since he would start yelling.

this could also be why she looks to joe for reassurance, she supports him without question (like when she said someone could give the polar bear a lift to agree with her grandfather even though she wanted to see take that just as much as anyone else), and why she always seems to choose him first. because he's the only father figure she has.

plus, every adult treats her with much more kindness than they do with the other girls. gerry calls her "love", joe lets her sleep on his shoulder/always supports her, mary is kinder to her than she to erin/doesn't blame orla for things, and sarah has never been angry at her and she does whatever she can to make her daughter happy (possibly why orla's always eating candy and her mom still does her hair?)

sarah having an abusive husband also explains a lot of the family dynamics. sarah clearly has her own house (possibly the townhouse next to mary?) since she mentioned orla "almost going through the roof" or something along those lines, but she probably feels more comfortable surrounded by other people since abusers aren't usually abusive around other people, like the victim's family, so being around others is what she associates safety with. also, joe is always adamantly opposed to gerry which -- to the viewers -- makes no sense because gerry is a model husband. but the show has this way of dropping us in the middle of stories with no background. joe has to have a reason why he calls gerry a "southern shite" and warns mary about how small things (like gerry not wanting to bring the big clock on vacation) can lead to abuse. because he could have seen it happen in real time with sarah. also, along with the troubles, which is obviously a big reason to not like foreigners, sarah's husband could have been from somewhere other than derry, which joe considers to be one one the reasons why foreign husbands should not be trusted.

also sarah is clearly younger than mary. but her daughter is the same age as erin. it's likely that sarah married young or was pregnant young and then subsequently had to get married. and i know it's also just a catholic mom thing (because i have a catholic mom), but mary's warning to erin and the others not to get pregnant could do with the way she's seen sarah suffer.

this is kind of small, but when erin/mary/gerry/literally everyone was yelling about mary's supposed affair, gabriel's daughter covered her ears in the same way that orla does, and the camera made it a point to pan towards her. we know that gabriel just got divorced, and it's likely that the daughter dealt with her parents' yelling constantly, and has grown to fear it like orla has.

and, from the same episode, orla claims that she never trusted mary after they discover the "affair", which is shocking considering orla's love for her aunt. the comment might be caused by the fact that maybe her father cheated on sarah, which pulled her family apart, and orla can't deal with it happening again, so she instantly dislikes mary so she doesn't feel the grief again.

it's equally as plausible that orla's dad was/is a lovely person, but there's a lot to unpack in the family dynamics/the way orla acts that suggests that he was not a good person.

#abuse tw #derry girls #derry girls spoilers #mary quinn #gerry quinn #erin quinn #james maguire #orla mccool #sarah mccool #joe mccool

[orllamccool]

my derry girls s3e1 thoughts

here are my thoughts on the episode and my updated bingo card! i hope to post my thoughts here every time a new episode premieres! obvious spoiler warning for derry girls season 3!

to start off, if anyone is looking to watch the episode i used a VPN and used the all4 website, as i live in the US and can’t access channel 4 content from my region. this is probably the best way to support the show and safest method of streaming right now until the series is available on netflix or another platform.

some initial observations - orla is fucking incredible so far and is the highlight of this episode for me. granted, she is normally a highlight because i relate to her so heavily but she SHINES here. so glad they gave her more lines than usual! - the idea of the gang making a home movie is so adorable to me and i think they did a great job. shout out to that familiar-looking actor with the brown curly hair, i hope that orla recalls her name and we see her again. - clare’s exam anxiety is so relatable and i missed her so much - i love that james is still being teased and we get the michelle and james banter but it doesn’t feel as mean-spirited as before which was a worry for me since i didn’t want the ending of season two to be spoiled. they all seem much closer as a result and i love that.

one of my predictions was that erin gets a new dog, and while a pet was on the cards i surely didn’t expect that it would be joe who adopted a cat! seamus is so cute and funny and the way joe defends him is identical to the way i defend my own cat whenever she does something wrong. glad to see the joe and gerry banter again too, i missed all the grown ups.

i also predicted that the gang would try to replicate a heist movie after watching one which was sort of half-true! watching them fight over opening the school door was pretty classic and it’s one of my favorite tropes in movies/tv lol

i did NOT expect for there to be a storyline about hiding a corpse so that was certainly an unexpected gerry and joe bonding moment

COLM IS BACK AND HE WAS GREAT! i missed the man so much!

also, i am absolutely LOVING clare’s new love is love pin and i want one for myself.

so far it’s off to a fantastic start. love the characters, love the script, love the soundtrack. i have such high hopes for the rest of the season and can’t wait for next week’s episode!

here is my updated bingo card:

#derry girls #derry girls s3 #my s3e1 thoughts #harper shut yr mouth

[a-little-slice-of-fandom]

In derry girls, what did you think of the episode where clare came out? Im irish (republic) and gay so i love that it was included, but some of the language used makes me uncomfortable i guess? I get that NI in the 90s wasnt very accepting but the directors have said that they already portrayed it through rose coloured glasses so having michelle say d*ke feels unnecessary. I love the show though and can certainly look past it! I was just interested in what you thought :)))

Hey anon!

Personally I love this episode of Derry Girls! In fact it’s probably my favourite episodes. I already liked Clare as a character throughout the series, probably because I relate to her a bit too much, so to have her be revealed as gay was just like the icing on the cake. Good representation for northern Irish characters are few and far between, and gay northern Irish characters are basically non existent. Derry Girls was this hit TV show that provided many with the first chance to see themselves represented meaningfully on TV, and that includes myself.

However, I think there’s a lot of really important stuff in this episode that people either don’t notice or just don’t really talk about, which I do understand because Derry Girls is, at the end of the day, a comedy and it’s much more fun to quote characters like Aunt Sarah saying “you cannot move for lesbians these days” than to think about the darker side of Northern Ireland.

(T/W for homophobia discussion!!!)

(Also this sort of turned into a ramble about acceptance by the end of the post but I just have a lot of feelings on what Derry girls represents and I feel like non northern Irish viewers maybe don’t catch onto that because they don’t have the necessary context)

Derry Girls, as a show, is so interesting and personal to me because it manages to perfectly strike the balance between presenting Northern Ireland as a deeply flawed and divided country, but also presenting it as a place where people can be happy and live their lives to the fullest despite the ever present danger of the troubles. And that’s a genuinely refreshing portrayal of N.I that we usually don’t get. However I’d argue that if Derry Girls doesn’t at least try and illustrate, to some extent, the causal and very rampant homophobia of northern Ireland then it runs the risk of romanticising Northern Ireland at the time, which I think is incredibly dangerous. I do think that the show is intentionally more digestible and does filter things through rose tinted glasses, however I’d argue that simply glossing over the homophobia would have actually been a bit disrespectful to the queer history of Northern Ireland and could erase the experiences and struggles of the LGBTQ community in N.I, both then and now. If the show doesn’t acknowledge that things were shitty then we paint an inaccurate picture of what it was like, and arguably still is like, to be gay in Northern Ireland. And considering that Derry Girls is one of the very few good depictions of Northern Ireland, it’s incredibly important that it’s an honest depiction.

You specifically asked about Michelle, but I think it’s important to talk about Michelle and Erin in relation to one another, and how they are both products of their time and of a deeply homophobic society.

(Now I’m going to briefly discuss Michelle’s use of the d-slur here however I just want to acknowledge that I’m probably not the best person to talk about this since it’s a lesbian specific slur and I’m not a lesbian. I welcome any additions to this post!)

I think Michelle sort of represents the overt and “loud” homophobia that’s present in our society. Michelle saying the d-slur is far from the first homophobic thing she says. I mean It’s literally a running gag in series one that she calls James “gay” constantly. And the sad thing is that Michelle’s off handed comments throughout the series are incredibly realistic to what you’d hear in Northern Ireland even today. I remember the f-slur being chanted during break time at my primary school, without anyone fully understanding what that word meant. Michelle is a representation of the homophobia that’s deeply ingrained into N.I to the point where it’s not even thought about or even seen as an issue. I mean...no one ever really talks about Michelle’s comments. Now whether or not they had to include her saying a slur specifically to illustrate the homophobia of N.I is not for me to say. You could change that sentence in the script and I think the point of Michelle representing “loud” and homophobia would still stand.

On the other hand...I think Erin represents the much more insidious and “quiet” homophobia.

Firstly, she has no issue with capitalising off a very personal essay for her own gain, shrugs off any protests that this might be wrong and doesn’t consider how her actions may hurt the writer of this piece (who is later revealed to be Clare).

Even the language she uses is a bit uncomfortable, saying that “a real life lesbian walks among us”. Are lesbians wild animals or mythical creatures? That seems to be what Erin is implying here. Plus Erin tries to make it out to others such as Sister Michael that she’s doing this because she genuinely believes in equal rights and wishes to stick up for the LGBT community, but when Clare actually tries to come out Erin is clearly confused and she reacts very badly. I mean, Erin literally says she doesn’t want Clare to come out and demands she get back in the closet, and you can see how hurt Clare is by this reaction. And this scene is kind of played for laughs and I think that straight viewers probably found Erin’s reaction quite funny...but this scene hit way too close to home for me. It’s the classic “I have nothing against gay people, but I’d just rather I didn’t have a gay friend/child/co-worker because they make me uncomfortable” that’s way too common in Northern Ireland. It’s the idea that people can present themselves as liberal and open minded, but when finally confronted with something that doesn’t fit their narrative, their societal conditioning kicks in.

As a queer woman, it was never Michelle’s causal homophobia that made me uncomfortable, it was Erin’s reaction...because it hit way too close to home. It’s a perfect representation of the “quiet” homophobia that’s still a massive issue in Northern Ireland today.

(Also the context of when Derry Girls was released is super important! Series one of Derry Girls was released in 2018...but Gay marriage wasn’t actually legalised in Northern Ireland until January of 2020 and even then it was quite contested by conservatives. Now I’m not saying there’s social commentary here but that’s absolutely what I’m saying.)

Now I’m not saying that Michelle or Erin themselves are homophobic, nor am I saying that they’re bad people. I think that they are teenagers that have absorbed a lot of homophobic rhetoric due to the time and the society that they live in. Although Erin’s reaction to Clare trying to come out was painful to watch because it felt so real, I don’t think her reaction was malicious. Erin is a teenager who has grown up in a homophobic society and now doesn’t really know how to react to this new reality and probably didn’t realise how hurtful she was being to Clare. (This isn’t me trying to excuse her reaction, again I am part of the LGBT community and I’ve experienced that exact same reaction from people, it’s me trying to understand Erin’s reaction). Erin and Michelle have both absorbed rhetoric from their deeply homophobic society, and unfortunately this rhetoric continues.

Plus I just want to comment on this idea of acceptance and change in Derry Girls. Derry Girls is set in the time of great change in Northern Ireland, where people were sort of starting to accept that people are allowed to be British or Irish or both. But this process was messy and it wasn’t instantaneous. And the acceptance of the LGBTQ community in Northern Ireland was the exact same. It didn’t just happen overnight. It was a slow and messy process of change, of people re-evaluating their previous beliefs and being given the chance to grow as people and to learn how to accept others. That’s not to say people haven’t made mistakes in the past, because they have, but they’re willing to take the steps to change. I‘ve always thought the LGBTQ subplot of Derry Girls is sort of a parallel to the overall process of change in Northern Ireland in a political sense. And I think that flies over so many people’s heads because they don’t have that context of the political situation in N.I.

(And this theme of acceptance is seen again in the series finale of series 2 with James! ✨ Thematic consistency ✨ )

Because at the end of the day, Clare is accepted by the group. In fact, we see both the teenagers and the adults actively take steps to make her feel loved, welcome and accepted. My favourite moment will always be Granda Joe saying “you’re a very talented people” to Clare in the most earnest voice. Clare is still loved by her friends and although they don’t exactly know what they’re doing, they do try and show their support for her. They absolutely make mistakes, and they did hurt Clare, but they’re trying and I think that stands for a lot, especially at the time.

And I think all of what I discussed was absolutely necessary to Derry Girls. Derry Girls might be a somewhat rose tinted portrayal of Derry in the troubles, but it never tries to romanticise the situation that the teenagers were in (because no one should be romanticising the troubles). I think that this stance of portraying the harsh reality of homophobia in N.I is equally important to the narrative of Derry Girls. I see my own experiences in Clare, despite the fact it’s 30 years later, so if they didn’t at least attempt to show the homophobia in Ireland it would have felt disingenuous and too “perfect”. Again, I’m not saying that Michelle using the d slur was the right way to go about showing the “loud” homophobia of Northern Ireland. That’s not my decision to make. However, just because Derry Girls is making efforts to present Northern Ireland in a more digestible way to audiences (especially non northern Irish audiences) doesn’t mean they shouldn’t also acknowledge the reality of Northern Ireland at the time.

(This all kind of makes it sound like I want Clare to get hate crimed which I obviously do not want. I think the way that Derry Girls showed the issues in Northern Ireland were perfect and very much necessary, minus the use of the d-slur specifically which wasn’t necessary to the plot.)

Anyway thank you so much for the ask anon! This was much more rambly than my usual posts but I just really have a lot of opinions on Derry girls because it does mean a lot to me and it often does hit close to home.

#derry girls #michelle mallon #erin quinn #clare devlin #enya discusses: derry girls #long post

[growingtoanewself]

honestly derry girls has no business being this accurate of a show but still realistic about the northern ireland conflict. like they’re a group of crackhead honest to god loser and joe hates gerry and they’re technically catholic but not really belief wise but identity wise and they have a boring ass uncle who does not know how to hold a conversation who also got robbed by the ira and like the end of that one episode with the talent show and the car bomb? oh my god that HITS they honestly do so well at marrying average life with the actual horrific parts of the conflict. like when joe puts his hand on gerrys shoulder when they’re all watching the news? bruh.

#derry girls #tv #aka im irish and emo #like. it sounds stupid bc irish is white and white people get hella rep #but its so nice to see actual irish culture represented

[deep-sea-skiving]

My thoughts on Derry Girls while being trapped in my house.

While the country is in lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic I’ve finally had the time to re-watch some of my favourite shows, well at least one of my favourite shows. I’ll have to confess that this show is definitely my favourite show of all time even beating the likes of Killing Eve for the top spot. So, what is this show you’re probably wondering by now? Well it’s the British sitcom Derry Girls. As you can derive from the title this comedy is set in Derry, Northern Ireland in the 1990s during The Troubles. First off, the bat this show has taught me more about The Troubles than the whole English education system has during its whole 13-year reign so, take that as you will. I feel the best thing that this show does is its portrayal of normality during a time which is filled with conflict, discord and confusion. Even the escaped polar bear scenario seems almost believable, which I believe is in reference to the peter the polar bear incident of the 70s. A polar bear which while dead was also on the loose in Belfast. Moreover, the characters are majorly relatable and ordinary. The main group of the girls and the wee English fella represent typical teenagers. They are a group which are neither popular nor unpopular, they’re the group in the middle of the social ladder. I think this resonates with many individuals, who are just in the murkiness of school popularity pyramid. Though the group acts like they are one up than the studious, stereotypical school prefect, Jenny Joyce in reality status wise they are no better. I think this is a unique part of the show, most comedies tend to portray their characters largely as complete ‘losers’.

As mentioned earlier, one aspect this show does so well is the relatability of the characters. Yes, this is set in Derry in the 90s during The Troubles, but the familiarity of the characters stretches way past these differences. We all know a Jenny Joyce that we want to just want to remove from our lives and we all can apply the Derry girls’ personalities to our own. Most will relate Michelle’s care-less, think later attitude, Orla’s imagination and creativity, Erin’s slight vanity and narcissism, James’ desire and struggle to fit in while still trying maintain his sense of self-identity and finally Clare which in my opinion is the most relatable of the group, an over-thinker, anxiety driven ‘wee lesbian’ with the most pragmatic and sensible attitude. No character in the show seems unnecessary or lacking. The grown-ups are just as hilarious as the girls, you can absolutely see where the girls get their personality traits from, just look at aunt Sarah and Orla! Minor characters such as Uncle Colm, Father Peter and Jim across the road with double glazing feel fleshed out and not just characters thrown into the story for the sake of a joke or the overarching plot. They seem like real people that you actually would know.

Another thing I’ll like to mention which I think is absolutely fantastic about the show is the set and costume design. "According to my ma, we're actually quite poor" We can actually see this, the sets of the terrace houses truthfully portray the standard of living at that time. The Derry girls wear the same outfits on multiple occasions. This emphasises a realistic portrayal of everyday life during this time. Got to mention that the outfits are peak 90s fashion which I’m still trying to replicate! Everything about this show is just so memorable and distinct to this show and would almost definitely not work in any other comedy show. The quotability of the show is astounding. Some of my favourites include “But he’s not in the zoo anymore is he, simple Simon” (Joe), “Protestants hate ABBA” (Orla) and "I'm not being an individual on my own" (Clare) just to mention a few. Some final thoughts, I love Derry Girls, it balances perfectly good actually funny comedy with serious issues that highlights the many difficulties young people at the time had to deal with growing up in Derry during the 1990s. It emphasises a sense of community (e.g. the school uniform washing incident), friendship and acceptance during a time remembered for conflict and hatred. I absolutely can’t wait for season 3!!

Speaking of COVID-19 here’s a video that some of the Derry girls cast filmed about isolation. It’s absolutely hilarious.  https://youtu.be/aSJPNvVhH8Y

#derry girls #1990svintage #1990s aesthetic #1990s style #1990s #1990s music #1990s tv #erin quinn #orla mccool #sister michael #clare devlin #james maguire #michelle mallon #90s fashion #vintage 90s #90s nostalgia #90s #90s aesthetic #90s look #tv #tv shows #ireland #filmtv #netflix #1990s nostalgia #northern ireland #northern irish #the troubles

[sometimesmyblog]

I’m so mad that I’ve fallen in love with Derry Girls only to find out that after season 3 the show is supposed to end but all good things...

The show’s 90s wardrobe is great, I hope a fashion channel on YouTube does a video on the show’s accuracy. If someone already has please link me their channel.

The plantonic relationships/love amongst the girls is great and when I say girls that includes James because he is a Derry Girl. If a long term romance is inevitable I hope they have the Derry Girls find their romances outside of their group like they have been.

The dynamic with their families is great too. We seldom see Michelle or Clare’s parents but from the interactions amongst all the parents with their kids when they’re called into school is great. The writing/acting is so top notch w/ conveying their relationships with their parents/ their home lives and it’s all relayed to us with just brief exchanges.

Sister Michael and Grandpa Joe are my favorite adult characters in the show. The whole time I was watching the show I was like “dang why does Grandpa Joe look so familiar?” Turns out his actor’s played Ser Barristan Selmy From GoT.

A lot of comedies mix in drama or heartfelt moments and Derry Girls is not exception. The heartfelt moments are always brief. Just brief enough to let the viewer take a breath from all the hijinx and it’s not sappy either. I think the sappiest it has ever gotten was with Erin writing on the chalkboard at the end of season 2 episode 1. These moments also give some insight into Ireland during that time, not enough to change the tone but enough to pique people’s interest. It’s definitely got mine.

Damn. I really need to work on my grammar.

Anyway, I love Derry Girls and I’m geeking out over it so I’ll be flooding my blog with it henceforth.

#personal #derry girls

[aion-rsa]

Doctor Who: Why Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor Needs an ‘Everybody Lives!’ Moment

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Doctor Who! The children’s own show that adults adore.

Doctor Who, as a format, requires an intrinsic joyfulness in its stories to be so adored. If adventures become too continually grim, or not sufficiently fun, then ultimately there’ll be a tipping point where it becomes implausible for the story to continue. Why, ultimately, would the character keep travelling if they weren’t enjoying it? And even if they did, would this be something that would sustain a family audience?

It’s not that you can’t have darkness in Doctor Who, it’s just that it can’t be sustained and eventually something has to give. As such, there’s an inherent optimism in a lot of Doctor Who, even in episodes where it isn’t high in the mix. For the show to make sense, there has to be some hope that wrongs can be righted.

For example: even though William Hartnell’s Doctor starts off trying break his own programme by getting rid of Ian and Barbara as quickly as possible, the show quickly settles into “a great spirit of adventure”; the Second Doctor comforting a grieving Victoria by pointing out that “nobody else in the universe can do what we’re doing” followed by the Doctor letting Victoria leave the TARDIS because it’s the best thing for her. In both cases, the gesture is one of compassion. The Fourth Doctor refers to Sarah Jane Smith as his best friend and she only leaves because he has to go somewhere she can’t (His home planet of Gallifrey, something that on original broadcast had more dramatic weight as he’d only visited it once before in the series and then been forced into regeneration and exile).

When Russell T. Davies relaunched the show in 2005, the unspoken idea became explicit. “Can I just say: travelling with you…I love it,” says Rose Tyler, who – despite portentous trailer statements – survived her travels. In episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures Russell T. Davies expanded on the Tenth Doctor’s victory lap in ‘The End of Time‘ to make it more celebratory, giving past companions happy endings (some in stark contrast to their grim fates in Nineties’ spin-off media). The departures of Rose and Donna are tragic, but the journeys to get there are framed in terms of joy and excitement.

The next showrunner, Steven Moffat, preferred happy endings. Companions had previously been married off (Susan, Vicki, Jo, Leela, Peri) as they left the show. Amy Pond got married and stayed, travelling with her husband. This was a leap forward, but unfortunately the following series’ pregnancy storyline was handled poorly and attempts to deal with its repercussions were not successful either. Clara, the next companion, dared to be like the Doctor but unlike Donna managed to both die and have a happy ending.

Moffat enjoyed Immortal LGBT+ Women Having Adventures in Space so much that he used it again for Bill Potts in Series 10. An important aspect of both characters’ storylines is that they suffer a terrible fate, but the version of Doctor Who in which companions die is rejected in favour of one where they get what they live happily ever after. Moffat, a comedy writer to his core, was unwilling to make Doctor Who a story where travelling on the TARDIS left you in a worse place. Davies also tried to give his companions happy endings of sorts to ameliorate their loss.

If we look at the populist peaks of the show, Doctor Who has never been overwhelmingly cynical. Whenever it’s been taken in a darker direction it usually rejects that approach in favour of a lighter balance. In Season 21 the show put its characters through a series of almost unrelenting grimness (‘The Awakening’, the story where a demonic entity attempts to get an entire village to slaughter each other is the light and fluffy one) culminating in the Fifth Doctor’s heroic regeneration story ‘The Caves of Androzani’– voted the best Doctor Who story in several polls – where the Doctor goes to extreme lengths to save his companion and distances himself from the violence that surrounds him.

And then in the next story ‘The Twin Dilemma’, the Sixth Doctor strangles his companion.

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Taking ‘Grimdark’ storytelling to mean stories in which violence and misery is perpetuated throughout the story universe in a seemingly never-ending cycle, that period in the show’s history is a perfect example of it. Why diminish one of the finest stories ever by immediately negating the heroism involved? Why would you have the main character reject the violence that he’d become a part of only to immediately embrace it again? Among the many problems it means we have a Doctor/companion relationship that seems grim at best. Why would you keep travelling with someone who strangled you, refused to apologise and then continually harangues and shouts at you? I don’t watch Doctor Who to see the companion trapped in an abusive relationship. I also don’t think it’s a coincidence that the ratings went down as the production team systematically removed as much hope from the show as possible, ridding it of that great spirit of adventure. After ‘The Twin Dilemma’,the show was put on hiatus, and ultimately cancelled.   

Which brings me to the current version of the show.

I don’t think Jodie Whittaker is miscast or that the current version of the show is woke nonsense – which is a relief because I think using the phrase ‘woke nonsense’ unironically is quite the red flag. I think that the enthusiasm Jodie Whittaker has for the part hasn’t been used well, because we currently have a Doctor who is great at showing unabashed joy travelling the universe, but whose stories lean towards grimdark and don’t give her anything approaching ‘Everybody lives!’

One of the most lauded episodes in Series 11 is ‘Rosa’, which was co-written by Malorie Blackman and showrunner Chris Chibnall. In it, the TARDIS crew see Rosa Parks in the run-up to her being arrested for violating segregation laws, and need to stop Krasko – a mass murderer from the future – interfering in this event and stopping it from happening.

The inclusion of Krasko makes an interesting and depressing point in this story, and I’d be fascinated to know the villain’s development in the writing process. For what we have here is a story about an important act of defiance that changed human history, and is celebrated for its impact, alongside an acknowledgement that there will still be racists in the future. In fact, there will be racists who murder 2,000 people in the future. Racism and its associated violence is not, the episode says, going to go away.

In isolation this might seem like optimism tempered with caution, but since Chris Chibnall became showrunner, edgy, provocative ideas have crept in and given stories a cynical edge. Small moments have a cumulative effect, such as Epzo’s story about his mother in ‘The Ghost Monument’, Robertson surviving ‘Arachnids in the UK’ without learning any moral lessons and indeed likely to cause more suffering, ‘Kerblam!’ ending with the system that blew up an innocent woman being allowed to continue (while closing the warehouse for four weeks and offering employees two weeks’ holiday pay), Daniel Barton escaping freely in ‘Spyfall’ while the Doctor wipes the memories of someone doomed to die, ‘Orphan 55’ shows us the unavoidable destruction of the human race, as does ‘Ascension of the Cybermen’. Under Moffat, we had some episodes ending with cynical quips that left a bad taste in the mouth, but under Chibnall the bad taste is there before the outro quip.

Series 11 showed us a joyful Doctor in a nasty universe, and the latter regularly overwhelms the former, but at least ended with Graham and Ryan clearly rejecting murder as a solution. Series 12 was less focussed on real-world evils, and uses them on the fringes of its storytelling (with the Doctor now seemingly embroiled in the universe’s cynicism, using Nazis to imprison a Master now played by a British Indian actor), but we’re still getting real issues reflected back at us along with the message that the Doctorcannot sort this, which is based on the false assumption that this is what Doctor Who is for.

I hope that this is building towards a reversal, that the Thirteenth Doctor gets her Androzani moment where she gets to take a stand against everything that she’s seen. However, we have now had a fully grimdark finale as the lasting impression of Doctor Who for nine months. ‘The Timeless Children’ has proven controversial for its approach to continuity; as well as the retcon of the Doctor’s history this was a ‘Twin Dilemma’(also the last story in its season) to ‘The Day of the Doctor’s Androzani. The heroism is now nullified. When we watch ‘The Day of the Doctor’and the day is saved at the end of the story, now we know all the Doctor has done is defer those deaths (those two billion children’s deaths) and the cycle of violence will continue. At the end of ‘The Timeless Children’the following is presented to us as the good guys winning:

The heroine cannot bring herself to destroy the animated corpses of her entire species, so Joe from Derry Girls has to do it for her. An entire planet now a lifeless husk. The main character’s centuries of trauma are revealed. Their best friend is now a genocidal maniac.

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This is Doctor Who in 2020: violent, cynical, cyclical. A mirror when it should be a window. If Series 13 repeats these trends then I fear history may repeat itself once more. But then, what is Doctor Who mostly about if not seeing a cycle of oppression and then breaking it?

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[highqualitymercy]

I was tagged by @brickstudies thank you!!

Rules: list your ten favorite characters from ten different fandoms!

Les Miserables - Enjolras I just think he’s neat :) but fr he’s a character clearly beloved by the author but still given flaws, and he caught my attention as soon as I got involved in lm

Star Wars - Ahsoka Tano she is probably my favorite character from anything ever bc I grew up with her; I was 8 when tcw began, and I’m 20 with the finale. Ahsoka just hits different because she’s the one I always related to the most in Star Wars

The Old Guard - Joe he’s just so wonderful I love him and I love that he’s the type of dude to give romantic speeches while his partner sighs fondly. He and Nicky take care of Nile from the time she gets there and he’s just great

The Bold Type - Sutton Brady I’m not counting the last half of season 4 bc it’s stupid; up until then, she was the one I related to the most of the main trio, and I love how hard she works and how funny she is

Derry Girls - Orla McCool Orla just does her own thing and I love her. That’s it, she’s awesome

Stranger Things - Eleven/Jane Hopper El is my favorite and I love watching her grow as she’s given a safe space with Hopper and then with the Byers + the kickass powers

The Good Place - Chidi Anagonye he’s wonderful but so, so anxious and I just really admire how he sticks to his moral compass in every situation (even if by afterlife definitions his compass is wrong)

Shadowhunters - Alec Lightwood everyone who followed me for Shadowhunters content many moons ago knows that I love Alec so much; I love his character growth and I love how much he cares about his family

M*A*S*H - BJ Hunicutt BJ is just lovely and I feel like if I relate to anyone in the show it’s him. He’s kind of quiet but once he gets comfortable with everyone he becomes just as integral as Hawkeye to the group

Schitt’s Creek - David Rose he takes himself too seriously which I relate to and then he embarrasses himself constantly which I also relate to. But his journey of like being so closed off and then opening up and finding love makes me emotional too, so.

Tagging: @n0x-w-al3 @areyoumiserableyet @livingwherethesidewalkends @just-a-glittery-fan @xxglossii and anyone else that would like to take part

Feel free to ignore or to do less than 10!

#personal #tagged #thank you i say it every time but i LOVE when people tag me in things #please keep doing it #nicole speaks

[tellthemeerkatsitsfine]

So I’ve just finished a bunch of shows that I’ve been using to kill time during the 2020 pandemic. Basically my plan is to spend this whole situation throwing myself hard enough into British comedy to avoid a breakdown until life is able to start again. My next plan is to work through the several hundred episodes of QI.

So far, I’ve enjoyed the pattern of watching one long-running show at a time, and having one shorter show going at the same time. So I have a list of shorter shows that I plan to watch as I work through the many seasons of QI. Here is my list of shows I’ve already seen plus the shows I’m planning to watch while I watch QI.

I’m posting this list in case anyone has advice or suggestions about it; I’m quite open to those. What isn’t on this list but should be? What do you want to tell me about the shows that are on my list of shows to watch? Do you want to talk about the shows I’ve already seen? Also, I have already found links to where I can watch most of these shows online, but I haven’t found links for all of them yet and backups are always useful, so if anyone has links for these shows those would be appreciated (and if anyone would like the links I’ve found, message me).

Shows of which I have watched every episode since the beginning of 2020

Panel shows

8 Out of 10 Cats

8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown

Would I Lie to You?

Taskmaster

Big Fat Quizzes (of the Years/Decades/Everything/Anniversaries)

Mock the Week

Fictional shows

The IT Crowd

Not Going Out

The Sketch Show

Peep Show (seen it a couple of times before but re-watched after seeing WILTY in 2020)

The/That Mitchell and Webb Situation/Look (also seen before but re-watched after seeing WILTY in 2020 – basically I watched WILTY and then decided to watch or re-watch everything else its captains have done)

The Inbetweeners show + movies (first watched it years ago but re-watched after seeing Joe Thomas with Greg Davies on season 8 of Taskmaster)

The Thick of It + In the Loop (has been my favourite show + movie for about a decade and I’ve seen every episode of it many times, but I enjoyed re-watching it in 2020 and getting some more of its references now that I’ve seen so many other British shows)

Shows I haven’t seen yet but plan to watch in the near future, as I watch QI

Panel shows

The Bubble

Who Said That?

Duck Quacks Don’t Echo

Hypothetical

Jon Richardson: Ultimate Worrier

Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back

Frankie Boyle’s New World Order

Roast Battles

Insert Name Here

The Russell Howard Hour (possibly adding Russell Howard’s Good News before that, though that’s a lot of episodes, we’ll see where we’re at pandemic-wise)

Fictional shows

Miranda

Derry Girls (I’m hoping this show will let me finally get a proper handle on the Northern Irish accent, so I don’t have to keep identifying it the way I currently do, which is, “It’s the one that doesn’t sound like any of the other accents”)

The Mighty Boosh (might add Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy after this)

Shows I would really like to watch but they have so many episodes and my brain has difficulty with the concept of watching some of a show but not every single episode so I hesitate to actually put them on the list, but if this pandemic goes on long enough then at some point I will get to them

The Last Leg

Never Mind the Buzzcocks (I really love watching clips of this show, but the virus will have to mutate at least a couple more times before I commit to watching 27 seasons of anything)

Shows that have so little continuity that I think my brain could probably handle watching some episodes of them but not all of them, and I intend to pick out the episodes that feature my favourite comedians and watch those

The Great British Bake-Off (celebrity version – I don’t have a particular interest in watching random people cook, but I might enjoy watching my favourite comedians cook)

Live at the Apollo