January 14, 2022

Another perfect pairing of sound & vision - The Derry Girls and Dolores


Joy and horror. Living in Northern Ireland saw both go hand in hand in the 1990's. Life pre-ceasefire was a scary one. You had to take your fun where you could find it and eccentric Orla McCool grabbed any opportunity for fun with both hands. Her new obsession is step aerobics and she doesn't care what anyone thinks of her.

 

She's the laughing stock of the school of course. But friendship drags her alienated friends back together and onto the stage to support her. They might have grown up problems but they're children and at their happiest laughing with each other. Even Sister Michael's heart of stone is melting at the spectacle. Not a thing on earth could ruin this mome....

The reality of life in 1990's Derry crashes down. Erin's family come together to watch the horror unfold. Even Grandpa Joe. Dolores O'Riordan's angelic voice brings us right back to that time and place in a way only music can. Those news reports we all dreaded from the North terrified us down here and yet life continued up there in a way unimaginable to us who never lived through it and this scene from the series 1 finale of Derry Girls feels like a perfect encapsulation of it all.

It's perfect.

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