"Plots began to feel like freeways: great for moving you along efficiently, but all pretty much the same. And, in truth, you can't see much of life from them. You're better off on the streets, back roads and alleyways. Someone who grasps this is Lisa McGee, the Northern Irish screenwriter who had an international hit with Derry Girls."
"The show serves up so many different tones that it's like watching one of those performers who can juggle a chainsaw, a puppy and a bowl of jello while playing a banjo with their teeth. The story centers on three late-30s Belfast women who've been friends since going to Catholic school together."
"There's Dara (Caoilfhionn Dunne), a lovelorn lesbian who's stuck as her mother's caregiver. She might seem like a drip, except that Dunne gives her the quiet drollery of a Buster Keaton or Stan Laurel."
How to Get to Heaven from Belfast represents screenwriter Lisa McGee's departure from her hit series Derry Girls into crime comedy territory. The show centers on three late-30s Belfast women—Saoirse, a fantasist television writer; Robyn, a brash bourgeois mother; and Dara, a quiet lesbian caregiver—who reunite when their estranged school friend Greta dies under suspicious circumstances. Drawn by a shared dark secret from their past, they travel to County Donegal and begin investigating Greta's death. The series deliberately eschews conventional plot-driven storytelling in favor of character development and tonal variety, blending multiple genres and comedic styles while exploring the lives and relationships of its protagonists.
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