‘Derry Girls’ Is Coming Back For A Second Season To Fill The Gaping Hole In Your Heart

If you guessed 12 months ago that one of the most celebrated and beloved shows streaming on Netflix was going to be a small-scale comedy-drama set during Northern Ireland’s troubles, called Derry Girls, then congrats, because you’re one in a million.

But that’s Derry Girls in a nutshell. The unexpected viral success is itself an artistic underdog about underdogs; a powerful show about innocence lost, experience gained, and how to navigate a world that is geared towards ignoring you.

DERRY GIRLS – aka Thirsty Girls – is a lot of fun. pic.twitter.com/cVGMXm8r1J

— Joanna Di Mattia (@JoannaDiMattia) February 7, 2019

Despite all of the success of Derry Girls — it’s spawned a barrage of hot takes, and some of the best reviews that a show streaming on Netflix has yet received — it wasn’t necessarily a sure thing that the show was going to get a second season. Sometimes, it’s better for longform television to burn out rather than fade away, and for a while it looked like Derry Girls was going to do just that.

After all, the finale of the first season was so perfectly pitched — a heartbreaking, emotional look at the changes rocking both the central characters and Ireland itself — that it wasn’t necessarily clear that the story even needed to continue.

Well, fans of the show, you’re in luck: not only is Derry Girls season two coming, it’s coming soon.

If the trailer is anything to go by, the second season will be full of the quirks and narrative twists that made the first so great. All of the show’s old favourites are returning, a whole new barrage of faces are getting introduced, and there’ll be a small army of (currently not yet dead) nuns. What more could any self-effacing Derry Girls fan possibly want?

The exact date of the second season’s release is still up in the air — the creator Lisa McGee has said that it’ll be some time in March. Hopefully that’s sooner rather than later.