DUBAI: The well-deserved success of her sitcom “Derry Girls” — which followed four Northern Irish Catholic schoolgirls and their English male cousin growing up in the Nineties towards the end of the period euphemistically known as ‘The Troubles’ (30 years of horribly violent sectarian conflict) — means expectations are high for this latest creation from Lisa McGee. She does not disappoint.
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“How to Get to Heaven from Belfast” again centers around a group of Irish female friends, though this time they’re in their late thirties. But they have been mates since their days as Northern Irish Catholic schoolgirls. The three core friends are the endearingly goofy Dara (Caoilfhionn Dunne), Saoirse (Roisin Gallagher) — the writer of a successful crime show — and Robyn (Sinéad Keenan), a wealthy, highly strung mother of four. All three receive notification that their old school friend Greta (Natasha O’Keefe) has died. And despite the fact that they’ve barely been in contact with her for 20 years, all three drop what they’re doing and head to a small town in County Donegal (where they used to go to school) for her funeral. Why? Because, we find out through flashbacks, when they were kids, the four of them did a Bad Thing — in order to help Greta — and they want to know how much anyone else might know about it.
