How To Get To Heaven From Belfast is the new TV offering from Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee

The creator of Derry Girls, Lisa McGee, has a new show to cure your February blues.

Amid the never-ending rain in the UK, Netflix has released How To Get To Heaven From Belfast, a new comedy crime caper starring Irish actors Roisin Gallagher, Sinéad Keenan, and Caoilfhionn Dunne as three childhood friends with a huge skeleton in their closet.

The trio of childhood friends is summoned to the eerie fictional village of Knockdara in County Donegal after they learn about the death of their estranged friend, and soon discover that there is more to the situation than meets the eye. This starts the women on an eccentric odyssey through rural Ireland, and their past.

Critics are in love with this new crime drama, praising the balance of thrills and comedy. and highlighting the performances from the ensemble cast, which also includes Ardal O’Hanlon, Emmett J. Scanlan and Derry Girls’ Saoirse-Monica Jackson.

Here’s a selection of what the critics are saying about How To Get To Heaven From Belfast so far…

The Guardian (4/5)

“It’s all written with McGee’s customary wit, brutality and sensitivity. The actors (including the young ones who portray the teenage versions of the adult protagonists) keep the whole thing together and emotionally credible, though the preposterousness of the plot increases at a roughly geometric rate – as questions of conscience (‘She’s having an attack of the Catholics’), loyalty and what is owed to whom begin to show through the chaos and the laughs.

“Buckle up, and enjoy.”

Caoilfhionn Dunne, Roisin Gallagher and Sinead Keenan in How To Get To Heaven From Belfast

The Independent........

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