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Whenever there is a show about high school aged characters there has to be an episode about prom. And the Derry Girls go to their prom in their latest episode. A new student joins the school from the far off lands of Donegal. The girls immediately attempt to befriend Mae (Aoife Hinds), mainly because she’s ethnically Chinese. Mae accepts them because […]
There is a wedding, a funeral, and mishap with drugs, it is the usual array of shenanigans for the Derry Girls in “The Curse.” An old family feud reignites when Erin’s family go to a wedding. It is made worst when Erin’s mother (Tara Lynne O’Neill) tells her aunt to drop dead and she promptly […]
Leading up to the April 14 premiere of the final, six-episode eighth season of HBO’s massive hit series Game of Thrones, Pop Culture Maniacs will be rewatching the entire series (season by season) and writing on how each season fares in light of all that we know now (and thoughts about how the major plot […]
Leading up to the April 14 premiere of the final, six-episode eighth season of HBO’s massive hit series Game of Thrones, Pop Culture Maniacs will be rewatching the entire series (season by season) and writing on how each season fares in light of all that we know now (and thoughts about how the major plot […]
Boy bands were all the rage back in the ’90s, including Take That. The latest episode of Derry Girls looks at the Take That phenomenon in a wacky adventure. The girls and James are excited to go to the Take That concert in Belfast. Their families refuse to let them go when news breaks that a polar bear has escaped […]
Cheat is a thriller miniseries set within a prestigious university that shows an escalating rivalry between a lecturer and her student. Leah Dale (Katherine Kelly) is a sociology lecturer who accuses one of her students, Rose Vaughn (Molly Windsor) of cheating for final year’s dissertation. When Rose is unable to prove the works she sets out […]
Leading up to the April 14 premiere of the final, six-episode eighth season of HBO’s massive hit series Game of Thrones, Pop Culture Maniacs will be rewatching the entire series (season by season) and writing on how each season fares in light of all that we know now (and thoughts about how the major plot […]
Following a strong opening episode, the second season of Derry Girls continues with another hilarious outing. A new English teacher joins Our Lady Immaculate College, Ms. De Brún (Judith Roddy). She quickly inspires the students, including Erin and her crew. Whilst this is going on Erin’s family become obsessed with The Usual Suspects after their night at the cinema is cut short. “Ms. […]
Leading up to the April 14 premiere of the final, six-episode eighth season of HBO’s massive hit series Game of Thrones, Pop Culture Maniacs will be rewatching the entire series (season by season) and writing on how each season fares in light of all that we know now (and thoughts about how the major plot […]
The Derry Girls (and the wee English Fella) are back for a second season of Channel 4’s popular comedy. The first episode sees the teenagers go on a Friends Across the Barricade weekend where Catholic and Protestant teens partake in group activities. Erin (Saoirse-Monica Jackson) and Michelle (Jamie-Lee O’Donnell) want to hook up with a […]