Three friends brought back together when their childhood friend dies isn’t the likeliest of starting points for a comedy, but Lisa McGee has form for finding laughter in dark places.
The award winning writer of hit TV show Derry Girls, said her new Netflix offering How to get to Heaven from Belfast, shares the same DNA.
Derry Girls found fun against a backdrop of The Troubles in the 1990s – remember the one where we discovered that Protestants keep their toasters in a cupboard and that Catholics love statues.
In How to get to Heaven from Belfast a trio of friends head home for a funeral and find themselves in the midst of a mystery.
“They go to her wake but all is not what it seems and they get pulled into an eerie, creepy adventure that takes them all over Ireland and beyond,” said McGee.
But central to everything is Belfast and a “dark Northern Irish sense of humour”.
“Some of the themes are darker and it’s definitely bit of a genre switch up.”
For those of you wondering what a wake is, it’s a tradition across Ireland when a body is brought home, then friends and family gather to talk, reminisce and celebrate the person before they are buried or cremated.