Writer and actor said challenge of the show was to make it feel violent 'without actually showing anything'
"It is sometimes remarked that the Troubles in Northern Ireland make for an unpromising backdrop for a sitcom about adolescent kids. Well, yer man’s wrong, as they might say. Derry Girls, returning for a triumphant and exuberant second run, proves that humour, dark or otherwise, can be quarried from even the most unlikely of locations.""While there are plenty of well-turned one-liners, the deeper attraction of Fleabag is schadenfreude.
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