{"id":2288377,"date":"2026-02-19T00:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T00:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2288377"},"modified":"2026-02-19T00:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T00:41:13","slug":"derry-girls-creator-unpacks-her-netflix-mystery-series-how-to-get-to-heaven-from-belfast-and-why-her-heroines-are-the-worst-people-to-solve-this-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/derry-girls-creator-unpacks-her-netflix-mystery-series-how-to-get-to-heaven-from-belfast-and-why-her-heroines-are-the-worst-people-to-solve-this-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Derry Girls\u2019 Creator Unpacks Her Netflix Mystery Series \u2018How to Get to Heaven From Belfast\u2019 and Why Her Heroines Are \u2018The Worst People to Solve This Thing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Spoiler Alert: This story contains spoilers from \u201cHow to Get to Heaven From Belfast<\/a>,\u201d now streaming on Netflix<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It starts, as so many things in Irish life do, with a wake.<\/p>\n

Lisa McGee<\/a> had wanted to take on the murder mystery genre for years. She just knew she couldn\u2019t do it straight. \u201cI was such a big \u2018Murder, She Wrote<\/a>\u2019 fan,\u201d says the creator of \u201cDerry Girls<\/a>,\u201d whose semi-autobiographical Troubles<\/a>-era sitcom became a global phenomenon by refusing to sand down its Northern Irish idiosyncrasies.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow to Get to Heaven From Belfast<\/a>\u201d is her answer \u2014 an eight-episode Netflix comedy-mystery…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spoiler Alert: This story contains spoilers from \u201cHow to Get to Heaven From Belfast,\u201d now streaming on Netflix. It starts, as so many things in Irish life do, with a wake. Lisa McGee had wanted to take on the murder mystery genre for years. She just knew she couldn\u2019t do it straight. \u201cI was such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2288378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2288377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u2018Derry-Girls-Creator-Unpacks-Her-Netflix-Mystery-Series-\u2018How-to.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2288377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2288379,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288377\/revisions\/2288379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2288378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2288377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2288377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2288377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}