Pick of the week
How to Get to Heaven from Belfast
Lisa McGee follows Derry Girls with a comedy drama that is familiar in style but subtly different in form and content. This time, beautifully rendered notes of female friendship are blended with undertones of farce, horror and, in typical McGee style, enough emotional weight to keep the stakes high. It concerns three friends in their late 30s – Saoirse (Roisin Gallagher), Robyn (Sinéad Keenan) and Dara (Caoilfhionn Dunne) – who attend the wake of Greta, the fourth member of their tight but mildly traumatised teenage posse. The reasons for their sense of unresolved injury are eventually revealed as the fate of Greta becomes an itch the trio are forced to scratch. Sweet but sharp.
Netflix, from Thursday 12 February
