Foot-to-the-floor entertainment: How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, Lisa McGee’s sequel to Derry Girls, reviewed
How do you follow a great sitcom? Judging from How to Get to Heaven from Belfast and Small Prophets, the answer is by keeping the same sort of characters, having a plot about a missing woman and adding a touch of the supernatural. Both shows – Lisa McGee’s successor to Derry Girls and Mackenzie Crook’s to Detectorists, respectively – also reflect a slightly mad (in theory) but wholly justified (in practice) confidence that the goodwill established by a much-loved series means viewers will go wherever you lead them, no matter how strange things become. And in McGee’s case, they become very strange indeed. How to Get to Heaven began as if we were in for a dark, rather solemn thriller.
