Before the bodies, before the bag, before the moral side eye, there is Lisa McGee. The architect of teenage chaos in Derry Girls now trades Catholic school corridors for adult reckoning in How to Get to Heaven From Belfast. What unfolds carries the hush of a chapel and the tension of a secret kept too long. Something holy. Something guilty. Something distinctly unsaintly waiting in the pews.

While salvation hovers in the distance and the skyline glows with promise, the story tilts its halo sideways and lets imperfection take the pulpit.

Lisa McGee makes it clear that How to Get to Heaven From Belfast refuses the tidy math of a classic murder mystery because the foundation was never built for forensic worship.

“The idea of finding nearly the worst people to solve this thing was very amusing to me,” she said to Variety. Three emotionally volatile women stagger through grief and guilt while instinct replaces intellect and friendship warps the investigation’s center.

Speaking to Variety, McGee frames the series as a puzzle assembled between punchlines. She nods toward Murder, She Wrote, yet rejects its procedural neatness. Her tone moves fast and Irish with life barging into every clue.

Death arrives without melodrama. Evidence slips in sideways. Even Greta’s religious commune backstory avoids heavy exposition, allowing implication and imagery to carry weight where traditional crime dramas would deliver courtroom theatrics.

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As the investigation grows murkier and the bag refuses to explain itself, the future begins to look less like closure and more like a dare.

The finale of How to Get to Heaven From Belfast ties emotional threads yet resists narrative suffocation. Questions linger around the contents of the bag and Greta’s relocation under a new identity.

Lisa McGee has openly stated continuation remains possible, though renewal depends on viewership metrics. The ending functions like narrative elasticity, allowing the trio to be launched into a more extreme setting, potentially outside Ireland, without fracturing their volatile chemistry.

If another season materializes, competence will likely remain a myth. McGee has hinted that inflated confidence would be far more fun than genuine skill for Saoirse, Robyn, and Dara. The humor thrives where recklessness collides with real stakes.

Much like Derry Girls, the engine runs on female friendship under pressure, though adulthood now sharpens regret and moral ambiguity into something heavier and more dangerous.

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