“Do you think the vibe is weird in here?” asks Robyn (Sinéad Keenan) in How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, Lisa McGee’s new Netflix comedy-mystery caper. Weird vibes are now normal in television shows set in Ireland. As Saoirse-Monica Jackson’s character might say, it would be strange if there weren’t any weird vibes, babes.
McGee offers a knowing send-up of weird vibe shows, winking at how Irish-flavoured dramas lay national cliches on thick while simultaneously contriving to fudge their sense of time and place.
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“Locals” deploy Americanisms such as “twisters” and “motels”, then other characters loudly question why.
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