Set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, Derry Girls is a timeless and charming series that is beloved by its eponymous people of Derry. Airing on Netflix, Derry Girls was instantly a hit among viewers worldwide. Following five high schoolers and their adventures of coming of age, it aired for four seasons to see its end in 2022.

From Divergent to The Hunger Games, dystopian novels took the teen fiction industry by storm in the 2000s. Dystopia captivated young readers with riveting characters, tyrannical governments, and striking romantic prospects. The genre made reading accessible by providing teenage girls with female narrators to relate to and look up to. The industry, having discovered this new, powerful, and previously untapped demographic of readers, continued to produce dozens of dystopias spe