Derry Girls season 3 is out on Netflix, full with a Liam Neeson cameo and all types of hijinks from the gang of Catholic women (and James) in Northern Ireland. The present remains to be hilarious — it’s probably the greatest comedies you’ll be able to watch on Netflix — however one thing specifically from the primary episode provoked contemplation.

The Derry Girls go to the native video retailer, briefly contemplating renting Braveheart earlier than leaving to drag off a dastardly scheme (you need to watch the episode). But first, they run into Sister Michael, who teases them about their examination outcomes earlier than being known as to the register to choose up “the new Martin Scorsese movie,” which had apparently been placed on maintain for her.

First of all — improbable, no notes. Besides Scorsese being a famously Catholic filmmaker, his darkish humorousness is an ideal match for Sister Michael’s sensibilities. But which film was it? This second is what I received my journalism diploma for.

The third season of Derry Girls is about within the spring of 1998. The two most just lately launched Scorsese motion pictures on the time had been Casino (1995) and Kundun (1997). Casino could be significantly humorous for Sister Michael to lease. It’s raunchy, violent, and arguably Scorsese’s sexiest film. Casino got here out within the U.Ok. and Ireland in February 1996, whereas the Oscar-nominated historic epic Kundun got here out within the U.Ok. in April 1998.

Since she’s at a video retailer and never at a theater, it’s doable she’s renting Casino and it’s simply taken eternally for it to return out regionally on VHS. But I believe the good cash’s on Kundun — it had simply come out, and even when it wasn’t fairly out there on VHS on the time, we’ll permit for some storytelling flexibility from this fictional comedy sequence. After all, Sister Michael’s charmingly acerbic wit and fondness for colourful language would make her an amazing slot in nearly any Scorsese film — Mob variant, Catholic variant, or Other.

The present’s consideration to element with interval accuracy is among the many issues that takes it from enjoyable, breezy comedy to an really nice tv present. It’s the little moments like these that make the world really feel lived in (and make the present’s dramatic moments land in a extra deeply felt means). Even the truth that the video retailer worker explicitly put it on maintain for Sister Michael, fairly than her calling in to order it herself, provides an additional layer of element and perception into the present’s world and the characters that stay in it.

No matter what, I hope Sister Michael had a good time. I await her ideas on The Irishman in season 31.