Lisa McGee. Credit: Channel 4 Television Corporation
How To Get To Heaven From Belfast

How To Get To Heaven From Belfast

  • TV comedy drama
  • Netflix
  • 2025
  • 8 episodes (1 series)

Comedy thriller about three thirtysomething school friends united in a mysterious series of events when another old friend dies.

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Key details

Genre
Comedy Drama
Broadcast
2025
Channel
Netflix
Episodes
8 (1 series)
Writer
Lisa McGee
Producers
Caroline Leddy, Liz Lewin and Jimmy Mulville
Company

Saoirse, Robyn and Dara have been friends since school. Now in their late thirties they lead very different lives: Saoirse is a successful writer with a compulsion to hit the self-destruct button; Robyn's a sweary, stressed-out mother of three young boys; and Dara is a full-time carer of an elderly parent, who hasn't managed to move out of her teenage bedroom.

When the women each receive an email informing them of the death of Greta, an old classmate they were once very close with, there's clearly some unspoken, unfinished business. The friends attend her wake but quickly discover all may not be quite as it seems. They soon find themselves embroiled in a dark and twisted mystery.

It's absolutely terrifying. But it's also.... utterly thrilling.

These women are about to embark on the most exciting adventure of their lives. An adventure that will take them from their native Belfast, a city full of ghosts, the pain of the past plastered on every mural, to the mythic wildness of rural Donegal and right across Ireland, as they attempt to put the pieces of the puzzle together and uncover the truth. Even if their own complicated, chaotic and messy lives often get in the way.

Not so much a 'whodunit' as a "what the hell happened?".

How To Get To Heaven From Belfast takes us on an enthralling and hilarious journey, exploring the themes of friendship, memory and what happens when life doesn't turn out quite how we expected.

Additional details

Production
Location
Camera set-up
Single camera
Picture
Colour

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