Derry Girls Season 3 Episode 6 recap: Halloween

Fatboy Slim is in town for Halloween and the group must see him perform. But it seems the night isn’t all fun and games when a tragedy strikes in Derry Girls season 3 episode 6.

Derry Girls Season 3 Episode 6 recap – Aunt Sarah’s Engagement

It is no surprise by now that Aunt Sarah, Orla’s mother, is not the brightest lightbulb. This couldn’t have been proven more so than in this episode.

Mary, Gerry, and Grandpa Joe are stunned to receive an invitation to Sarah and Ciaran’s engagement party. Sarah seems completely clueless.

Upon explaining, it seems that Ciaran did propose to her with a beautiful ring but unfortunately, she does want to marry him. The household panics as Ciaran needs to know but Sarah is too afraid to tell him.

The task, not surprisingly, falls into Gerry’s lap. As Halloween night arrives, Ciaran comes over to talk to Gerry and Grandpa Joe about his engagement with Sarah.

Gerry tries to softly and calmly inform Ciaran of the misunderstanding when Sarah comes into the room dressed as a nun. Immediately Ciaran mistakes her garb as her decision to become a nun instead of assuming it to be a Halloween costume.

He leaves just as Mary enters the room dressed as a nun as well. These nun costumes are actually clothing that Sister Michael sold.

Derry Girls Season 3 Episode 6 recap – The Fatboy Slim Concert

The biggest event of Erin and her friend’s lifetime has arrived! Fatboy Slim will be performing on Halloween night!

As the group waits on line to purchase tickets, they inform Clare that the store clerk is also lesbian. When they reach the register, Clare becomes nervous around the young woman but the five are able to purchase the tickets.

They are the last ones which causes grown men behind to throw a fit, claiming the group cut them. The clerk doesn’t know what to do, so James is forced to fight the leading creep for the tickets.

Instead, James panics, grabs the tickets, rips them up and flees. Everyone is angry and upset that he ripped up the tickets instead of simply taking them.

As they group sulks, they notice Michelle on television. She lies about her cousin James getting attacked over the tickets and obtains VIP passes for the concert.

That evening the group dresses as angels and get picked up by Clare’s dad. He drives them to the concert in the coolest way possible.

At the concert, the group waits to meet Fatboy Slim, but Clare wants to find the clerk. She said she would be wearing a clown costume, but the entire party is full of clowns.

She refuses to meet Fatboy Slim until she finds who could be the love of her life. As the group scrambles to find her, the creep from earlier spots James and they get into a squabble.

It is revealed James was not hurt as Michelle previously lied about and they get thrown out. As they are, Clare finds her love and their share a kiss.

Derry Girls Season 3 Episode 6 recap – Tragedy

The group is upset about missing the Fatboy Slim concert but happy to hear that Clare got to kiss her crush. Things are starting to look up when Gerry arrives to deliver terrible news.

Clare’s father had an aneurysm. The group waits at the hospital until they receive news that Clare’s father didn’t survive.

The rest of the episode takes a somber tone as the funeral for Clare’s father takes place.

Derry Girls Season 3 Episode 6 review

One of the most brilliant aspects about Derry Girls is that it thrives in humor as well as reality. There are times where you will be laughing so hard you cry.

But sometimes you will cry over something sad and deeply relatable. The death of Clare’s father seemed completely out of the blue but that is what makes it work for a show like this.

Death is unpredictable. It can happen to anyone at any time, often without warning.

His death at the end of the episode was effective. Here you are, laughing at the craziness of the group trying to get Fatboy Slim tickets and the chaos at the concert.

But then you come down from that joy the moment you learn a character had died. Clare’s dad may not have been as popular a character as, let’s say, Erin’s dad, Gerry.

But it affects one of the main characters in Erin’s group of friends. Its affects Clare, the intelligent, uptight and surprisingly wacky friend. Life is short and it puts some major perspective for both the characters of the show and those watching at home.

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You can watch Derry Girls season 3 on Netflix.