Popular Irish Comedy 'Derry Girls' to End with Season 3

It's official: The upcoming third season of the popular Irish comedy Derry Girls will be the series' last.

Set in Northern Ireland in the 1990s, Derry Girls follows the misadventures of a squad of ill-mannered teen girls as they navigate typical coming of age adventures against the backdrop of life during The Troubles, the colloquial name for the three-decades-long conflict between nationalists (mainly self-identified as Irish or Roman Catholic) and unionists (mainly self-identified as British or Protestant) that often resulted in bombings and other acts of terrorism.

It stars Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Nicola Coughlan, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, Louisa Harland, and Dylan Llewellyn.  (And, spoiler alert: It's truly incredible, heartfelt and hilarious by turns.)

Lisa McGee, the creator and writer of the series, confirmed the news on Twitter, stating that it was "always the plan" to end the show after three seasons.

“Derry Girls is a coming of age story following five ridiculous teenagers as they slowly… very slowly… start to become adults, while around them the place they call home starts to change too and Northern Ireland enters a new more hopeful phase - which was a small, magical window of time," McGee said in her statement. "Derry Girls is a love letter to the place I come from and the people who shaped me. It has been an honor to write it and I will be forever proud of everything it's achieved."