Jayne Wisener, Cillian O'Sullivan and Jamie-Lee O'Donnell head the ensemble as Sandie, Conor and Eva, three of six Queen’s University students sharing a shabby Belfast house. The series charts their sexual misadventures, family feuds and money crises in half-hour episodes that never bothered with a nostalgia filter. Created by Matt Evans, Colin O’Donnell and Terry Caffola, the show debuted on BBC Two Northern Ireland on 21 February 2012 and later crossed the border to RTÉ2, earning the rare distinction of being a youth drama actually watched by youth in both jurisdictions.
Declan Recks, Andrea Harkin and four other directors kept the tone restless: one week a pregnancy scare, the next a drugged-up rave in the Ulster Museum. Belfast appears as itself, cranes and peace walls intact, rather than a generic backdrop. Over three runs and eighteen episodes the group shrinks and expands as friends drop out, couple off or simply fail to pay rent, reflecting the churn of real student life. The final episode, broadcast on 29 April 2015, leaves the survivors no wiser, just older, which felt more honest than any graduation montage.
Production Details
BBC2 NI / 2 Seasons / 12 Episodes / 2012 - Present
Main Cast
