A charmer on social media called me an unrepeatable name after I expressed misgivings over the finale of Lisa McGee’s Derry Girls, which, at the very last moment, lost its footing and was swept away in a deluge of saccharine. I suspect I shall have to don a hard hat all over again with the release of McGee’s first major series since Derry Girls, the underwhelming and tonally disorienting How to Get to Heaven from Belfast (Netflix, Thursday).
McGee has described the series as a marriage of her two big loves, comedy and mystery, and names Scooby-Doo and Columbo as among her inspirations. (It’s also clearly indebted to Rian Johnson’s Knives Out movies.) But it’s a patchy…