Lisa McGee’s ‘How to Get to Heaven from Belfast’ has hit the top of the Netflix trending charts in Ireland and the UK, just days after its release.

The Derry woman and ‘Derry Girls’ writer and creator has yet another smash hit on her hands with the new, eight-part comedy-thriller.

The series, which includes scenes filmed in Derry and Inishowen, was released on Thursday, February 12. In just a few days, it has landed the number one spots in the current top 10 most watched Netflix shows in Ireland and the UK.

Reviews of the series, which stars Roísín Gallagher as Saoirse, Sinéad Keenan as Robyn, Caoilfhionn Dunne as Dara and also includes Lisa’s fellow Derry women, actors Bronagh Gallagher and Saoirse-Monica Jackson, have been hugely positive. It has an impressive 91% score on Rotten Tomatoes while Time described it as ‘constructed around the same two pillars that made Derry Girls so solid: lovable, complicated characters and gallows humor that is both skillfully written and flawlessly delivered by an ideal cast.’

The Independent, in their review, called it ‘bonkers but brilliant’, while Digital Spy said: ‘How to Get to Heaven from Belfast is exactly what we want to be seeing from Netflix – an original, creative and bold new drama that's not afraid to take some risks and try something new.’

if you haven’t seen it yet, the series synopsis outlines how: ‘Clever, chaotic TV writer Saoirse, glamorous, stressed-out mother of three Robyn, and dependable, inhibited carer Dara have been a tight-knit group since school.

"Now in their late 30s, but still as close as ever, these three friends are about to embark on the most thrilling adventure of their lives. When an email arrives, telling them about the death of the estranged fourth member of their childhood gang, a series of eerie events at her wake set them on a dark, dangerous and hilarious odyssey through Ireland and beyond as each tries to piece together the truth of the past. A show about friendship, memory and what happens when life doesn’t turn out quite like you’d expected.”

‘How to get to Heaven from Belfast’ is now showing on Netflix