Derry Girls writer and creator Lisa McGee has said never expected the show to be the overnight success it was.
The final series of the Channel 4 hit comedy is set to return to our screens on April 12, with the world anticipating what antics our favourite Derry girls (and the wee English fella) will get into.
Speaking to Patrick Kielty for Radio Times ahead of series 3, the Derry native said she wanted to be able to "keep surprising" fans after the success of the first two series.
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Lisa said: "I can't quite believe we are finally ready to show it to the world.
"I felt massive pressure, particularly about how we end it, we take it right up to the Good Friday Agreement so dealing with that is such an important thing for Northern Irish people - such weight attached to it but to try and do it in a comedy, it was a balance."
Patrick responded that the appeal of the show to him was that Lisa was able to capture "amazing moments of comedy" and undercut it with "really emotional sucker-punches that you are just not expecting".
Lisa said that anyone who has watched series 3 so far has said that she has handled the Good Friday Agreement with its deserved importance.
She continued: "It still never fails to amaze me that it happened. What an achievement and it was ordinary people and people like yourself who have had really had it on their doorstep and have had horrific things happen to them make a decision for the people that come after them that isn't based on hurt or pain or fear.
"I just feel so proud of us as a country when I think about what way we voted that day - as a people, we handle everything through comedy and something I think you can reach the truth through humour more effectively than any other way."
Lisa only had the realisation that Dery Girls was going to be something huge when it first aired.
"The night it went out was quite interesting as you expect, particularly with comedy, for it to build and you don't really have overnight hits so that's what we were planning," she explained.
Patrick admitted he watched the first episode while in Derry and followed it up by asking Lisa what the importance was of impressing the people of her home city while making the show.
"I was always very worried about that and I think careful with it because I know what they are like, you know what they're like as well, they really really would just tell you what they thought," she added.
"I think if you are kind of truthful, it's fine."
Watch the final series of Derry Girls on April 12 at 9.15pm on Channel 4
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