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I remember when "The Wire" came out, I started turning on captions because the Baltimore vernacular was so thick. And the Caucasian and African-American characters spoke separate dialects of it. Especially the constant use of "a'ight" as a contraction for "all right".

Derry Girls is interesting in that the actresses sound mostly like trained Brits doing an Irish accent. I've never been to Ulster, I don't know how people actually talk there, maybe the Irish have a softer brogue from having to interact with the British/Protestant people they share the region with.




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