“OH, I’D KILL FOR A GOOD COMA RIGHT NOW!”
-Moira Rose
Created by Eugene and Dan Levy, Schitt’s Creek is a Canadian television sitcom consisting of 80 episodes spread over six seasons. The show follows the ‘pain’ and ‘sufferings’ of a formerly wealthy family when they are forced to move to Schitt’s Creek, a town they once bought as a joke.
I remember crying my eyes out after watching the last scene of the series finale of Schitt’s Creek. I am so deeply attached to this show that I am currently watching it for the 4th time and I still laugh the same. That is how much I love Schitt’s Creek. As soon as the creators realised that they made an indelible impact on their audience, they decided it was the perfect time to wrap up and go. Oh yeah, I am tearing up.
The story starts with an extremely wealthy family of four losing all their money and being forced to relocate to a small town- Schitt’s Creek. They take up residence in a motel and figure out what to do with their lives, ‘together’. The show was conceived by Dan Levy; he was curious how any wealthy family would react if they were divested of their money. He further worked on it with his father, Eugene Levy, before pitching it to several networks in Canada and USA. It premiered in 2015 on CBC in Canada and Pop TV in America.
I am not overstating when I claim that you’ll regret sleeping on this hilarious and poignant (at the same time, can you imagine?) show. It is that good. The best part about this show is that it is not as obvious or crass as its title suggests it to be. Yes, the show is about mean and over-pampered people, but the show’s more humanist approach takes it to the top. There is not even a spec of contrition in the show and it will seem extremely natural to anyone watching it. There were scenes which made me go like ‘oh, I have done this too!’. The show has a very firm moral ground, and portrays real values (or tries its best to) without being sanctimonious. It is a hit sitcom with a heart of gold, with grounded and humble beginnings and a meteoric rise to fame and success.
And oh boy, the way these four attack each other. Brilliant. With Moira Rose (played by Catherine O’Hara) calling her son a ‘Disgruntled Pelican’ or Alexis (played by Annie Murphy) And David (played by Dan Levy) cursing each other during their many childish bickering or David just parading around throwing condescending comments like confetti, one just cannot stop laughing. But amongst all this harshness there are some bouts of goodness that one cannot stop noticing. Johnny’s (Played by Eugene Levy) vulnerable moments; David putting his best to be courteous; Alexis’s innocence and Moira’s genuine happiness made us all fall in love with this show. As the characters started getting more humble the following if this show started to increase.
Dan levy claims it to be an ‘evaluation of love’, and well it certainly is. As the series progresses the Roses find themselves to be loved and embraced by the same people they scorned at. They finally realise sticking ‘together’ is the real wealth. Dan wanted this show to be free of sexual stigma. He didn’t want a show where people taught others to be okay with LGBTQ+ community but he wanted everyone to treat it like something ordinary and to accept it like something pretty normal. Why do people make the queer community feel like they are something out of the ordinary, we’re the same! Claimed Levy. Staying true to what Dan believed the show is extremely open-minded where queer and straight exist in harmony as if there were never any distinctions. There were no expressions of homophobia in the storyline and David’s pansexual character was accepted as it is.
The show went on to breaking records with being nominated in fifteen primetime Emmy categories. Frankly, I wasn’t that surprised. This show is a warm and cozy place with bouts of comedy here and there.
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