We're all Schittheads now: how the world fell (slowly) for Schitt's Creek

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Its creator Daniel Levy calls it a 'scrappy little show', made on a budget that would barely cover the catering on some of TV's more glamorous productions, but on Monday Schitt's Creek will slug it out with the biggest and the best at the Emmys | karlkwin

In some ways, the show was lucky to be able to develop in relative obscurity. In season one, the Rose family – video-store entrepreneur Johnny , former actress Moira , and spoiled kidult children David and Alexis – were almost irredeemably unlikeable, the humour perilously close to sneering at the expense of the townsfolk. By series two, it had begun to find its feet. Season three, in which David finds true love, marked its real flowering, with the later seasons both warmer and much funnier.

Catherine O'Hara frequently steals the show with her outrageous wigs, clothes, statements - and accent."TV shows need some time," Levy told Tennant. Or, as Jessica Louise Window, founder of the show's Australian Facebook fan page puts it, "it's that thing of realising it's kind of snuck up on you. It's a dropper-love effect.""I didn't like it – I found them very unrelatable," she says.

It's possible COVID is a factor in the belated popularity of the show too: being cooped up in vastly reduced circumstances, forced to spend more time with your family than you ever imagined possible , is the story of our times. How nice to think we might emerge better people at the end of it.Certainly the show has found a sizeable LGBTQ+ audience by imagining a slightly nicer version of the world.on the planet – at first presents as gay, but later reveals himself to be "pansexual".

"So often when you tell queer stories you have to show bigotry, you have to show the tension against it," Levy says. He chose not to do that. "And I think people really clung to the philosophy that we will all be better people if we just accept each other for who we are and love each other unconditionally."

 

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