Schitt's Creek · Season 1 · CBC / Pop TV
Schitt's Creek Season 1
Schitt's Creek Season 1 is a WORTH-IT, BollyMeter 7.2/10. 13 episodes on CBC / Pop TV from 13 January 2015.
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Season 1 of Schitt's Creek introduced the Rose family - formerly loaded, suddenly broke - and deposited them in the titular backwater they once purchased for laughs. Critical consensus was cautiously warm: the 93% Rotten Tomatoes series score reflects a trajectory, not an immediate triumph. Early reviews noted the show leaned on familiar fish-out-of-water beats and that the Roses could tip from eccentric into insufferable. But the bones were good. Eugene Levy's deadpan patriarch and Catherine O'Hara's theatrical Moira generated absurdist comedy with genuine craft, while Dan Levy as David Rose offered a perspective on identity and discomfort that grew more resonant with each episode. The town's ensemble - Twyla, Ronnie, Roland and Jocelyn - arrived as caricatures and began quietly becoming characters.
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The pilot drops the Roses into Schitt's Creek with brisk efficiency - wealthy family meets small-town reality in a motel that smells of mildew and moral reckoning. The jokes land on O'Hara's physicality and Levy's bewilderment; the heart is still loading.
The moment: Moira Rose's first entrance at the motel front desk - Catherine O'Hara's bewildered horror sets the show's comic register in a single expression.