I know it’s a TV show and this is a movie comm, but I just finished the show and wanted to get some chapo opinions on it. It’s got some good bits and I overall enjoyed it. Just feels like it started off pretty strong with Johnny having to start working and then trying to get on unemployment to feed his family. Over time it just seems to give up on that aspect and makes all the characters comfortable petite bourgeoisie that somehow just have infinite money. Then they do the whole venture capitalist bit, but in like a “gentrification is good” way and reveal that the server who everyone treats like shit is actually a secret millionaire that could have solved all the towns financial problems but didn’t?
I liked some of the portrayals of sexuality and the complexity of relationships, but the show falls flat when it comes to any sort of social critique of capitalism, which is odd because the setup seems to be exactly that.
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Technically it’s good but I can’t get past thinking it’s total white trash cringe.
It’s so bad.
Whitewashing bourgeoisie
I watched a few episodes and found every character annoying.
David is alright I guess, he at least gets a job. They never really show them struggling though. Like David gets a job at a boutique and runs it into the ground, then is magically saved by an Australian company that has the same name offering to buy them out for 10k that he and his sister negotiate to like 100k or something. Then the owner just gives him $40k?
They all just leech off everyone else in the community. Like they never pay their bill at the diner and never tip. They just ignore the problems of everyone else to butt in and make themselves the center of everything, then complain when people still help them.
Like they’re written to be unlikeable rich assholes, sorta like the League or Always Sunny characters, but the show just leans into it and is like “rich assholes are good people too!”. They even try to retcon the family being rude to the waitress by just making her a millionaire in the last episode, so them not tipping wasn’t really that bad!
It feels like a show I guess? The performances are good for the most part and some of the interpersonal stuff tracks (like the relationship plots that the kids go through are pretty well written). I just hate that there wasn’t any point that they decided to just commit to the Rose family becoming proletarian. They just remain shitty, but like now they lived in a motel and gentrified a town.
I have people that swear by it, but couldn’t get past the second episode. I swear I must be watching a different show than what other’s have.
My favorite part was when they lost everything in the first episode. But yeah, they did kind of give up on them not having any money, didn’t they?
Same, I was hoping for some re-edication when they got to schitts creek, but instead they just fail upwards until they’re allowed back into the bourgeoisie.
Even to the very end, they turned their nose up to the working class people of Schitts Creek, instead of getting a better understanding of the conditions of the working class. They still absolutely hated Roland in the end; his working class aesthetic was constantly the butt of the joke.
The last joke was Roland getting a new truck, but actually not and he was just borrowing it, and Johnny telling Stevie to do a turndown in room 2 while he gets driven off to the airport.
Like even by petite bourgeois standards, HE DIDN’T EVEN OWN THE MOTEL. IT WAS ALL STEVIE’S, BUT SHE’S STILL DOING MEANIAL LABOR WHILE HE JETS OFF TO NEW YORK. Like what the fuck, he didn’t even do anything, he just finally found one member of the bourgeoisie that hadn’t completely abandoned him.
the dad looks like Brezhnev
I saw a great tweet saying it’s a distillation of comedies that use ‘well that just happened’ as a punchline.
But people I know and trust swear by it, so please, can someone tell me when it gets ‘good’? I got two episodes in.
It’s an enjoyable show to just turn your brain off and watch. Kinda like a less obnoxious rom com with some of the relationship plots. The politics are liberal as fuck, but that’s kinda to be expected. It’s a slightly above average sit com at best. It absolutely suffers from the “well that happened” trope. Especially after season one when they realized there isn’t actually upward mobility for poor people and the only way to have them advance was a miracle $40k that comes out of nowhere and just kinda becomes an infinite money pot for the rest of the show.
It’s obviously not intended as an overtly political show, more of a ‘hey wouldn’t it be wacky if we put this out of touch rich family in a small town?’ kind of thing. That’s why they only lightly touch on themes of bisexuality and wealth disparity. The problem is, if you’re conscious of those things, which probably everyone here is, you can’t watch a show about formerly wealthy people, one of whom is bisexual, living in a relatively low income, unprogressive town and not consider how unrealistic it is.
Overall it has some good bits and the lead roles are generally well acted. I personally don’t need it to be class conscious but I could see it reinforcing some inaccurate worldviews. I tried binging it when I was depressed a while back. Liked it at first but got annoyed with the characters after a couple seasons. Not a good show to be overexposed to.
