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Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Enjoyed Season 5 of Schitt's Creek and hoping the final season will make its way to Netflix

Season 5 of the hilarious Canadian sitcom/drama Schitt's Creek continues the arc of the story line, as the 4 members of the beleaguered Rose family continue not only at adapt to their fallen state (a once-wealthy family, whose fortune came from a national chain of video stores, is now living in a small motel in near destitution in the eponymous remote township) but also in fact become a part of the community, changing the lives of others and becoming more mature, sensible, and loving, to their neighbors and to each other. The main plot lines in this 5th, and penultimate (though we probably won't see Season 6 on Netflix for some time, blah!) season,  involve Johnny Rose (the always-funny Eugene Levy - who with his son Daniel created this show) getting deeply involved in the management of the tiny motel, Moira (Katerine O'Hara) proud of the seeming revival of her acting career (she's cast in a Croation horror film admittedly a ripoff of The Birds) and planning a local theater production of Cabaret (which we thankfully get to see in the final episodes), the flamboyant David (Daniel Levy) now in love with his business partner (Patrick) who is his temperamental opposite, and the delightfully ditsy Alexa (Annie Murphy) trying to build her PR business and in love with her polar opposite, the straight-arrow somewhat naive Ted - and props as well to the dour Stevie (Emily Hampshire), who seems to be coming out of her shell of self-doubt, and to the goofy Mayor Roland Schitt (Chris Eliott). The quality of the episodes varies a bit, but there's a laugh in each one, and, hey, they're only 20 minutes a piece; it's not a binge-type series, but one to take a bit at a time, over time.

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