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The Schitt’s Creek, Characters and Storytelling
Since the Summer, I have enjoyed a Friday TV night with my daughter and husband every week. We caught up with shows and movies in her queue. The list includes, among others, The Good Place, Sabrina, Lucifer, The Umbrella Academy, The Queen’s Gambit, and more recently, the Schitt’s Creek. The acting is superb. As Schitt’s Creek progressed, the writing process involved intrigued me. Each episode seemed more engaging than the previous one. I wondered what made them so. I embarked on watching each episode with a writer’s eye. Here is a high-level summary of my observations.
The Main Characters and Their Journey
All the main character’s traits make them unique and hilarious. The central theme is survival and transformation, like in the traditional hero stories. The journey starts when the family loses everything. It takes refuge in the only remaining asset, the Schitt’s Creek, a town the father had purchased on a lark for its funny name. Every episode is a story in which each family member (Moira, Alexis, Johnny, and David) has a brilliant sub-plot that supports the overall journey of adaptation and survival in a motel room in Schitt’s Creek.
Support Characters
The support characters like Roland, Stevie, Jocelyn, and Patrick, provide challenges the family members have to overcome and the spiciness and sometimes absurdity…
