"Schitt's Creek" what is the attraction with this one?

[yellowdogintexas]

I have been attempting to watch it and can only get through maybe 3 episodes at best.

Does it get better? Do the characters ever become even close to likeable?

The way I figure it, a show that swept the Emmys in its final season has to have some sort of redeeming feature. I am not finding it so far

[Beaverhausen]

1. It's so great

Stick with it

[ZZenith]

2. Could never warm up to it no matter how hard I tried.

My wife kept insisting but it never clicked.

[True Dough]

5. Same boat for me, exactly

I really don't connect with it at all. My wife LOVES it.

[ZZenith]

11. Could anything be more mysterious than one's own wife?

[likesmountains 52]

3. I made it through the first season.

It never got better for me, and I feel like I gave it a good shot.

[hlthe2b]

4. I gave up initially halfway through the first season, but went back to it later and watched the

entire series. I think it did get better from season 2 onward. Not my favorite show, but it was more entertaining as it progressed.

[leftieNanner]

6. What channel is it on?

I'm a Eugene Levy fan and have wanted to see it.

[JackintheGreen]

7. I loved it once I skipped the first two seasons and started mid season 3

It’s a specific kind of comedy sensibility that seems to come through Second City, and it takes a while for the characters to be anything more than obnoxious stereotypes, which is absolutely how they are framed in the first season. Just gross people I don’t want to spend any time with. But it gets better. For me, at least.

[underpants]

8. It's funny bit nowhere near the credit it's given. The characters are unapproachable

It also derivative of Arrested Development.

[Peregrine Took]

9. The title is so off putting - just crude...

I can't stand broad humor and it sounded really broad.

[USALiberal]

19. Lol??? Really? The title?

[snot]

10. I loved it,

and loved all the characters, especially Moira – so awful in such a wonderful way. The arc over Schitt's seasons basically follows the characters through a growing-up process.

For anyone who hasn't seen the show, I'd liken it to Fawlty Towers – Cleese's character, Basil, might be unbearable in person, but I found him hilarious at a safe comedic distance. (Although Fawlty Towers may be more realistic in that, as far as I recall, Basil never grows up.)

[applegrove]

12. Character started to grow after season two. And it got sweeter which

is not how it started. No surprise Moira has become a gay icon. The novelty is in the body language after the dialogue and in the fact the gay characters were just a normal thing.

[MuseRider]

13. It took me 2 maybe 3 times to watch the first season.

I ended up loving it, I am not sure why I took so long. Sometimes rather than the short story you have to watch it long, kinda like Wes Anderson for me. I dearly love that cast, they were perfect. Try watching thinking of them separately then putting them together. Not so much a story, it is a pretty simple story, but just a study of some very odd people all stuck together for one reason or another.

Moira, OMG, that was perfection.

I do hope you end up liking it.

[Lulu KC]

14. It took a while for us--

Not a whole season, like Parks & Rec, but maybe 6 episodes? Then we could not turn away. Not in the very special #1 place of Detectorists.

[Phoenix61]

15. Can't stand it. No idea why it's so popular. nt

[bamagal62]

16. I think it's hilarious.

[bahboo]

17. sitcoms are really personal it seems...

I love the show. I remember friends saying you have to see Big Bang Theory. Ok...really didn't like it. Personal taste as to what's funny I guess...

[Laura PourMeADrink]

33. So true!!! I never understood how Veep and Modern Family

Won so many awards.

It must be each person's individual sense of humor.

[hunter]

18. Seinfeld was vile. Schitt's Creek made me laugh.

Seinfeld was frequently mean spirited.

Schitt's Creek reminded me more of Bob Newhart's shows -- a bunch of oddball characters making their way through life as best they can, in spite of their limitations.

Throughout the series even the most hapless characters eventually demonstrate some unique quality and strength.

The finale of Seinfeld was a train wreck. The finale of Schitt's Creek was a triumph.

[Lisa0825]

29. Well-said!!! nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

34. Vile? Hmmm

[hunter]

36. It's cynical and mean.

Cynical and mean is too easy.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

37. Like what? Seems like they were always just finding quirky little things that annoyed people

What was cynical? What was mean? Just that they made fun of quirky behavior? I think I loved every minute of it. The only time I think I can agree at all in many many seasons was the way they treated George's fiance dying from the bad envelope glue.

To each his own I guess

[mn9driver]

20. The entire cast are brilliant comic actors.

I love it.

[Merlot]

25. That's why I watched it - the cast were all brilliant

I also didn't like it at first, then went back (mostly because I was at the end of Netflix) and stuck with it. Story line about rich immature people who grow through hardship was a little overdone for my taste, but the way these actors deliver each line made me look past storyline. Yes, Moria is wonderful! The mayors wife was also great.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

38. Moira bothered me the most. Her voice is extremely grating to me

[kacekwl]

21. I watched it when it 1st came out.

Took me a couple of episodes to figure it out but after that I could not stop. I knew it was special from the beginning and only got better for me. Roland Shitt is the only one I could do without. On edit I'm watching it on Netflix now

[bif]

22. I enjoyed it. Although I don't don't get Eugene Levi

Absolutely the most unfunny comedian ever.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

35. Lol. I think Jon Stewart is rarely funny

[TomSlick]

23. My wife loves it. Me, not so much.

My wife is ever so much smarter than I. Maybe that's the explanation.

[qazplm135]

24. first season it's on the edge of entertaining

it's one of those shows that you aren't laughing out loud but you watch a couple of episodes in a row on autopilot.

But it's a slow burn and if you stick through they characters definitely grow up and become a lot more likeable by the end.

They don't cheat that growth though, they definitely make the characters earn it.

But yeah, it's definitely something that's better in the end than the beginning.

[bif]

26. It's one of those show that grow on you.

My wife and daughters absolutely loved it. So I started watching it. I thought it was okay at first. I stuck with it and it really grew on me. I loved it by the end.

[Tracer]

27. I never even made it to the end of Season 1, episode 1.

NT

[patricia92243]

28. My understanding is that it does get better after season 3 or 5 or something like that.

I can't imagine watching a ridiculous series for several seasons to finally get to the "good" stuff.

[nuxvomica]

30. Huge disappointment for me

I've made repeated attempts to get into the show because it stars three performers in my "pantheon": Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, and Chris Elliott. But it really needs much better writing as even these talents can't carry it by themselves. There's a scene in Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip where the head writer grumbles that he has to rewrite some sketches after watching the dress rehearsal because they just "don't work," but the producer tells him not to worry because the performers will make it work, and the head writer angrily responds that it's his job to make sure it works before he even hands it to the performers. I don't think the writers on Schitt's Creek have the same philosophy.

[NH Ethylene]

31. I couldn't get through the first episode.

It just didn't strike me as funny at all.

[djm5971]

32. Me neither.

I just tried this one last night after I finished The Kominsky Method (which was great!). I couldn't get into Schitt's Creek at all. Not remotely funny, just annoying.

[doc03]

39. I agree I watched a few episodes, it does nothing for

me.

[NewHendoLib]

40. I don't think it is funny. Overacted for sure - obvious - no thanks. we tried.

[USALiberal]

42. Lol

[USALiberal]

41. You need to have a sense of humor. Nt

[NewHendoLib]

43. we have excellent senses of humor - but not this kind.

The humor on Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Breaking Bad - Monty Python - etc - the Christopher Guest mockumentaries.

But to us, this was grating, annoying, obvious, and just not funny. Way too forced.