A more-adult SitCom courtesy of the Pop network, streaming services and the CBC which is a bright spot in the continuous division of larger audiences killing the giant broadcast networks. There’s no way Creek would last a month on the Big Five in the US.
The premise is simple. Johnny Rose was a video-rental-store magnate whose business manager ripped him off and didn’t pay Rose’s taxes. Now the Canadian IRS is seizing everything he and his family one with one exception…a small town he bought for his son as a joke, aka Schitt’s Creek. Having nowhere else to go, the quartet check into the only hotel where they have to get re-acquainted with each other. At times, many of the jokes are the country mouse v. city mouse yet it pays off.
For me, it’s great to see Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara in action again as a nouveau riche couple trying to cope with less, again; they both had middle-class beginnings. Their children David and Alexis tend be the stronger comedy because they have no idea on how the real world works, nor does anyone care about their sense of style. Chris Elliott as the town’s mayor brings the laughs due to his boorish nature and especially his name being an onomatopoeia…Roland Schitt.
The first two seasons are on Netflix. I highly recommend Creek. It also not for children under 14; they do drop F bombs and there are sexual matters you’d rather wait until the kids are older to explain.