[6.7/10] Alas, another underwhelming start to a new season of Schitt’s Creek. I don’t know what it is about the show that it can’t put its best foot forward in its first shot out of the gate, but three data points is officially a trend! Woe is us!
The show’s not only back and doing love triangles, but it’s back to doing them with everybody now! Not only is Mutt back in the picture, but he’s having trouble in paradise with Tennessee. That’s magnified when he invites Alexis to house-sit while he and Tennessee are out of town, and she naturally brings along Ted so that they can all maximize the drama of what is, more accurately, a love quadrangle. Who needs character growth when you can throw in more relationship drama? (Though I’ll cop to laughing at Ted’s bad puns about Mutt and Tennessee going off to a “pinecone harvest.”)
It also turns out that both David and Stevie are dating Jake, the strapping woodworker from the season 2 finale. It feels like the show is eventually just going to cut to the hypotenuse of this one, but again, I don’t need relationship drama between David and Stevie over some random, seemingly polyamorous guy. (Though again, I’ll admit to getting a big laugh out of the cold open with everyone else in the family walking in on a post-coital David and Jake and making things about as awkward as you’d expect.)
Even without the relationship drama, I didn’t really care for this one. Moira’s first appearance on the council lends her to make big promises that she has to walk back when she realizes there’s no money for what the citizens are demanding. There’s a solid lesson there, about politicians not being able to just give a big speech and wave a magic wand to make good things happen (hello, fellow West Wing fans!), but the realization of it is very broad and not especially funny.
The one story I did really like here was Johnny’s. I like the idea that he feels useless after all the other members of his family are off working or helping lead the town while he’s getting kicked out of his would-be office space by a virus-protection scammer. He’s used to “holding this family together” and feels outclassed and surpassed by everyone else. Moira reassuring him that his contributions are still valuable, even if less visible, is another dose of sweetness between the two, and the only good follow-up to what was hinted at in last season’s finale.
Overall, this is another underwhelming start to the new season, but hopefully this one picks up steam like the past two seasons have.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParentSpoilers2020-06-23T01:42:12Z
[6.7/10] Alas, another underwhelming start to a new season of Schitt’s Creek. I don’t know what it is about the show that it can’t put its best foot forward in its first shot out of the gate, but three data points is officially a trend! Woe is us!
The show’s not only back and doing love triangles, but it’s back to doing them with everybody now! Not only is Mutt back in the picture, but he’s having trouble in paradise with Tennessee. That’s magnified when he invites Alexis to house-sit while he and Tennessee are out of town, and she naturally brings along Ted so that they can all maximize the drama of what is, more accurately, a love quadrangle. Who needs character growth when you can throw in more relationship drama? (Though I’ll cop to laughing at Ted’s bad puns about Mutt and Tennessee going off to a “pinecone harvest.”)
It also turns out that both David and Stevie are dating Jake, the strapping woodworker from the season 2 finale. It feels like the show is eventually just going to cut to the hypotenuse of this one, but again, I don’t need relationship drama between David and Stevie over some random, seemingly polyamorous guy. (Though again, I’ll admit to getting a big laugh out of the cold open with everyone else in the family walking in on a post-coital David and Jake and making things about as awkward as you’d expect.)
Even without the relationship drama, I didn’t really care for this one. Moira’s first appearance on the council lends her to make big promises that she has to walk back when she realizes there’s no money for what the citizens are demanding. There’s a solid lesson there, about politicians not being able to just give a big speech and wave a magic wand to make good things happen (hello, fellow West Wing fans!), but the realization of it is very broad and not especially funny.
The one story I did really like here was Johnny’s. I like the idea that he feels useless after all the other members of his family are off working or helping lead the town while he’s getting kicked out of his would-be office space by a virus-protection scammer. He’s used to “holding this family together” and feels outclassed and surpassed by everyone else. Moira reassuring him that his contributions are still valuable, even if less visible, is another dose of sweetness between the two, and the only good follow-up to what was hinted at in last season’s finale.
Overall, this is another underwhelming start to the new season, but hopefully this one picks up steam like the past two seasons have.