'Schitt's Creek' Flows Smoothly Into Season 5
A sitcom lucky enough to reach its fifth season has managed to navigate its vulnerable infancy, its nervous childhood, its awkward adolescence and its halting young-adulthood. Like most of us at that stage of life, it knows what it is — enough to convincingly fake it, anyway — and it can finally get on with the business of being that.
College is done, the world beckons, they're at peak confidence and vitality. The hard work's over, right? Smooth sailing!
Wrong. The real work is only beginning.
It takes time, hours and hours of clocked field time, for the characters to find themselves, for the actors to settle into their performances, and — especially — for the jokes to seem as if they could only arise from show — from specific characters, in specific situations. For, ideally; the sort of thing that uncouth marketing types might call its brand.
