For the cast of 'Schitt's Creek,' the end is near. That means one thing: heartache
ORANGEVILLE, Canada - To get to the Rosebud Motel, proprietors Johnny Rose and Stevie Budd, you drive northwest from Toronto for an hour, through fields of suburban McMansions, flat farmland giving way to rolling hills sheltering country estates with names like Windwood. At a certain point you turn right, climb a hill and round a corner, and there on your left, a little below the road, you will see it: the signature location of the television show "Schitt's Creek."
You will also have to drive into the past. It is June 25, 2019, and "Schitt's Creek" is finishing filming on its sixth and final season, which was to begin Tuesday on Pop. In several days all will be as it once was - that is to say, the building will still be here, but the Rosebud Motel will be gone.
"Schitt's Creek" tells the story of the Roses, a rich family that loses all its money and winds up living in two adjacent motel rooms in the moderately eccentric small town that gives the series its name. Stories of people who need to lose what they have in order to learn what they need are not new, but there is something especially original and touching about these characters, growing more real with each season, even as they remain outlandish, suspended between acceptance and a dream of escape.
Most of the main cast is working today. Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy, who play parents Moira and Johnny Rose, were on "SCTV" and in four Christopher Guest movies together. Annie Murphy and Dan Levy - who created
