THE DAN LEVY SHOW
Dan Levy knows, perhaps a little too well, that all good things must come to an end. Barely one year after Schitt’s Creek—the show he created, produced, wrote, and starred in—became an international phenomenon, Levy resolved to bring the series to its finale. “We’ve decided season six will be our last,” he wrote in a letter addressed to “Our Dear Fans,” which was published via social media. “It’s not lost on us what a rare privilege it is in this industry to get to decide when your show should take its final bow. We could never have dreamed that our fans would grow to love and care about these characters in the ways that you have.”
Although it was a brave and lauded creative decision—ending a series at its height versus waiting for it to fade, episode after episode—the gravity of it didn’t really sink in until one evening on set, when the last “Cut!” was announced. While everyone began to pack up and head out, Levy, who had been running on 11 total hours of sleep over the past six days of filming, finally allowed himself to realize what was happening. “I was just reveling in every single moment,” he says. “When I went to bed every night, I did so knowing that I was savoring every last drop of this experience.”
After the sets had mostly emptied, Levy began to wander through the universe he built—with the help of his father—some seven years ago. Starting with the motel rooms where the Rose family landed, indignant, after their unceremonious fall from wealth, he took in everything from the rickety beds to Moira Rose’s famous wall of wigs. He revisited the check-in desk of the
