The most excruciating 2 minutes in the history of TV

Nepotism

They mean well. The boy sitting down is cute.

That embarrassed you? You embarrass me.

Yeah, it was cringey but I remember reading that people absolutely adored that scene so what do I know?

LMAO

I had been watching and thoroughly enjoying Schitt's Creek until that scene. I then started hate-watching the rest of season 4, and gave up on the penultimate episode. I hope to re-visit the show, but the Patrick storyline is just plain absurd. He's not cute, not interesting, and he ruined the show's dynamic. Butchering "Simply the Best" just cemented his annoyingness.

So glad I'm not a bitter single old queen. Must be sad. I can't imagine being that bitter. I'm gonna go blow my Latino husband's big 9 inches for ya.

Why did that David guy dressed so horribly? And gays supposed to have good style

I know you specified TV, but pretty hard to be Emilio Estevez's weed-induced, manic dance in Breakfast Club.

R6 I’m not OP but pointing out how corny and cringey that scene is makes one bitter/single/old how exactly?

What R3 said.

This was a great scene especially when taken in the context of the story.

I like that scene but I think Dan was not directed in the right way. His little smile is totally wrong. I would have directed him to freeze in his tracks--like this is the first time anyone has ever shown you love, and it's an arrow to the heart. To set up that David had a major life shift and a major decision to make--having to confront his self-hate and so forth.

I love the first three seasons of Schitt's Creek and then it jumps the shark for me, gets too sentimental. I love the edge of the first three seasons so much.

I thought Trump's 2-minute deceitful speech last night before it got cut off was the most embarrasing thing on TV ever.

R11 raises a good point. In the hands of a more gifted actor, that could've been the exact moment David sees Patrick in a different light...as different from his previous lovers...as the one. Instead he did that weird little smile, which was actually not very characteristic of David.

I think it's supposed to be cringey and embarrassing, that David wants his bf back so much that he's willing to sacrifice his dignity.

The mother and daughter on that show were hilarious. David was so bad. And that hideously stupid Chris Elliott was just god awful.

Eugene Levy's comedic genes apparently skipped a generation over Dan. Sad.

Is that supposed to be their home? It looks like it was filmed at a Restoration Hardware store.

R16, I like Eugene Levy, but I actually think he's the least funny or interesting character on the show. Well, after Roland, that is.

Could not agree more. Absolutely the worst scene of the entire series. Cringing.

R6 Ew to your fetishisation of your husband's race

R11 I doubt there was much directing of Dan going on at all.

"embarrassed"?

Mary OP, get the fuck over yourself.

Tina Turner is rolling in her grave!

R11, R13, this scene had already happened prior to David’s lip syncing.

It’s evident David is surprised and feels awkward by Patrick’s gesture especially in a room full of people. Moira’s loving touch was something he was not used to either.

R22, hopefully Tina hasn't been buried alive quite yet.

Both actors said in an interview they were nervous about doing the scene because it was going to feel so awkward. But they drank a bottle of Prosecco right before and did it in one take.

This is one of the most beautiful scenes about love I've ever seen on TV. I makes me cry with joy.

Tina may not be rolling in her grave, but she's always rolling on the river.

Call me Tina Yothers from now on.

I do not get the love for this show.

Wow, people are cranky as fuck. Yes, let's target this scene and actor. Meanwhile, we have a FUCKING PRESIDENT WHO WON'T CONCEDE THE ELECTION, Mitch McConnell promising to BLOCK ALL OF BIDEN'S PICKS, Lindsay Faggot Graham pledging HALF A MILLION TO TRUMP'S BS LEGAL CRUSADE AGAINST THE ELECTION, and every single idiot TRUMP FAMILY MEMBER AND FRIENDS STOKING CHAOS AND POTENTIAL VIOLENCE ON THEIR SOCIAL MEDIA PAGES.

In the classic words of Sharon Stone in the final scene of "Sliver" -- GET A LIFE

I enjoyed the show and I really found it funny most of the time but I didn’t get how it got all the Emmys.

Its horseplay, aka, gay flitting.

Some of us can be CONCERNED about more than one thing at the same time, r30.

Get a life, R30.

What's so cringey about the scene? Is one of them retarded or something?

I don't know why this show triggers some people so much. It's harmless fun, IMO. I can think of 50 comedies that are worse.

No, it’s not their home. It’s a shop the two characters run together. The shop is supposed to be a Restoration Hardware type shop.

R36 I think it's because it's just recently become over-praised; like sweeping the Emmys - the show definitely deserved to win some, but not that many, nor for that last season.

Rose Apothecary!

R30: major drama queen extraordinaire.

There was a LOT of Schitts Creek that was just bad. Some good scenes but overall I thought it was way overhyped. This lasted forever but we can’t get another season of The Comeback?

How does Chris Elliott have a career?

Dan Levy plays the part in such an arch way his attempts at sincerity fall totally flat.

OP's reaction shows Levy's strength of choices as a direction. Tight lipping on the sync. The "straight-man" reaction of the guy in the chair who actually speaks is a good mix. And Levy does NOT make the editor's job tough. Long sequences. This scene has more strengths than weaknesses.

It's like in real life when your mom or dad suddenly break out in a dance, and they're the only ones doing so. It can skew awkward. And the song, at least coming out of my imac, sounded tinny. Plus it has that 80s beat that sounds dated now.

What a bullshit thread this is. The series is hilarious and Dan Levy, who has signed a multi-million-dollar contract for another series and recently won 3 Emmys, is doing just fine, you stupid cunts.

His talent-free father has managed to hang on for years. Why shouldn't the son?

R47 is an idiot.

Dan Levy is such a terrible actor. He may be a funny writer / good producer, but his acting was just dreadful. I seriously had to fast-forward his parts many times. The show, overall, was really good, and I'm sure he had a huge hand in that. But, hopefully most of his future will be off camera.

He actually provided many funny line readings, of lines he mostly wrote.

I found the show to be mildly entertaining but not worthy of the adoration that it seems to inspire. I did love the quality of male tail that was available to David and his sister. I love Canadian men and there were some nice ones running around town through out the show.

I think the show is very funny and O'Hara is a comic genius. It got me through many a Dumpster fire.

We get all these boring threads endlessly criticizing the show but no dirt from anyone who has actually fucked dan levy. That’s what I don’t understand. Are there no Toronto gays here? Is he celibate?

Agreed, R53.

Especially for calling out shit threads like this. And who's fucked Dan Levy? And what's his body like underneath those sweaters?

I think the show had more good/great moments than bad. I skipped any scenes with Chris Elliott. I think Dan and the rest of the cast were great. That scene is cringy and unwatchable. Dan himself hasn't been able to watch it. I'm surprised it made it into the show.

The scene is fine.

The scene is awkwardly terrible.

A scene so "terrible" OP goes to the trouble of providing a link, and all you Marys weigh in on it.

R58 wouldn't be much of a discussion board if no one weighed in, would it?

A post with no replies ... doesn't sound interesting.

Well R58 luckily we have you posting about 10 of the replies here, so that helps

Weighing in on a shit thread? Enjoy, R59.

Context is everything. The emotionally conflicted and shut-down David already was sung to, and this "embarrassment" was his signal that he got it and embraced intimacy.

R59 is the usual "I'm always right" idiot who loves nothing in life more than the scent of her own farts.

Breathe deeply, Lady Cabbage.

You're welcome, R60.

This scene ruined the whole series for me. It became a different show after this mush, a meandering, cheesy mess devoid of laughs.

R62 bless your heart so easily triggered.

The series overall was hilarious. David was an annoying character, and that scene was a low point.

I thought the three uses of this song on the show were all great, and each one was distinctive. The first one (Patrick serenading David) made me cry because it was so sweet. I know...MARY!

It's Canadian. What do you expect?

The entire series was ruined for you because of this one scene? You're ridiculous, R64.

I loved when Patrick sang his version of the song at the open mike but I thought it was such a ripoff for David to lip synch the same song back to him. Still I think David/Daniel is adorable and so talented.

Chris Elliott is the white Twacy Mo'gan.

I would add, whether or not you love, like, dislike, or hate this scene, it is very far from the most excruciating two minutes in the histiry of TV, Mary OP.

The scene was perfect and helped bring the story line together beautifully. I really loved the way the song was understated and mellow. Lovely.

Romance can be sweet and sentimental, that’s reality.

*history

I never watched the show. I know who the cast are, I know Dan Levy plays a gay character.

I guess your reaction must be based on the context of the scene, or the series, because taken out of context it's not excruciating or embarrassing. I feel like you wasted my time making me click on that.

It feels like the Ludovico Technique aversion therapy from The Clockwork Orange

It sure wasn't "the most excruciating 2 minutes in the history of TV"

"I have never been more embarrassed for an actor" (?) Have you watched a lot of acting in our life?

*your lol

The worst thing about that clip is that the person who video recorded their TV screen has their phone camera set at a ghastly high frame rate, so it looks totally unnatural. Like 60fps.

OP, that isn’t your video is it?

DL must be celibate. We never get any dirt.

R74 He's pansexual or something

R32 Pierre - That's all you have to say about your man's performance?

[quote]He's pansexual

Never have I ever...had sex with a pan. I don't even cook bacon unless I'm fully dressed.

Surely the finest two minutes in the show’s history?

R80 His character is pansexual, Dan himself is gay.

I couldn't make it through the first 10 minutes of this show. I don't know what people see in it. I don't even want to watch the clip at OP.

But you boys have fun!

R36 it triggers people for the following reasons:

1) it’s only amusing and it just won 9 emmys. It was undeserving of all of that noise. It’s this generation’s Everybody loves Raymond.

2) the only really funny people are Moira Rose and the daughter

3) Dan Levy an asshole-human hybrid. He was handed a career, took all the credit and everyone is acting like the success of SC had nothing to do with one of the funniest women in the world playing his mother.

That’s why.

Roland is foul, how could he possibly be Mutt's father?

I still cringe when he shat in their bathroom and broke the window lock.

I thought the scene was cringeworthy too because we hadn’t seen anything like that from David before and it was supposed to be sincere, I guess. When Patrick first came involved with David I thought Dan Levy was a little handsy with the actor, hanging off him and kissing him I found a little cringe inducing as well.

Sadly, the undeserved Emmy sweep killed my enjoyment of the show (it only deserved wins for Comedy Series, Actress and Supporting Actress at the most).

I don’t watch the show but just looked at a minute of the scene out of curiosity. Awful, pandering faux-gay buffoonery. You people must be desperate for laughs. Surely there are better options than this show.

This scene ruined America!

Ok has anyone every heard of the concepts "preferences," "opinions," and "personal taste"? I cannot wrap my head around the notion that so many of you ascribe to, which is if YOU don't like something, then other people are insane if they like it. You don't want homophobes thinking no one should be gay because they personally can't understand same-sex attraction, but you'll be a Taste Nazi any day of the week.

Well, dearies, I thought that Dan Levy was amazing as David. I think he's a smart, hot, and talented entertainer. The nepotism charge simply doesn't stick; the world at large disagrees with you naysayers. Yes! his character is an annoying Nellie -- it's part of the character arc. It's all spelled out in the fantastic writing why David is the way he is, and how scary it is for him to let down his guard. So yes, anything lovey dovey coming from David is gonna make you squirm like hell. On purpose.

And Girls, Chris Elliot did an AMAZING job as Roland Schitt. I hear people who otherwise stan the show complain about this character. But they nailed it when they cast Chris Eliot. Roland is supposed to be weird and gross, and Elliot kills it. He made the Roses even that much more horrified and desperate to escape.

I appreciated the surprise of the show's hefty arc. It was so much more profound than I expected it to be. I loved how John, Moira, Alexa and David each get exactly what they need for their personal growth -- and only then are they released from the purgatory that has been their stay in Schitt's Creek. It's almost like one of those benevolent, comical old Twilight Zones where they learn a valuable lesson but it's heartfelt rather than creepy.

And finally, I want to point out that this modern era is really a low point in quality programming. For a little show this quaint to emerge out of the Canadian mist, and be so uncompromisingly quirky, sweet, funny, sex-positive, gay-friendly and weird...and make it in the States in this day and age of hardened cynicism and greed, well....FUCK. They did something pretty major there. They deserved every damn Emmy they won.

I've been in therapy recently.

Now that I've learned to accept my own feelings, I don't find the scene as cringey as I would have.

In fact, it was rather lovely.

No Toronto gays to give us any dirt. He must be celibate. I’m serious.

Continued analysis of whether the show is good or not. Zzzzzzz.

Thanks, Dan @R92. We really appreciate you patting yourself on the back like that.

That comedy performance alone deserves its own Emmy.

R95 Oh aren't you a clever thing. Lol lol lol. You deserve the Emmy for web forum lols!

I'd suck Ted til the cows come home.

On the deux moi Facebook group (I know I know), the fraus had their claws out after she posted someone saying they worked on great Canadian baking show and Dan was high maintenance and nasty to work with. The fraus refused to believe it. Were up in arms. Then someone from CBC commented that she also found him he incredibly difficult and quite rude to deal with and the fraus went nuts on her too.

His appeal to straight women is intense. My straight female friends LOVE him.

You bunch are a nasty mess, it's a stupid comedy that supposed to be stupid, it's not high brow and doesn't pretend to be. You must be a bunch of bitter old failed show business cunts who never made it.

Jake, Mutt, Ted. Yum.

Agree, OP. This was the last episode of SC I watched.

I think Chris Elliot was hysterically funny in his role. I don't understand all the hate for him.

R99 listen time any interview of dan levy discussing the show and he talks about how he actually considers it a drama with comedic elements about the power of love and how money can’t buy happiness. He definitely doesn’t consider it a stupid comedy. He is clear he’s no comedian and wants his next projects to be dramas. He’s also interested musicals and animated stuff.

I love the show and think he’s hot but yeah.... he doesn’t consider it low brow.

Completely agree with you, R92. It deserved every Emmy it got.

R93 next time you're in therapy, talk to them about using words like "cringey."

Lowbrow comedies are ones like the one with that hick southern comic. That's lowbrow.

Shut up r92

Oh, someone has sand in her vadge. Looking at YOU, R107!

I thought it was charming.

I'm with R107.

R92 seriously - you have to get out more often.

I’m tired of that Schitt show. If you’ve watched one you’ve seen all of them.

R92 has that scene on a continuous play loop, living his life vicariously through David Rose, pretending there's some hot stud desperate enough to go along with R92's fantasy.

I'm R92, and I have to admit...you guys are cracking me up. I will "MARY!" myself and slither back down into my mother's mildewy basement now. Well, first I'm gonna grab a mug to cradle.

OP's scene can only be understood in the context of r23, which pound for pound remains one of the best homosexualist love scenes ever to be filmed for a third-tier Canadian cable network in the 2010s.

I loved the scene and I loved the show. However, my two favorite moments were David & Patrick taking the hike for the proposal and Stevie (love her!) singing "Maybe This Time".

Love this show for many reasons, including the normalising of the 30-something gay relationship that it portrays. If I was a young teen gayling in a small town I would be inspired by the acceptance and hope it portrays.

Noah Reid (who plays Patrick) is very boy-next-door cute - much more so that the more obvious rent-a-hunk trio of Mutt/Jake/Ted, IMHO...and what's with the perma-stubble sported by virtually all the male characters, aside from Patrick? What is this, 1985?

Patrick is the top right

R118 For sure.

Danny ruined that song forever with his ridiculous "tribute". There was nothing good or sexy about his repulsive gyrations to Tina's masterpiece. If Tina were still alive she'd be disgusted.

It's not the Tina Turner lip synching, it's the sweet reactions on the face of the man in the chair. It's pure high camp, the lie that tells the truth.

R120 He plays it for laughs though, it's not supposed to be 'good' or 'sexy', it's intended to be a lip-sync where he's trying to channel his inner Tina

I was just thinking about this the other day, I hate lip-synching, and to lip-synch in reaction to someone standing up and REALLY singing, and touchingly so, is positively ridiculous. I agree with OP one hundred percent. daniel levin is a turd for doing this

Considering most lame DLers love nothing but the ugliest men to live, no wonder you fucks would be creaming your pants over super ugly Danny Levy.

"If Tina were still alive she'd be disgusted."

Thanks for telling me I'm dead.

Tina Turner is alive and well R120. Hopefully she did not see this tragic performance.

Lmao r125

Hell, even I never inflicted that kind of pain on Anna Mae, R120.

We finally watched it and the entire series is cringeworthy and stupid. I LOVE Catherine Hahn and the girl who played the sister/daughter in the show. And the Stevie character. But between the constant mugging and winking toward the camera by Eugene Levy‘s son and Eugene Levy‘s hijacking of the series where he spends nearly every episode screaming, it was just unbearable. Remove the two male leads and it would’ve been such a pleasant show.

Jesus R92 sounds psychologically insatiable. I

R92, “dearie”, do you sit at your vanity each evening and write Shitt’s Creek FanFic?

R129 WTF did you watch. Eugene never screamed once on the series. Moira's constant screaming in every epi always made me wanna throw her into a wood chipper. She was only good in very small doses.

Noah Reid’s music is.... not great?

he's better than dan levin

The Ted actor ever do any nudity?

Jim and Pam's wedding on The Office was worse; the dancing down the aisle and Pam's sappy face was excruciating.

Anytime they made that Danny Pintauro character on who’s the boss act girl crazy or say he liked liked tits and pussy with his femmy bottom voice..

[quote] I LOVE Catherine Hahn

R129 Do you mean Catherine O'Hara? I never saw Catherine Hahn on the show but I haven't watched all the episodes.

Where is Frenchie in the comments or did I miss him?

Chris Elliott went to Hebrew school with Dan.

R139 So?

Looking through the replies, I feel like most don’t get this scene, or the entire show, because you are more mature gentlemen. Or, maybe it’s because some of you have emotional issues, and don’t get the concept of being vulnerable. I hear that you can purchase Will and Grace on DVD, you would probably be able to handle that better.

R141 We get the show, you fucking turd. In the previous epi Patrick did a sweet rendition of The Best and he was being vulnerable about Patrick, loving the right man for the first time. Then the next epi Dan thought he could lip synch to Tina's version and it would have the exact same sentiment? Not in a million years. It was cringe the whole time and having someone so ugly and gross lip synching to Patrick! Fucking disgusting. Every straight man's foreskin fell off at the revolting thought.

Isn’t Chris Elliott 25 years older than Dan? Why was he in Hebrew school at such an advanced age?

I don't know how anyone could have watched over 3 seasons of the show and not realized this scene was SUPPOSED to be cringey.

David came from a millionaire jet-set lifestyle and had fabulous jobs and a variety of lovers, all presumed fabulous as well, and now this kinda doughy Canadian guy was being a goofball to him, and it was real, and he didn't quite know how to take it.

I get that the show had moved past their former life by this time so a lot of people may have missed the intent, and I also think the scene was perhaps a little beyond the reach of the actors involved. I also understand not wanting to watch it because the cringe -- especially when Chris Elliott was involved -- is why I stopped watchin Schitt's Creek altogether, but I don't understand not realizing that it was intentional.

I skipped it, I hate lip-synching

R144 Unless you are Dan Levy himself, you have no clue what the intent was. The first three seasons without Patrick were the shows best episodes. When Dan brought along this boring white bread loser to be his husband, the show fell apart and became unwatchable. The first three seasons were more ensemble. Then after Patrick came aboard it was all about ugly, repulsive Dan. He is not interesting enough to focus on. His sister was a million times more interesting than ugly Dan and a million times better actress. Dan Levy and Noah Reid are both wooden, very poor actors who could not emote to save their lives. The girls who played Alexis and Stevie were a million times better than Levy and Reid. A show exclusively about them without ugly Dan would be gold.

r92, I really like your comments about the show, but I feel like after season one we just don't ever see the Roses react to Roland in a way that makes it look like they want to escape. Maybe I stopped watching the show before some of the scenes you're referring to happened, though, but I remember a slew of episodes where Roland would be weird about Johnny borrowing something from him, or Roland living at the hotel because he was bothering his pregnant wife, and everyone just accepting it and even trying to help him, not wanting to run away.

I never watched another second of this “shitt” show after the scene in OPs post. And Dan Levy will never be seen on camera in any future projects.

R147 Well it's not like they spent the entire six seasons actively jumping out of their skin every time Roland appears. They got used to him to some degree. They are still grossed out by him though. They definitely always seemed put upon when he would have to be engaged. Although I guess eventually that changes when starts Johnny is running the hotel with Roland and Stevie.

Roland provides that tension between the Roses (cultured city folk) and the Schitts (uncultured small town rednecks) that never lets you forget that the Roses are the odd ones out in this town, not the Schitts. That the destiny of the Rose family is never going to be "integration."

(I know that David stays with Patrick when the rest of the roses finally leave. But I don't see that as David assimilating, so much as him modifying his surroundings so that the town starts to reflect him more like with the Apothecary, his gay relationship, that cottage they decide to buy, etc.

R144 You're an idiot. It was not meant to be cringey. It was just a bad decision to try to tug at heart strings. I'm a fan of the show but that was a corny moment.

[quote]You're an idiot.

Strong words coming from a guy who wrote unintelligible crap on the Buddy Hackett thread, thinking he was contributing something worthwhile.

When you grow up, maybe you'll learn how to have a conversation and not just scream "You're an idiot" every time you disagree with someone.

Agree r49. He’s so one note it’s distractingly terrible. He has literally no range. He’s also one of the most unattractive people I’ve ever seen. He has one of the most slappable faces I’ve ever seen. The character is an unlikable bitch and I’m amazed that none of their plot lines revolves around David getting the crap kicked out of him by the local rednecks.

It's just a game at this point, trying to outdo each other with how much they hate Dan Levy. Oh, I'm sorry, "daniel levin."

Up next: someone photoshopping a Hitler tattoo on David Rose.

Popularity breeds contempt. If his face wasn't so punchable and hateable, people would find it absurd to attack Daniel Levin lol. But clearly there is a lot to hate about him. I find it hilarious. Keep it up, girls. He isn't a great writer. As I watched every episode, I noticed every episode credited to him had no laughs or managed a single laugh.

Loved the show but found it a tad egomaniacal that the final season focused entirely on David’s wedding and fucked Annie Murphy out of any good scenes except that one breakup scene with Ted - which won her an Emmy. The character and Annie as an actress deserved better. Her storyline became reacting to David as bridezilla and going on some rebound date with an old man. I can’t even remember what stevie’s storyline was - working in the motel business? After she had that great storyline season 5 with cabaret?

I wonder if the other writers thought it was idiotic but couldn’t deter Dan from making that choice. In the end, it’s his show and his decision, but found season 6 underwhelming except for the final episode.

SC became the "two wooden non-actors" David and Patrick show after season 3. So obviously everyone else was fucked out of good SLs. I bought season 1-3 on dvd. The series ended for me after 3. Give zero fucks for what happened after that.

I thought that was when Jessica Savitch stared off into space during her coke out interlude?

R20 Ew to you being a cunt. Grow up.

I get that the Canadian Schitt's Creek troll is really proud of this little broadcast cash cow. I really do. It isn't every day that a Canadian program scores attention in the states. But our sweet SC troll tends to start these threads just so it can shill for Dan Levy and the show itself, knowing that not everyone connected with it.

Looking at the buzz over it on Twitter and Facebook, it's clear it was/is mostly popular with straight women, likely early 30s to early 50s, the types that live on social media and still follow blogs. For whatever reason, it just isn't so big with a lot of us gays. Maybe because Levy's mugging at the camera was just too exhausting, a little too campy. A little too much winking at the camera. It doesn't help that at least a couple of people on DL have claimed to have worked with or been around him in the past and that his unguarded personality is not so friendly. Seeing Eugene Levy in interviews, as much as I like him, he really does seem to think he's a STAR! instead of merely the character actor he is. He has a certain air about him that suggests he takes himself a little seriously. Most celebrities do I suppose. And that comes across in his kid.

The show itself was not nearly as cute or hysterically funny as the OP/Schitt's Creek troll makes it out to be. And Eugene Levy DID, in fact yell through the entire series. More like a very loud whine, when he wasn't shrieking in faux outrage over something.

It's also clear that the Levy's realized how beloved the three female leads were quickly becoming, and you can almost tell the minute they shifted the focus away from them or the group as an ensemble. There were still scenes and vignettes which focused on the female leads; all incredibly likeable and great actresses. But it's also obvious when the writers began making the two Levys the central characters. It wasn't as much of an ensemble cast as it presents itself as. This show became and was primarily about Dan Levy camping it up on camera, playing a "sassy" queen, and his dad playing a slightly more serious role.. I think it happened at the start of season III. If you've seen the series, you know that there wasn't one episode that did not feature one of the two Levys. Not just giving them the majority of the lines, but highlighting their characters, even when the episode's focus was supposedly another character.

And the Levy daughter/sister.... That poor woman really got a raw deal. Imagine being the immediate family of the creators/producers and stars, and never getting even half an episode which focuses on your background story. The fact they had her there more out of chore than desire was apparent in the writing and in the camera.

it reminds me of Gilligan's Island: zany cast of characters, totally implausible plots, always a happy ending (almost)

R159 You made many good points I agreed with. For me the series was always about the women. For my top 5 or 6, all of them are female. I really cared nothing for the males except for some of the hot man candy like Mutt and Jake. Their bodies were perfect, their characters meh. Alexis was the strongest actor and my favorite character. Her stories were hilarious. Her mannerisms and sayings - so Alexis. If only ugly Dan and his dad were killed in the first episode and it became all about the women. Then the show would have had more life than just three seasons. Stevie was my second - not much to her character but great actor and delivery. Jocelyn would be my third fave - she was extremely sweet and smart - amazing she could stay married to such an unlikeable dweeb as the Roland character. Four would be Moira - but her screaming every single episode was as tiring as Dan's mugging. I don't know who five would be but they would be female. Thanks for pointing out that it is hetero fraus who are the only ones obsessed with the show. Gay men could never be enamored with an awful "actor" like Dan, plus he is not attractive at all.

Awww, I think you queens are over analyzing it. I had a boyfriend that did stuff like this all the time, just being goofy and catching a fun vibe. Haven’t you ever had someone serenade you?

I also wonder what’s under all those sweaters, I would’ve totally chased a guy like Dan in a club in the 90’s, God knows they were a dime a dozen in Boston. Some of them threw a mean fuck.

[R141] You think that grotesquely exaggerated gay Stepin Fetchit schtick equates to "being vulnerable"? Are you autistic? I tried watching the show but it seemed depressingly forced, desperate and joyless.

R162 I agree with you. Way too much analysis. Either you could stomach the scene and move on, or you couldn't. But it's just a show. How many faux pas did our beloved Golden Girls make in its 7 season run?

And yes, R162, the traumatized egoistes with weird fashion sense were throwing MEAN fucks in the 80s/90s. ALWAYS entertaining, always hilarious and exuding confidence and 'tude...but secretly so fragile and insecure. They best thing about those cuties? They would NEVER think about you the next day after a night together. Because they were wither 1. too up their own asses/unstable/on to the next crisis, or 2. way, way too high and drunk the night before to remember the specifics, let alone your address (or name) lol. So yeah, Dan Levin type would have been a LOT of fun on a Saturday night, tripping balls on E, raving to Primal Scream and then hours of delirious sex with lots of smoke and coke breaks.

Agree with R162 and R164

[quote]I don't know who five would be but they would be female.

Ronnie

The show is very Canadian in its overdone sentimentality.

As much as I am enjoying all the Dan “Nepotism” Levy hate here, he’s now cashing TV syndication checks.

I don’t know if he is tbh. Do celebs still read Datalounge? I feel we’ve lost some relevancy in recent years.

[bold] Yet Another One Where The Success Of An Out Gay Man Sends Eldergays Into Hate Mode

R170 - You characterized me perfectly and I own it.

LOL I doubt all gays are enamored with ugly Dan Levin. It is just straight ponchy middle aged girls.

Pretty clear that 90% of the comments are from people that have not watched the show, 9% qualify for the site below, clearly the show did not have a big old gay following...

^^^ I once had "a big old gay following," but then I made a sharp turn around a corner and managed to lose him in the alley.

Emphasis on "old"...

The suggestion that the show is only enjoyed by straight women is ludicrous. Seasons 5 and 6 both hold a 100% rating from critics reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and the clean sweep at the Emmy's was as much in recognition of the show as a whole rather than one particular season (with some catching up do, given that it only had extensive distribution and a wide audience after Netflix got on board in 2018/9.)

Also, this, remember is a comedy show. You can find it funny or not but it's entirely unclear what relevance Dan Levy's physical attractiveness has to that? Can anyone really be so vacuous as to only enjoy a show if they want to fuck the cast? Is that what makes Curb Your Enthusiasm funny...or the Simpsons, for that matter?

R176 is a clueless dumb cunt, aka Karen. DL is a site for gay men and Dan Levy is a gay. People are pretending that his show is the second coming of Christ or something. We gays can attack, criticise, and condemn the show as much as we want. Especially when there is so much to attack.

My straight male friends all love Schitt's Creek.

It connected with people now because many people felt like the Roses during the pandemic, that they were surrounded by their families 24/7 and got to know them again/better by spending all that time together.

DL's Eldergays are mostly single or, if married/partnered, they are childless

I’m a straight woman (apologies) and I find Dan really handsome. So do my straight female friends.

That being said, none of my gay friends do. One of them can’t even watch the show because he finds Dan so off-putting and obnoxious.

I wonder what it is about him that appeals to straight fraus like me. Do we just have terrible taste?

Okay that’s it - I’ll go away now!

R177 Seems like I've hit a raw nerve with you.....and I'm actually a 54 yr old gay man, so pretty much bang in the middle of the DL demographic. For the record, I don't find Dan Levy remotely attractive either, but I do love the show, nonetheless. You haven't addressed either of the points I've made, but, hey, thanks again for your valuable and erudite response in any event.

R178 Not one thing you said in your response is true.

R181 = President Trump

Dan Levy is quite attractive. Are you guys antisemites?

The show is appealing to fraus in the same way overly camp guys are appealing to faghags.

Is this why they had to end it?

R183 I love Jewish guys, in general, indeed my first love was a Jewish boy (Dan Levy is half Jewish, mind you) but Dan is too queeny/prissy and too hairy for me personally. His mannerisms also remind me far too much of a very good friend of mine!

Someone should do a poll of who's uglier: Adam Driver or Dan Levy. It'd be a wash.

Dan is so cringe. I liked the actresses who played Alexis and Moira.

Dan is just all wrong. There’s also something very off putting about a nelly man that’s very hairy. It’s just bad all around.

Any one see the behind the scenes of the final series for SC?

So self-congratulatory.

You would think Dan had invented a cure for the AIDS.

Oh please, you dried-up old snatches. That scene was terrible. In fact, David's character is barely tolerable from season 3 on.

R191 others have said that already and way fucking better than you.

Uh...okay. You MUST be one of those dried-up old snatches.

David! It makes more contextual sense and is thus less horrifying when taken with the entire series.

The show is actually hilarious

Boop.

R179 you are blind AND have terrible taste.

The show is boring, vanilla, and up its own ass with their own fabulousness and Dan Levy is distractingly ugly and his “acting” ability is non-existent. His voice is like listening to the air being let out of a nasal paper bag.

Lol r196 - all valid points but my question was why straight women all seem to love him. I guess we all just have terrible taste and are blind? Fair enough I guess.

Straight females also loved Woody Allen. Dan Levin is better than him at least. LOL.

R198 yes true. Good call.

That scene is meant to be cringeworthy. They are a cute couple. David is wooing Patrick. Which one of you bitter, dried-up or dipsomaniacal, old Queens hasn't made a fool of himself for love?

What is unforgivable is the top David is wearing. It looks as if Captain America went out and got himself one of those rubberized weight-loss sauna shirts.

Why someone like Patrick would look twice at David is beyond comprehension.

OP is an old fart who still feels embarrassed being gay. The self-loathing is big with him.

The first three seasons I enjoyed. After that it just jumped the shark. Catherine O’Hara was the best part of that whole show.

I had an ex who used to lip sync like this all the time. It wasn’t attractive.

Straight white frauen are the reason we have Hallmark movies. If you want to see typical straight woman taste, watch one of those. SC is a slightly less offensive version of a Hallmark movie.

Dan always looks dirty, like he needs a bath. The scruff look does not go well on him.

Can someone please explain the weird-ass getup that guy is wearing?

To be honest, that’s the single creepiest aspect of this video.

Found this comment on Reddit. Everyone else has noticed SC sucked after season 3. Like Dan writing that his sister (on the show) Twyla was always a millionaire. Fucking awful writing. Like she'd stay in a shit town if she was.

This show started brilliantly, but lost all of it's bite half way through.

I started Schitt's creek with an open mind and was massively surprised on how great it's initial, small town fish out of water comedy was.

But from about season 3 onwards, it became a cavalcade of supermodels getting in relationships with everyone else, wildly successful careers appearing out of thin air for every character , no fish out of water conflict at all with the characters and their setting (it pretty much ceases to be a small town).

It's really just Dan Levy wish fulfillment and characters doing their schtick in various scenarios that have little to nothing to do with small town life.

I mean...it was NEVER fall out of your chair funny, but I really loved the show. Look, everything falls apart after the third season. It just does. Some shows find their way back but the majority usually coast until they get to syndication numbers. I think this will be one of those shows that you watch a couple of years later and think that it's was better than you thought.

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[Quote] I think this will be one of those shows that you watch a couple of years later and think that it's was better than you thought.

Uh oh I thought you were going to say it was worse than you remember!

I thought it fell apart more in the last two seasons - definitely season 6. There were good parts of season 4 (Noah singing simply the best, the Alexis and Ted stuff) and season 5 (loved cabaret).

R209 Not everything. I have the Friends 10 season blu ray set but I gave away the first two discs that had seasons 1-4. I hated the first four seasons. I never laughed once in those seasons. Season 5 was still bad because it had that awful British cunt Emily. Fuck, did I hate that cunt. But it was only season 5 where Friends got funny. Then seasons 6-10 were its peak. Three's Company, too. I never cared for Suzanne Somers. Gay men cared nothing for her tits and so-called jiggle TV. She just never gelled with me. Season 5 with Cindy was my fave season. Then seasons 6-8 were consistently funny with Ritter's physical comedy front and center.

I think there's some merit to the idea that the women's storylines didn't get the attention they deserved. It was pretty standard stuff: getting pregnant, getting the job you lost back, and succeeding at the business you've been running through the run of the show. Normal everyday sitcom stuff.

That said, it seemed like the point of SC was to have the David storyline also be treated as normal everyday sitcom stuff, and that in itself was somewhat revolutionary. And it was at first, but then it became overdone and took over the whole show and they lost the plot.

Dan Levy has said that in interviews. That he wanted to normalize the homos and have no homophobia. But he failed in the end because he put his unattractive boring self front and center for the last 3 years. As others have said, both he and the Patrick dude have the least acting ability/charisma to carry a show. Alexis, Stevie, Jocelyn, and Moira were superior actresses and were totally wasted, especially Alexis. She had nothing to show for her growth in the last episode. And the SL with Ted went nowhere, ultimately signifying nothing.

Isn’t this just like us to pick apart an uber successful show with too many industry awards to count and a syndication deal. But yes, Dan Levy is an intolerable cunt.

And yet not one Canadian ‘ho on this entire site has had the hairy Mary ass of dan levy IRL.

That’s the great takeaway of all of this if you ask me.

Hairy Mary ass of Dan Levy! Love it. Game of Thrones was also super successful and look how they fucked it up in the last season because they had no books to steal from. I never watched an episode of that but the media would not shut up about it.

Seriously: can someone explain that weird outfit he’s wearing?!?

Can anybody explain most of the shit he wore on the show?

Dan should stick to writing. Even though there are problems with SC, he showed talent. For a first timer, bravo!

Maybe he has body image issues, given that almost every outfit consisted of an oversized black sweatshirt.

The Chevy Chase Show is worse than this. But, yeah, brutal.

R208. damn! I’m still on season 2 and loving it.. sucks to hear it goes down hill quickly

R217 I think he’s a frigid bitch

r219/220 It's couture, darling, couture!

r224 It doesn't - ignore the haters are just carry on enjoying.

"Dan Levin is better than him at least"

I'll say..

Puke! He is on the list of sexiest men alive this year. I could not post the link.

I knew a guy like Dan that dressed in couture all the time or pretty close- it was sort of a statement and though it seemed queeny, he had lots of admirers!

The issue with Dan is that dressing in Dior or Gucci wouldn’t really “pop” like the ridiculous outfits he wears on the show.

He’s like the gay man version of a on AbFab.

I couldn’t watch past the first 15 seconds in that clip.

R230 maybe he needs to be the 21st century a?

He’s doing ads for Canada’s version of Verizon like a madman

R230 / R232 David Rose is clearly inspired by Edina (just as Moira is inspired by Patsy) and, just like in Ab Fab, the clothes are often used for comic effect where they have been chosen for their incongruity. Dan Levy spoke in an interview about how he wanted to find the most inappropriate outfit for David when he stays with the Amish family, for instance, going with the Helmut Lang mohawk hooded sweater.

This seems to be a show in which the frenetic delivery is what’s supposed to be funny. It isn’t. There are no good comedies anymore because social norms have collapsed. What are we supposed to be laughing at in the clip? Certainly not two flaming homosexuals: Now it’s just jackasses making funny faces and funny noises while saying naughty words with scatological overtones. The can only manage grotesque.

^They

R235 What the actual fuck? Not one thing you said is true. There is no "frenetic" delivery. It is a standard single camera sitcom with no jump cuts and camera going everywhere for seconds at a time. Social norms have not collapsed. They are pushing a pretty clear agenda. OP's clip is not "supposed to be funny". It is a gross attempt at Dan Levy trying to woo Patrick back after he dumped him. It is supposed to be sexy/seductive and it is not. Patrick is in no way a "flaming homosexual". He is a boring cliched white bread character with zero personality. He is Dan Levy's wish fulfillment of having a white bread husband. Nobody on the show makes funny faces or noises. They are actors acting out a script. And I have never seen a scat reference in SC, ever. "The can only manage grotesque". I have no fucking idea what that means.

[R237] So this is a seduction scene? One man is trying to "win back" the other? That's how you see it? This is how two men in a relationship relate to each other? You're deluded. You sound like one of the show's shitty writers. OP isolated the scene because it is indeed painful - both the material and the performances. The body language doesn't agree with what you claim the scene's intent is. Dan Levy is not playing off the reactions of the guy in the chair - it's not an conversation. The sitting actor has an impossible job and the blocking makes it worse. It's particularly painful that he's been told to smile and react as if it's all very amusing when it's not. Dan Levy doesn't even appear to be playing a character here. It's just amateurish, buffoonish, "look at me" shenanigans that wouldn't rate a second look on TikTok. He's awful.

R238 I wasn't defending what the guy said but obviously it's supposed to be sexy/seductive. They just broke up and Levy stole the song Patrick sang to him and made a mockery of the whole original intent. I would never defend Dan Levy but I have watched the whole series and know what the fuck I am talking about. And for all you stupid fucks saying it was meant to be cringey, you're fucking brain dead.

The show is fun. And while that scene isn’t one of my favorites there are a lot of really funny bits.

Yeah and none of them have anything to do with Dan Levy r240.

Dan being on the 50 most beautiful list is living proof that he has a great publicist and that the list is a joke.

It’s always been a joke. Why is the sexiest man alive a actor? I’ve seen men at working at Starbucks better looking.

Is he a bossy bottom?

No, he’s just BOSSY.

R224 thanks for the advice - I’ve kept watching it and think it’s great! There’s actual story profession and or scratches deeper than just the surface (which could possibly be why some of these vapid homos didn’t like it after that)