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"If there's a story that feels like it needs to be told down the line — if there's a Christmas episode or a movie — then we'll do it."
We are six years in and sadly, the end of Schitt's Creek has come. (Fun fact: Today is the sixth year anniversary of the show's first day of filming.) We have fallen in love with the Rose family with all their quirks. We've even fallen in love with the sleepy, but equally as quirky town of Schitt's Creek, mostly through their eyes. But now, we must bid all of that adieu tonight. In an interview released on the eve of the finale, show creator and star Dan Levy revealed why the end had to come when it did.
"It was a strange day to post the announcement that the show was ending," Levy said in a video posted to the official Schitt's Creek Instagram account as a part of an ongoing series the television series has been airing. "It felt at the time like well, we can't go back on it once it's out there. I knew it was coming for a year but I never imagined the day that it would happen." That announcement came in March of 2019.
Other castmembers called the announcement and subsequent filming of the final season "emotional" and "bittersweet." Emily Hampshire, who plays Stevie Bud on the show, admitted to crying on the plane headed to set. Unlike the majority of the successful shows before it, Schitt's was exiting on an undeniable high.
"I always thought that the minute that I had to question would an extra season change that, would we run out of stories?" Levy said of choosing when to call it quits.
"Would we potentially find some of our characters flatlining in terms of where we could we take them? When that came I had to end it because I would never want to find myself putting something out there for the fans, for the viewers, that I didn't love."
And it's that dedication to quality that has stoked such a fervor among viewers. But there's some hope.
"I think, maybe to keep myself from not falling apart, I tell myself that if there's a story that feels like it needs to be told down the line -- if there's a Christmas episode or a movie -- then we'll do it," Levy said, reiterating a point he made in an earlier Variety cover story. "The great thing about the show is that nobody is leaving here because they want to, we are rapping this up because we have to."
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Mikelle is the former editorial director of digital for PrideMedia, guiding digital editorial and social across Out, The Advocate, Pride.com, Out Traveler, and Plus. After starting as a freelancer for Out in 2013, he joined the staff as Senior Editor working across print and digital in 2018. In early 2021 he became Out's digital director, marking a pivot to content that centered queer and trans stories and figures, exclusively. In September 2021, he was promoted to editorial director of PrideMedia. He has written cover stories on Ricky Martin, Miss Fame, Nyle DiMarco, Jeremy O. Harris, Law Roach, and Symone.
Mikelle is the former editorial director of digital for PrideMedia, guiding digital editorial and social across Out, The Advocate, Pride.com, Out Traveler, and Plus. After starting as a freelancer for Out in 2013, he joined the staff as Senior Editor working across print and digital in 2018. In early 2021 he became Out's digital director, marking a pivot to content that centered queer and trans stories and figures, exclusively. In September 2021, he was promoted to editorial director of PrideMedia. He has written cover stories on Ricky Martin, Miss Fame, Nyle DiMarco, Jeremy O. Harris, Law Roach, and Symone.
