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The two-lane road gets enough traffic that local police have to close it off for each take.
Every time the police released traffic between takes, cars slowed to a snails pace as they drove past.
Several of them rolled down their windows, yelling, We love youSchitts Creek!
and, because it was June, Happy Pride!
Weve come a long way from season one.
Its true in more ways than one.
The residents of Schitts Creek seemed buffoonish and unintelligent.
But in the intervening years, everything aboutSchitts Creekhas grown warmer.
The Rose family has become a bedrock of supportive love for one another and the community.
It may even have enough momentum to overtakea crowded comedy fieldat the Emmys this year.
It had already been a long day.
Each needed to hit the shows trademark bulls-eye between sweetness and silliness.
It required a classicSchittsCreekbalancing act.
On the page, it could read as devastating.
In the truest sense, its a drama that happens to be funny, Dan explained.
Its a challenge that appeared again later in the afternoon.
The rest of the family and their friends wait by the motel impatiently, wondering how it went.
This funding is Moiras ticket out of the town, and shes incredibly anxious.
He played the moment as a joke, acting as though the team had failed.
Then one of his thick black eyebrows slowly rose upward.
His mouth tilted into a smile, and everyone cheered, relieved.
But something felt off.
Eugenes slowly levitating eyebrow was fantastic, but it felt a touch cruel.
The poignancy of the reveal needed to change.
Dan walked over to his father between takes and spoke to him briefly.
Its less funny, but its more tender where it matters.
Its something the Levys have been asked about regularly, since the early days of the show.
The answers on late-night talk shows, in panels and profiles tend to circle around the same few anecdotes.
On set, its clear they respect one another.
Hes like a dance mom, Dan told me.
He cant help it.
Im not a parent, so I cant understand that level of enthusiasm for your kids.
Its easy to see how Eugene and Dan can work together so smoothly.
They operate on different wavelengths.
Will you give a speech tomorrow?
I asked Dan, as he sat in his trailer.
he said, pulling a face.
Everyone knows how I feel.
Ill be a blubbering mess all day.
I leave that to [Eugene]; hes far more composed.
Im more of an email guy.
Its the kind of show that elicits essays about how its depiction of queer lovehas changed peoples lives.
They saw each others flaws, and sincerely celebrated each others achievements.
There are almost no politics.
There is classism inSchitts Creek, but its edges and contours have been shaved and reshaped.
Snobbery comes hand in hand with goofiness.
Exclusionary aesthetics often get punctured when someone points out how useless they are.
Theyre vestigial organs no one wants to let go of.
Its Jane Austenesque in its insularity.
This is part of the politics-free fantasy: This idea that its a place mostly free from external prejudice.
Its a blank slate.
That was always the intention.
