'Schitt's Creek' pulls off feel-good 2020 Emmys sweep we need
LA Times“Schitt’s Creek,” TV’s little engine that could, did. The first hour of Sunday’s telecast was essentially a tribute to “Schitt’s Creek,” which swept the prime-time comedy series awards with seven wins. “I guess it’s kind of ironical that the straightest role I’ve ever played lands me an Emmy for a comedy performance,” Eugene Levy wisecracked while accepting his lead actor prize. Love is just love in “Schitt’s Creek,” whose series arc leads toward the wedding of David and his boyfriend, Patrick ; Pop celebrated the final season with a Sunset Boulevard billboard of them kissing. As Dan Levy said in his speech upon the series’ completion of the sweep, “Our show at its core is about the transformational effects of love and acceptance, and that is something that we need more of now than we’ve ever needed before.” The productive upshot of all this approval was to empower Dan Levy and his writers to go deep and take emotional risks.