So The Dark Crystal won’t be getting a second season. Such a well produced show. Sucks how so much was put into making such a unique series to get only one season.
JoshL
1847
Boooo!!! I loved that show, and so did my kids. Well, at least one of my kids.
orald
1848
We watched My Octopus Teacher Friday night to take our minds off of the awful news. It was entertaining and beautifully filmed.
Yeah, it’s a dumb name but it has some great footage of octopus behaviour.
kerzain
1851
The final season of Schitt’s Creek hits Netflix in a couple weeks on Oct. 7th.
Netflix, which already carries the first five seasons, will stream the final season starting Oct. 7
Comedy Central will also be airing the show.
Comedy Central will air all six seasons of “Schitt’s Creek” beginning Oct. 2, in a hardly surprising move given that fellow ViacomCBS property Pop TV aired the series in the U.S. The show’s Comedy Central schedule is pretty intense, as the cabler has scheduled five episodes per week every Friday.
wisefool
1852
I liked the first couple of seasons of La Casa de Papel.
Schitt’s seemed annoying. Vapid rich people. Watched a few, couldn’t get into it.
Same here. Tried it. Not my preferred type of comedy.
kerzain
1854
I felt exactly the same way after the first 2-3 episodes, and even complained about it here in this thread somewhere. But the characters are each on their own path, and it’s very much worth watching their journeys. I don’t want to spoil the show, but after having seen the first five seasons I’d consider the series a must see.
Sonoftgb
1855
Yeah, what started as a reboot of Green Acres found it’s groove about halfway through the first season and really developed nicely.
Plus Chris Elliot
I only stuck with Schitt’s Creek because so many people insisted it got better. And it does. Reminiscent of Parks and Recreation in that way and quite a few others.
The Chris Elliot quotient drops to tolerable levels after episode 2 as well, which helps.
The characters in Schitt’s Creek almost go through reverse Flanderization, well most of them anyways.
I didn’t like the character in the movie. Not sure why I’d watch a series about her after all these years. I didn’t watch Hannibal either, though, so maybe I’m an outlier.
That doesn’t really work for me as a recommendation, since I couldn’t watch Park and Rec either. I just detest cringe comedy.
Re. Parks and Rec: did you make it into the second season? Season 1 (6 episodes) is basically an extended pilot, and since they were originally going for a variation of The Office, it’s definitely cringey. But they develop their signature tone in Season 2.
Schitt’s Creek is kind of like that, except they find their feet quicker (and Chris Elliot’s schtick is “relentlessly annoying” rather than cringey).
Banzai
1863
I have had the same response to parks and rec and never got past the first few episodes. So I should just start both series in season 2?
I feel like Schitts Creek started to figure things out sometime mid-late season 1. For me it was the 2 kids that felt way to over the top for me early on but they toned it back a bit as it went on. Of course, it could have just been that I got used to them.
Parks and Rec season 2 gets really strong with episode 4 “Practice Date” (guest starring the now disgraced Louis CK, if that matters) and pretty much runs the table from there on out. I’d start there if you bounced off season 1 but are of a mind to give it another try. If it works for you, at some point you’ll want to try S1E6 “Rock Show,” which closed out the short first season with some great moments.
Yeah, the consensus with Schitt’s Creek seems to be “somewhere halfway through season 1.” I can’t remember the exact point it clicked for me, but I want to say it was around episode 6. It was a combination of getting used to Moira, seeing some new dimensions to the kids, and realizing that Roland wasn’t going to be all that central.
