If you were one of those people still holding out hope for a Schitt’s Creek sequel, yeah, this one is rough. Dan Levy has now said it is not happening, even though he had been thinking about it before Catherine O’Hara died earlier this year.
What Dan Levy said about the Schitt’s Creek sequel
During an emotional CBS Sunday Morning interview, Levy went back to Goodwood, Ontario, where Schitt’s Creek was filmed, and admitted he had been considering some kind of follow-up.
But when it came to whether it could still happen now, his answer was pretty blunt. “No. Not now. You can’t.” He also got emotional talking about being back there, saying, “It’s tough; it’s tough being back,” and that the town brought back “a lot of memories” with Catherine O’Hara.
That is the part that really gets you. Because this was not just fans asking the same reunion question for the hundredth time and getting the usual “maybe someday” answer.
He flat-out said he was thinking about it. So the idea was actually there. There really was a point where more Schitt’s Creek was on his mind. Then Catherine died in January, and that was basically the end of it.
And honestly, if you love that show, it makes total sense. Moira Rose was not just another character in the mix. She was Moira Rose. You cannot fake that energy, you cannot replace that weirdness, and you definitely cannot do a sequel and act like that loss would not be hanging over the whole thing.
Levy seems to know that better than anyone, which is probably why this feels less like a business decision and more like him just being honest about what the show is without her. Fans online pretty much had the same reaction. Over on Reddit, one of the top comments was literally, “Yeah, there’s no way. Catherine was the glue. You couldn’t do it now.”
Another fan said, “Because you can’t. You just can’t. I’d have absolutely LOVED a sequel. But without Moira, there is no show.” That is basically where everyone is right now. Sad, but not confused.
Levy has been talking about her a lot in the past week, too. On The Tonight Show, he called O’Hara “the greatest” and “irreplaceable” and said the one thing that gave him comfort was seeing how loved she was by everyone. So when he says a sequel cannot happen now, it does not sound like PR talk. It sounds like he means it.
So yeah, that little dream is probably dead. Fans wanted one more trip back, one more family disaster, one more Moira moment that made absolutely no sense and somehow still felt genius. But if Schitt’s Creek is really done, this is probably the only way it should be.
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