I think it took us, like, a month longer than we had intended to actually write this show, because every episode involved decisions that we had to make that were permanent. We talked at length in our writers room about every possible scenario. When you were deciding the endings for each character, did you have other options? Like, did you consider David and Patrick moving somewhere else too? It was probably the biggest twist we’ve ever had in the show and then to see Twyla trending across North America warms my cold, dead heart. So for her, she chose to separate who she was financially from who she was as a person, which was the message of the show, really. And this was important to that plot twist - Twyla was aware that everything changes when people become privy to having come into that kind of money. It’s funny because people were like, “why wouldn’t she pay for this?” and “why wouldn’t she pay for that?” I’m like, “Did you watch the episode?” I think it was important to show that money was of very little importance to her to the point where Alexis had to actually just say, like, “you can spend it.” In researching lottery winners, a lot of them wish they never had won the lottery a lot of the time.
You played with the idea of what it means to have money with the Twyla twist in this season, where she’d actually won millions of dollars in the lottery. 'Schitt's Creek' Tells Fans Not to Visit Filming Location Amid Coronavirus And that’s why they’re expressing themselves in these ways. So yeah, it was always intentional that there be a glimmer of inherent likability to these people, that they not be mean, that they’d be scared or upset or sad. But I think that’s what the whole show was playing on, too - was showing the 1 percent realizing that money only goes so far when it comes to love, and when it comes to family, and what that actually means. How much empathy people have toward millionaires is a whole other story. Johnny Rose was someone who made his money from the ground up, and it got taken away from him.
And that was really important from the very beginning, to show that these weren’t criminals. They lost their money because someone took advantage of them. They did not lose their money because they were bad people. These are people who had experienced a tremendous amount of trauma. For us in terms of revealing who these characters were, it was important to really be aware of the humanity behind them as well, as silly as they might be at times. Exposing how people react under fear and under pressure and under anxiety and under trauma, that’s really interesting to me. Having dimension as a character is interesting. That if people are acting slightly insensitively, that it was rooted in something deeper than just being a mean person. It was always our intention that it not be meanness. That seems like an important part of the DNA of the show too. It’s always more difficult to write comedy about happy things, but I do feel in the case of this show that that hard work paid off, I have to hope.
It felt like any other option would have really undermined the intention of the show. I think in the same way that we chose not to show prejudice or bigotry or homophobia in the show, it was really important for us that we show that the growth that these characters went through, that the the level of acceptance and love that was shown to our characters throughout these six seasons by the townspeople and vice versa, be really celebrated and rewarded with a happy ending. No, it was built into the entire premise of the show - support and love only make people better, healthier, happier, more joyful people.
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