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\u201cT<\/span>he world is falling apart around us, and I\u2019m dying inside.\u201d <\/em>
– Moira Rose<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If there\u2019s one TV show that helped us get through the pandemic, it\u2019s Schitt\u2019s Creek<\/em><\/a>. After total domination at the Emmys, the endearing Canadian comedy series about a dysfunctional family who lands up in a town called Schitt\u2019s Creek after going bankrupt, is continuing its award season run at the Golden Globes. Catherine O’Hara won the Best Actress in a Television Series \u2013 Musical or Comedy for playing the hysterical Moira Rose and the show was also awarded the Best Television Series \u2013 Musical or Comedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of us who were up Schitt\u2019s Creek<\/em> most of 2020, took to the series in the last season after its modest start in 2015. The story of the riches-to-rags Rose family, an eccentric foursome who lose everything when their video rental stores go bust, struck a chord with the world under lockdown. The spoiled, sassy Roses are forced to retreat to a backwoods town they bought as a joke because of its absurd name (yep, Schitt\u2019s Creek) and live out of two rooms in a rundown motel. Any schadenfreude we might feel is short-lived, as patriarch Johnny, retired soap star Moira, and their adult children David and Alexis find themselves abandoned by their wealthy New York friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A feel-good show for dark times<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the series progresses, the Roses go from desperately grasping at their old lives to becoming part of the wider Schitt\u2019s Creek community. While retaining its laugh-out-loud hilarity, the family narrative delves deeper into heartwarming sincerity with each passing season, and it\u2019s no wonder fans fell for this ultimate feel-good show to tide them through troubled times. And yet, despite Schitt\u2019s Creek\u2019s glorious growth arc where David (played by writer\/creator Dan Levy) comes to the fore as its heart, there is a gateway drug that hooks you upfront: the wondrous, certifiably insane Moira Rose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moira Rose is ridiculous, but so genuine in her pain that she\u2019s impossible to mock completely.<\/blockquote><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s fitting that O’Hara channeled her inner Moira Rose during the Golden Globes acceptance speech. O\u2019Hara and her husband, production designer Bo Welch, attempted to recreate<\/a> an in-person awards ceremony and it was chaotic. As the actress started speaking, Welch played some fake applause and instrumental music on his phone, leaving everyone watching puzzled and reminding us why we simply can\u2019t get enough of Moira Rose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being Canadian, I was an early adopter of Schitt\u2019s Creek<\/em> and I\u2019d been hoping for this moment for five years, ever since I saw the outraged grande dame in the first episode. \u201cI\u2019ve been stripped of every morsel of pleasure I earned in this life!\u201d she wails, setting the stage for the endlessly quotable Moira-isms that are now the stuff of legendary memes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moira has a diverse and beloved collection of wigs that she has named; she totters around town in stilettos and fur hats with an enviable self-seriousness; and her bizarre accent has been the subject of countless think pieces and \u201cb\u00e9b\u00e9\u201d jokes. Her tour de force eccentricity is like nothing I\u2019ve seen since Gene Wilder\u2019s Willy Wonka<\/em>: a woman who lives so strenuously in a world of her own making that it becomes real, and now everyone else has to live in it too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moira is too self-absorbed to be an attentive mother<\/a>, too strong-willed to put her glory days as a TV star behind her, and too much in denial to ever accept that her lot is now to live in Schitt\u2019s Creek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Would Schitt\u2019s Creek have found its ardent fanbase without the genius of Moira Rose?<\/blockquote><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flawed but beloved<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite these glaring flaws, she never crosses into unlikeable territory. Yes, she\u2019s ridiculous, but so genuine that it\u2019s impossible to mock her completely. Her marriage to down-to-earth Johnny is often like chalk and cheese, when Moira insists on spending extravagant sums of money they don\u2019t have and refuses to cooperate with his well-meant plans. (\u201cBe careful John, lest you suffer vertigo from the dizzying heights of your moral ground!\u201d she warns.) Even when Moira drives him to his wits\u2019 end, she shows up as a supportive, if not uncomplaining, spouse and cares for him unconditionally. Moira is the Rose who has the longest way to go in coming to terms with Schitt\u2019s Creek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To watch her try is a singular treat. When Moira takes on a commercial for vintner Herb Ertlinger\u2019s fruit wines, desperate to earn some money for the family, the drunken tongue twisters that ensue are comedy gold. She swallows her pride and allows her daughter Alexis to coax her into doing soap opera fan conventions, and when her hysterically bad film, The Crows Have Eyes 3: The Crowening<\/em>, is shelved, Moira\u2019s heartbreak is shattering. O\u2019Hara\u2019s range is unparalleled, and to watch her at work as Moira is addictive. Would Schitt\u2019s Creek<\/em> have found its ardent fan base without the genius of Moira Rose? If you think so, you are blind to reality \u2013 and for that, Moira would be most proud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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