A classic sleeper success story, Schitt’s Creek swept this year’s
Emmys, taking home nine awards. Here are just some of the things that make it so great
Catherine O’Hara is one of the best comic actors around and she does not disappoint in this role. Her matriarch Moira is simply one of the best characters to ever appear on screen, from her wigs to her dauntless self-centredness, but the true masterstroke is her accent. Described by one character as “unrecognisable”, it has been the subject of countless think pieces: it’s been labelled “one part British/Canadian/mid-Atlantic with a retro
Hollywood spin”; it is sprinkled with “a kind of unhinged verbosity”; and is frankly just plain “bonkers”. Her verbose and outlandish pronouncements are pure joy.