The 'Schitt’s Creek' cast covers ‘Variety’ and chats final season

Fans of Dan Levy and the rest of the Schitt’s Creek crew may be sad that after six seasons, an incredible number of wigs, and some major league fans (um, like Nicole Kidman, maybe!?), the series is coming to an end on April 7. But, before it does, the Canadian series is enjoying one last achievement for fans to be obsessed with: gracing the cover of Variety.In the April 1 cover, the four lead actors (Levy, his father Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara and Annie Murphy) are featured as black and white floating heads like The Beatles, with the appropriate caption, “The Fab Four.” Creator Dan Levy shared the cover with fans on March 31, teasing the big article release. “What a way to end this thing. Thank you, @variety, for putting a bunch of Canadians on your cover. Who’d have guessed?” he wrote.

 

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What a way to end this thing. Thank you, @variety, for putting a bunch of Canadians on your cover. Who’d have guessed? ?

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The Variety interview covers everything from how the show came about (no one  wanted south of the border wanted it at first), getting O’Hara on board (she wouldn’t shoot in the summer because, cottage life), and how Levy had two full seasons to end the series on his own terms when they got  a two-year renewal after season four. “I at no point wanted to compromise on quality or storytelling. It just didn’t feel like it was worth the risk to take it any further,” Levy tells the publication’s editor at large, Kate Aurthur.“The goal was at the end of this show, this family will realize the value of love,” he adds. “Money can temporarily bandage a lot of things. But they would never be able to buy the kind of closeness that they have by the end of the series.”[video_embed id=6050914210001']RELATED: Gigi Gorgeous celebrates Toronto Pride[/video_embed]Fittingly, the article also breaks down some of the many, many achievements the show celebrated over the course of 79 episodes. Things like Emmy nominations (four so far with more expected later this year), their live tour, and this past season’s promotional campaign, which includes Levy’s character David and his fiancé Patrick (Noah Reid) kissing on billboards on Sunset Boulevard and at bus stops across Canada.“I’ve been given a platform and an opportunity to put something like that out into the world, so why would I not? I’ve never seen it before,” Levy said in the interview, revealing that he and Reid visited one of those billboards together. “It was gigantic. And it was quite emotional.”For those who need a quick refresher, Schitt’s Creek kicked off on CBC in 2015. The story follows a wealthy family of four who loses everything except for a small town that the patriarch bought years ago as a joke, because of its name. It’s a story inspired by reality stars like the Kardashians and partially influenced by Kim Basinger’s own real-life purchase of a town in Georgia in 1989. Chris Elliott, Emily Hampshire, Jennifer Robertson and Dan’s sister, Sarah Levy, also star.Since the series hit Netflix, it has swelled in popularity, with stars like Carol Burnett, Jennifer Lawrence, Cameron Crowe, and Paul Rudd enthusiastically sharing how much they love the show, according to the Variety article. Meanwhile “A Little Bit Alexis,” the fictional theme song to Alexis’ (Murphy) single-season reality show, has been played in clubs around North America and even made an appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show when Kelly changed the lyrics to “A Little Bit Texas.”

 

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Levy, who now has a new deal with ABC Studios to make more content in the very near future, sums it all up as a run that he feels “very good” about. He hopes that the finale “sticks the landing” and that fans appreciate the ending, even if he didn’t take the show all the way to 100 episodes or pump out another season just because they all got popular. “It’s quantity over quality,” he adds.Surely. Now as fans everywhere prepare for the final goodbye, here’s hoping this cast reunites in the very near future. Even if it’s just to belt out “A Little Bit Alexis.”[video_embed id='1930879']BEFORE YOU GO: Steve Carell & John Krasinski reunite and talk ‘The Office’[/video_embed]