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Big Mistakes review – Schitt’s Creek creator Dan Levy excels in new cringe comedy
He plays a pastor on the run from a gang in this dysfunctional family sitcom. The cast is ace, with Taylor Ortega as the hilarious sister – and it has a blindsiding twist
There are, broadly speaking, two types of television shows: the ones that make stars and the ones made by stars. The former includes the ensemble productions that turn unknowns into household names – Bridgerton, Euphoria, Industry – as well as the labour-of-love projects that make their camera-ready creators scalding-hot industry property (Fleabag, I May Destroy You, Baby Reindeer). Schitt’s Creek, Dan Levy’s sitcom about a once-wealthy family forced to slum it in a dingy motel in the arse end of nowhere, belongs firmly in this category. Levy, 42, did have something of a leg-up in the entertainment world – he co-created the show with his father, American Pie’s Eugene Levy, who also played the clan’s clueless patriarch – yet for all intents and purposes Schitt’s Creek was a grassroots success story, debuting in 2015 on Canadian network CBC before gradually becoming a global hit after it was picked up by Netflix a couple of years later.
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In only a handful of prominent roles, Dan Levy has developed a set of gestures so distinct you could recognize them at a thousand yards. One in particular involves tilting his head sideways and hunching up his shoulders, as if he is flinching at life. In Big Mistakes, his first new sitcom since the end of Schitt’s Creek, which he created and starred in with his father, Eugene Levy, his Nicky Dardano has a lot to flinch from. For one thing, he’s a pastor in a denomination that requires gay men to stay celibate, so even though he’s been sleeping with the church handyman (Jacob Gutierrez) for a year, he’s perennially anxious they’re going to get found out. For another, there’s his family, whose internet dynamics are a bottomless pool of discomfort. The Netflix series, which Levy created with I Love LA’s Rachel Sennott, opens midfrenzy, with his dying nonna screaming from a hospital bed and his mother, Linda (Laurie Metcalf), only adding to the din. Although Nicky and his sisters, Morgan (Taylor Ortega) and Natalie (Abby Quinn), are all in their 30s, their lives show no signs of settling down, and neither does the show, whose eight episodes hurtle forward with ceaseless velocity and end so abruptly it’s as if you’ve smashed into a wall.
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