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Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: The Story of Schitt's Creek by Dan Levy, Eugene Levy
emotional
funny
reflective
5.0
I'm breaking my rule about not writing reviews for nonfiction because this book deserves all the praise.
Major props to Dan and Eugene for putting together, without a doubt, the best book I've ever read about a piece of media. I've had books on the illustration for my favorite animated films, books on how they created characters for a video game, books about recipes from a TV show, etc. But nothing has ever come close to the quality and heart that's in this book.
I watched all of Schitt's Creek in the span of a couple of months. I was late to the party, watching it in 2021, but after so many people recommended it to me based on my other favorite shows, I gave in - and immediately fell in love. I persuaded my husband to start it while I was still halfway through season 4, which meant that while I was wrapping up my binge sesh, I was simultaneously starting it all over again with him. And this meant that I basically watched it two times in a row, without a single break in between. Then I watched the documentary twice.
Never have I ever felt so emotionally connected and invested in a TV show. Around our house, Schitt's Creek is basically a lifestyle. We use the jokes in our everyday conversation, we dressed up as characters for Halloween (I was David Rose in the field - DIY'd my own Helmut Lang hoodie - and my husband was the cheese IYKYK), we recommend it to everyone we know, and we cry over the same episodes together.
Reading this book was like watching the show all over again, but with a totally fresh perspective. While I got to relive some of my favorite moments and learn a little more about the behind-the-scenes (some of which I knew, some of which I learned from the first time) - I also got a chance to really feel the cast's emotions as they put together this incredible show. Not only that, but there was such attention to detail. From pages and pages of David's iconic sweaters or Moira's wigs to the reason why they filmed certain scenes the way they did to a map of all of Alexis's escapades based purely on her mentioning random things she did across the globe. I just couldn't get enough.
I read this book over the span of a little over a week. It wasn't a long book and I'm a quick reader, but I was really intentional with how I read it, taking time to sit and fully immerse myself in it. My husband can attest to the fact that I teared up on multiple occasions while I read it - and there were plenty of times where I just began to read aloud certain passages because he absolutely had to know what I'd learned. I was also laughing along the way at the fantastic memories that the cast shared throughout.
Needless to say, if you're a Schitt's Creek fan, this is an absolute must-read. I could seriously talk about it all day.
Major props to Dan and Eugene for putting together, without a doubt, the best book I've ever read about a piece of media. I've had books on the illustration for my favorite animated films, books on how they created characters for a video game, books about recipes from a TV show, etc. But nothing has ever come close to the quality and heart that's in this book.
I watched all of Schitt's Creek in the span of a couple of months. I was late to the party, watching it in 2021, but after so many people recommended it to me based on my other favorite shows, I gave in - and immediately fell in love. I persuaded my husband to start it while I was still halfway through season 4, which meant that while I was wrapping up my binge sesh, I was simultaneously starting it all over again with him. And this meant that I basically watched it two times in a row, without a single break in between. Then I watched the documentary twice.
Never have I ever felt so emotionally connected and invested in a TV show. Around our house, Schitt's Creek is basically a lifestyle. We use the jokes in our everyday conversation, we dressed up as characters for Halloween (I was David Rose in the field - DIY'd my own Helmut Lang hoodie - and my husband was the cheese IYKYK), we recommend it to everyone we know, and we cry over the same episodes together.
Reading this book was like watching the show all over again, but with a totally fresh perspective. While I got to relive some of my favorite moments and learn a little more about the behind-the-scenes (some of which I knew, some of which I learned from the first time) - I also got a chance to really feel the cast's emotions as they put together this incredible show. Not only that, but there was such attention to detail. From pages and pages of David's iconic sweaters or Moira's wigs to the reason why they filmed certain scenes the way they did to a map of all of Alexis's escapades based purely on her mentioning random things she did across the globe. I just couldn't get enough.
I read this book over the span of a little over a week. It wasn't a long book and I'm a quick reader, but I was really intentional with how I read it, taking time to sit and fully immerse myself in it. My husband can attest to the fact that I teared up on multiple occasions while I read it - and there were plenty of times where I just began to read aloud certain passages because he absolutely had to know what I'd learned. I was also laughing along the way at the fantastic memories that the cast shared throughout.
Needless to say, if you're a Schitt's Creek fan, this is an absolute must-read. I could seriously talk about it all day.