That Schitt’s Creek is more than a show for its fans is evident, when initially-hesitant, “I am not sure I have enough to share with you”, turn into half-hour conversations with little need for prodding. For a show that first aired on January 15, 2013, and wrapped up in April 2020, after six seasons and nine Emmy awards in 2020, the popularity in India, interestingly surged during the lockdown.

Says 30-year-old communications professional Rishitu Amarnani, “I think during the lockdown, people wanted positivity in their life, a cuddle, some warmth and the show gave that.” Amarnani completed the show, and all its six seasons some time in May 2020, when Mumbai was still in the throes of the COVID-19 lockdown. The show, created by Candanian actor, writer, director and producer duo Dan Levy and his father Eugene Levy, available on Netflix, stars Catherine O’Hara (Home Alone fame) and Anne Murphy. It’s the story of a rich American family whose life will remind you much of the Kardashians, that loses everything and has to move to a small town called Schitt’s Creek and, live in a run-down motel. Amarnani says, the show—the heart of the story is that all its characters are essentially nice people—helped him a lot. “I was not in a great space during the initial phase of the lockdown and felt so hopeful by the end of the show that I sought conversations around it.”