Let’s face it: we’re obsessed with celebrities. With the advent of social media, we want to know where they’re going, what they’re up to, and (god forbid) how they respond to the latest scandal.

In the age of the Kardashians it’s hard to imagine celebrities as anything other than their carefully perfected public personas. Schitt’s Creek, a Canadian series created in 2015 by father and son team Eugene and Dan Levy, aims to bring that notion crashing down.

Let the trailer for season 1 of Schitt’s Creek set the scene for you. Video courtesy of PopTV on YouTube.

The show is centered around a wealthy family who is defrauded of their fortune except for one asset: a small Midwestern town called Schitt’s Creek that they forgot they even bought in the first place.

Out of options, Johnny Rose (Eugene Levy) a former video rental tycoon and his wife, Moira (Catherine O’Hara), a soap opera star, and their two children, David (Dan Levy) and Alexis (Anne Murphy) are forced to move to Schitt’s Creek until they can sell it. The show focuses on how they manage to function both away from their lives of luxury and with each other.

Alexis and David have a great sibling dynamic. Courtesy of Schitt’s Creek on GIPHY.

Schitt’s Creek is a fantastic mixture of good writing, excellent casting and a lot of heart. It’s reminiscent of Parks and Recreation in the sense that it has a revolving cast of townspeople that are very set in their beliefs, but it still manages to tackle more serious issues in a lighthearted way (see the wine label conversation about David’s sexuality). This show brings something new to the table by dropping the Rose family in the middle of it all, wildly misinformed as they may be.

At the beginning of the series, for instance, David thinks minimum wage is about $45 an hour. Moira creates a complicated spread sheet of where all of her wigs when she moves into her motel room (because Christy and Robin don’t like each other, obviously).

Get a behind-the-scenes look at the many wigs Moira wears throughout the show. Video courtesy of Variety on YouTube.

After a while, the family is humbled by the reality that their time in Schitt’s Creek may be more than temporary. They are forced to work with their skills they have left from their former lives in order to get back on their feet. While it may be difficult for them, the town’s residents are more than willing to help. The Roses learn how to be better people and a better family as a result. That’s exactly the kind of sentiment that we need this holiday season.

The first five seasons of Schitt’s Creek are available on Netflix and PopTV. The sixth and final season premieres in January 2020 on CBC.