Top 7 Moments of "Schitt's Creek" S6 Ep4: "Maid of Honor"

It looks like the two biggest social events of the year are a go for Schitt's Creek, with David and Patrick already picking out tuxedos for their wedding, and Moira's movie The Crows Have Eyes III: The Crowening about to drop any day now. Alexis is in her element managing PR for the movie and already has specific plans for David's wedding party, and what Alexis wants Alexis usually gets. Then there's Stevie's decision to leave her job at the Rosebud Motel and go travel the world as a flight attendant — a career move that doesn't go quite as expected. 

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As David and Patrick get ready to pick out Patrick's wedding suit, Alexis jumps right in as David's maid of honor — a role she's got a pretty strong claim to, since she was the first person to encourage their relationship. "You did it! You manifested your wedding and I'm like literally stunned," she tells her brother. "Think of all the people on the planet who find someone, somehow you're one of those people."

Small problem, though — back when Alexis was supposed to be gone for six months, David asked Stevie to be his maid of honor and she agreed. But when Alexis finds out that Stevie kind of shrugged her way into it, she decides she'll just swoop in and take that job off her hands, like she's doing Stevie a favor. She's so casual and confident about it, you have to wonder exactly how many times she's pulled this off. 

I'd have some objections about this sneaky plot if I wasn't completely distracted by the idea of Alexis wearing the green dress from Atonement as her maid of honor look. Damn.

So, Stevie challenging David to compete with her for the flight attendant job in last week's episode is starting to make more sense. Uncertain about Larry Air to begin with, she freaks out and quits when she discovers it's a lawsuit-ridden airline that will only take her as far as South Dakota, and they were going to put her on a real flight when she'd barely started training. Now she finds herself unemployed in her thirties, with nothing to show for her short-lived adventure but an outdated stewardess uniform.

I suspect some viewers might consider this whole Larry Air plot a waste of time, but I don't think so. Until now, nearly every leap of faith we've seen on the show has paid off, career-wise; Alexis has been a natural at her new PR company, and David and Patrick quickly found each other and made steady progress with Rose Apothecary ever since. This is the first time we've really seen someone take a big risk that goes nowhere, an experience my generation knows all too well. (The job that brought me to Los Angeles turned out to be a dud that took years to recover from, so when Stevie slumped in her chair and muttered "What am I doing?" I felt that in my bones.)

Now the only question is, how does Stevie get her bright future back on track? We only have ten episodes left. 

I guess you can't please everybody. Moira's excitement over the Crows trailer gets significantly dampened when Jocelyn can't come up with anything nicer to say about it than "It's a real movie!" You know how it is with creative types: no matter how much praise they get for their pet project, if one friend doesn't like it, that'll be the thing that sticks with them all day. And this is Moira we're talking about, so multiply that by a thousand or so.

Fortunately it turns out Jocelyn wants to be supportive but just can't handle horror movies. (Girl, same.) To make up for it, she writes a review of the trailer for what I'm guessing is the local paper, featuring the line "Yes, there will be blood — and yes, you will be horror-struck!" It's exactly what Moira needs to hear, and it also sounds exactly like something I would write and I want to read the whole thing immediately. Hook me up, Interflix account!

Moira and Jocelyn really seem like close friends after working on Cabaret together, by the way.  It's lovely to see.