'Schitt's Creek': Is David's eagerness to leave going to fracture his relationship with Patrick?
Spoilers for 'Schitt's Creek' Season 6 Episode 12 'The Pitch'
Johnny Rose's (Eugene Levy) pitch meeting went well and his business plan is big enough for the Roses to be able to permanently leave Schitt's Creek behind.
It's been a long road getting here, but the Roses can finally leave behind everything they've had to put up with in the small town in the middle of Nowhere, America — but will Patrick Brewer (Noah Reid) be one of the people left behind as well?
While David Rose (Daniel Levy) voiced some concerns about the idea of leaving home, it wasn't long before he was making plans, committing to New York shows, and even planning out apartment decor with his sister before even asking the love of his life, and soon to be husband, if he even wanted a life in New York to begin with.
As we see this episode, the chain of joy that starts with Moira Rose (Catherine O'Hara) stops squarely at Patrick once he receives the news.
The title may be a little on the nose for a March review, but Patrick has been a saint. Dealing with David is far from an easy task, and although David has gone through some growth himself, Patrick has still shown a remarkable amount of patience in dealing with their relationship.
It seemed like the road to their wedding would avoid the curse that all TV show weddings go through — a major crisis that makes the engaged couple start to seriously question whether or not they should be married in the first place — at least, until now.
David's grown enough so that his selfishness is largely a character quirk than a flaw, but this move to New York may just be a step too far. It's plain that what hurts Patrick is not the idea of moving in and of itself. It's that David appears to have taken the idea for granted. Like small-town life was always just David's second choice.
Though Patrick is smart enough to know that David's feelings for the town aren't the same as David's feelings for him, the heart is rarely as logical. Patrick's putting on a brave face, but it's clear that he's hurt by all this, and David's too busy celebrating his New York plans to notice.
If there's one thing that's been constant when it comes to David, it's his high standards. It's rare that anything is good enough for him — his wedding venue, wedding pictures, bachelor party, and that's just this season.
Though he's refrained from saying it, he's always acted like Schitt's Creek is beneath him, just for being the small town that it is. The thing is, Patrick is very much a small-town man.
He's taken David's small-town jibes in stride, but it's one thing to complain about one's life, everyone does that, but it's another thing to abandon it entirely at the merest hint that that's an option.
Patrick is a wonderful man, and he should not be anyone's second choice. The life he has with David in Schitt's Creek is one he genuinely loves with all his heart.
David doesn't seem to realize how much his instant rejection of that life is a slap in the face of everything Patrick thought he and David were building together. This is a serious problem that needs to be addressed and with the wedding growing closer and closer, time is running out fast.
The next episode of 'Schitt's Creek' airs on March 31 on Pop TV.