The striking thing about Schitt’s Creek is in how writing this quick and smart — and performances as finely calibrated as these — exist on a show without cynicism, crudeness, glibness, or the kind of tortured darkness that has come to define what we consider “great” comedy. It’s masterful comedy that exists in a happy world.

This interesting program offers some insight on some of the major issues the United States is currently grappling with, including those relating to race, class, gender, and sexual orientation

Poe’s feature debut, though, has a style all its own, spare but rich and able to make the umpteenth teen movie we’ve all seen feel fresh.

Decker’s filmmaking is often dreamlike, but her storytelling has a cruel bite of reality to it — just as Jackson’s writing did decades before.