Dan Levy can’t resist a family in crisis. His first series, which he co-created with his father Eugene Levy, was Schitt’s Creek, a Canadian comedy that became an international sensation. One of the greatest examples of sneakily profound comfort viewing, it was a story of a family facing a major transition after their once successful video-rental business came crashing down.
Levy’s extremely watchable new series, co-created with Rachel Sennott (I Love LA), is sort of like if everything in Schitt’s Creek was cranked up to 11. In Big Mistakes, one inciting incident—the theft of a necklace in a gift shop—leads siblings Nicky (Dan Levy) and Morgan (Taylor Ortega) into the wild world of drug trafficking. It’s more like they’re dragged into it in a series of increasingly ridiculous events that are somehow just believable enough to keep things running smoothly.
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