When Noah Reid's character Patrick Brewer was introduced in the third season of the highly celebrated Canadian comedy Schitt's Creek (nine Emmy wins last year), viewers no doubt wondered if the kind, understated and disarming business consultant, who was also closeted, could survive the lunacy that is life in the Creek, much less stoke a romantic spark he felt for the cluelessly affected and self-absorbed budding entrepreneur David Rose (series co-creator Dan Levy).
The casting and storyline was a calculated risk that paid off; that spark turned into an inferno among Creek chat room fanatics, both queer and straight, who pulled for the couple and, by extension, David's transformation from a wounded warrior scarred by big city romance into someone open to happiness and fulfillment.
Noah Reid is a triple-threat (as the aging soap opera queen Moira Rose would aver) -- actor/singer/dancer -- and his reworking of Tina Turner's "Simply the Best" in the fourth season episode "Open Mic" was for many viewers a high point of the show's six seasons. It is a thoroughly engaging and tender moment that is wonderfully affirming.
Despite the utopian openness of little Schitt's Creek to the relationship of these two men, many fans, straight and queer, set aside cynicism and posted that everyone deserves a Patrick. Which is to say, everybody deserves to be valued and loved.
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