Dan Levy Talks ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Follow-Up ‘Big Mistakes’ for Netflix
Rachel Sennott and Dan Levy attend a ‘Big Mistakes’ tastemaker event at Max and Helen’s in Los Angeles on March 30, 2026.
(Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Netflix)
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What’s the opposite of a mistake? That’s what Netflix pulled off Monday night by taking over L.A.’s hottest restaurant, Max & Helen’s on Larchmont Avenue, for an intimate introduction of the streamer’s new crime comedy series Big Mistakes.
A typical wait to snag a table at the neighborhood diner by Nancy Silverton and Phil Rosenthal still stretches well past an hour (if not closer to two) but with Netflix taking over the host stand for the private tastemakers event, influencers, stars and select press glided through the door only to sprint toward a generous spread of Max & Helen standouts on the diner counter. The menu featured grilled cheese, tallow fries, sourdough waffles with maple butter, beef hot dogs, BLTs, cinnamon rolls and Silverton’s famous chocolate chip cookies, some with custom names to match the show’s characters and plot (like Trusted Accomplices, Sweet Regrets and Pour Decisions).
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Bites aside, the main attraction was a delicious conversation between creators Dan Levy and Rachel Sennott, but even they acknowledged the feat of grabbing a seat. “Guys, how happy are we that we all finally got in here?” Sennott asked in kicking off the nearly 40-minute chat before praising the waffle while Levy called the grilled cheese one of the best he’s ever had in front of a crowd that included Dylan Efron, Grimes, Kerri Kenney-Silver, Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin, Natasha Lyonne, Sarah Levy, Zoe Lister-Jones and others.
Though they shared duties on creating the show, Sennott was tasked with moderating the Q&A and asking Levy about how he pulled off show running, executive producing and starring in the eight episode series, which marks his first under an overall deal with Netflix for his Not a Real Production Company. But Big Mistakes marks his second original scripted series after Schitt’s Creek, the cultural phenomenon that lasted six seasons and won four Emmys at the 2020 ceremony including best comedy series.
Big Mistakes follows Nicky (Levy) and Morgan (Taylor Ortega), two “deeply incapable siblings” who find themselves in way over their heads after Morgan steals a necklace from a local shop to gift to their grandmother on her deathbed. Once the furious store staffer discovers the missing diamond necklace, Nicky and Morgan are pulled into the world of organized crime. Blackmailed into increasingly dangerous assignments, they clumsily fail upwards, sinking deeper into chaos they’re ill-equipped to handle. Laurie Metcalf, Jack Innanen, Boran Kuzum, Abby Quinn, Elizabeth Perkins, Jacob Gutierrez, Joe Barbara and Mark Ivanir also star.
Sennott and Levy share the stage.
(Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Netflix)
Sennott used Schitt’s Creek as a jumping off point for her first question by asking Levy how he came up with the idea for a crime caper coming off this “amazing, huge, successful and award-winning show.”
“Well, a lot of time had to pass,” Levy answered. “When the show ended, there was this immediate conversation of, like, ‘What are you doing next?’” Turns out he didn’t love that question, calling it “a horrible way of doing business.
“God forbid I nap,” he quipped. “For me, it was like, I needed to take a minute because I knew what the show meant to me and I knew what it meant to other people. And having a show of your own, you’re so proud of what you make and if you’re lucky enough to get, in our case, six seasons of a TV show, you walk away from that really proud of what you’ve done. To jump into something else, it almost does the new project a disservice because you’re constantly going to be comparing it to the one that came before. So, I needed the dust to settle.”
While that dust settled, Levy wasn’t exactly staring at the wall eating grilled cheese. He kept busy with other projects, creating and hosting the HBO Max series The Big Brunch, acting in projects like The Idol (with Sennott), Sex Education, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Smurfs, Unfrosted and Haunted Mansion. He also wrote, directed and starred in Good Grief, a Netflix film about grief and friendship. But he eventually turned his attention toward c