‘SCTV – The Greatest Show You’ve Never Heard Of’ movie review: a routine documentary with little insight, but emotional reunions

Netflix’s documentary about Second City Television (SCTV) offers little new insight for long-time fans, but brings former cast members together to reflect on the sketch show. That reunion gives the film emotional weight, particularly after the deaths of several people involved, and recalls SCTV’s lasting influence on comedy.

Running for six seasons from 1976 to 1984, SCTV was known as a more offbeat, subversive alternative to Saturday Night Live and featured performers including Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara and John Candy. The documentary runs for under 90 minutes and includes archive highlights alongside comments from cast members and admirers such as Conan O’Brien and Bill Hader. A planned reunion directed by Martin Scorsese was filmed in 2018 but never released; the reviewer finds this later film routine, though warmly nostalgic.