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"The Big C" TV Series - 5/21/2014 3:25:59 PM

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Perhaps not surprisingly, I've gotten interested in "The Big C," a Showtime series in which Laura Linney plays a woman with melanoma. I'm watching the first season on Amazon Prime, and I can't decide what I think of it.

The characters are so hugely overdone that it borders on farce. And some of the plot lines go well past the border. Yet I can't quite write it off, mostly 'cause I'm starting to care for Linney's character.

Has anyone else watched this show? If so, I'd love to hear what you think of it.

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RE: "The Big C" TV Series - 5/21/2014 4:49:24 PM

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Watched it start to finish over its 4 (I think there were 4) seasons. Agreed, it could get kind of schmaltzy and/or preachy at times and Linney's character wasn't always believable, but I thought it got better in terms of character development the deeper into the series I watched.
The last season (four 1-hour episodes) was the best of the lot.

If "the Big C" becomes too cumbersome to believe in, I would suggest another Showtime series from last fall, "Time of Death."
6 episodes, one hour each, of 8 real people preparing to die. But if you do watch it, have lots of tissues available, especially for the last episode.

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