The one hundred and fifty-first TV show: #855 The Big C
It's hard to come back from it when the first episodes of a show leave a bad taste in your mouth. Having dealt with cancer in my family, the way Cathy deals with her diagnosis - becoming selfish and steamrolling people without telling people about her diagnosis and getting their support - infuriated me. If her plan was to hide it, it feels like a way to deny everyone else a chance to stay goodbye and come to terms with it. I get that it's how people would react. It's something she tries to make up for later in the series - sort of - but the selfishness of it was off putting, even more in the ways I feel she was harming herself with it. It was too much to be able to bear and I forwarded to later episodes to get past that moment. It still didn't feel quite right and it didn't feel like something good. It's a decent, well acted show, but I just struggled to connect with people in a way that doesn't work for me.