The Big C is wonderful at bringing a wide range of emotions, and Laura Linney is just incredible. However, it's hard for me to swallow the initial premise of the show. Cathy doesn't want to tell anyone about her cancer because their behavior towards will completely change. She wants to live her life to the fullest with the people acting as they usually would. But does she really expect them to hop on her drastic personality change? I don't see how she thought she didn't have to tell her family of her cancer, radically alter her lifestyle, and still expect them to be the same.
But we have to accept that she doesn't think that far ahead, and the show becomes a learning process for Cathy in dealing no only with her cancer, but also those around her.
Score: 8.5/10
