Interesteg
What makes it different from others?
Brightlyme
i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.
Helloturia
I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.
Cassandra
Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
Kim Ren
Why was this show cancelled???? I had watched it before and rewatched it again on Netflix. I loved it from beginning to end. The actors are all excellent and the storylines entertaining (as much as one can be while dealing with issues of cancer). Season two just ended without any resolution to anything. This is very frustrating. Whoever made the decision to axe this show should be axed themselves. Please, please if any exec producers or any person like that is reading this, please reconsider continuing the show, although I assume the actors have all moved on to different things now but anything is possible - hey they brought Will & Grace back!
C D
I started watching the first episode with lots of hope for an inspirational modern take on living with cancer. The overview looked promising and I usually love shows that take on difficult subjects with a positive yet realistic spin. Everything started well. The initial setup wasn't bad and the lead actress was engaging. That's about where it stops. No more than 10 minutes into the show, the lead is berated (only as a joke of course) for being a feminist (her co-worker jokes that she should just ask the guy out that she's swooning over at the office because "you're one of those annoying girls that does that right?" Her response, "What, you mean a feminist?")This theme continues throughout the rest of the episode. For example, after the lead and the love interest have a great date one night, the love interest overhears only part of a conversation (after he chooses to eavesdrop in a stairwell, so that screams healthy mentality already) the next day between the lead and her uncle. He immediately jumps to conclusions, gets unjustifiably angry at the lead and starts blowing her off with no explanation or conversation as to why. Rather than her taking this as a sign that he's unstable and a poor communicator, she sweats over his denial of her. She confronts him and as soon as he understands the full context of the conversation (which wasn't his right to know in the first place), the script is written so it seems to play out as HE is forgiving her, as if she was in the wrong. And she immediately swoons again and starts kissing him. It continues in Ep 2 when the love interest says, "You're stable. You're solid." she responds with, "Please none of these are sexy adjectives." Really? Because now we need to perpetuate that stable, self-sufficient woman aren't sexy?Ep 2 also sees the introduction of the lead's new boss - and attractive female senior corespondent. Before you get all excited about a strong female character, they wait no more than 5 minutes before they objectify her: the lead's co-worker makes an inappropriate sexual innuendo while the camera angle cuts to a shot of the woman walking away, clearly focusing on the tight pencil skirt she's wearing. She speaks 5 languages, but it's the way she looks that really makes her desirable. This degrading of a strong female character continues later in the episode as they proceed to portray her as a "bitch" boss when she takes an interview op from the lead - effectively creating a stereotypical "catty women relationship" between the lead and her boss. These are just a few examples of what is continually strewn throughout this show. It's really disappointing that a show that had so much potential with casting a woman lead, a heavily female cast, and setting up a storyline that should inspire hope, would turn out to be such a letdown on so many levels. If you're looking for an example of what misogynistic tones (both blatant and underlying) look like in Hollywood, then this is your show! If not, switch over to Jessica Jones or House of Cards or even throw on an old classic, Friends, where at least you can laugh at their pre-FB existence with a fun sense of irony.
petar-mitrovic
I want to mention that I have only watched 10 episodes so far and the review is based on that. Chasing Life, as the Titel states, is centered around the concept of "how precious life is" more so than than "how irreversible death is". As far as I'm concerned the concept of this series generally works. Italia Ricci does a great job and makes the show work. The "side stories" and secondary characters have, for me, been a little underwhelming. Not because they where badly cast or don't know how to act, but in my opinion because they are not really flushed out in a way to make them appealing or likable, which i attribute to the writing.The correlation between the movie and this TV series for me is hard to overlook. But a movie captures your attention for roughly 2 hours. This show needs you to make the decision to tune in every week to see how the story progresses. And here is my issue. there are generally only 2 ways that this can play out with the main story arc. Italia Ricci is either going to die or she is going to miraculously recover. To me neither are really appealing. Don't get me wrong, we are going to yo-yo all over the place but in the more general sense, if she dies you get to witness a lot of pain and tears. If she lives, the series which is centered around an illness would lose the main ingredient. Be that as it may, she will get worse and by tuning in you get to watch her get generally worse every week, you get to watch a character you like die. I'm not quite sure what to do next week, not because the show isn't good, but because "how irreversible death is" and we are in a downward spiral with no ground in sight...
Z Z
The dumbing down of America. A very superficial show. Anyone who thinks this is a good show does not know anything about leukemia or anyone with leukemia. Google it! Leukemia kills and to make a SITCOM out of that is so Hollywood. You don't go back to work after learning that you have leukemia. You don't "chase" life. You are admitted to the hospital and you fight, fight, fight for your life. Why didn't Hollywood pick a different illness ? I know this isn't a documentary, but seriously. Give Americans more credit... instead of just copying another country's TV show. Listen - everyone reading this - learn the true symptoms of leukemia. Because many people go for months without knowing they have it. Don't think that you can just go for days or weeks without getting to the hospital. Many people die from it not knowing they had it. If your doctor tells you what her uncle told her - get yourself to the hospital ASAP for immediate treatment. No joke.
