Yes, there is no tomorrow for terminal cancer patients to be proactive and make lifestyle changes and more.
Facing Despair with Humor
"Can't Help" tells the life crisis faced by a housewife living in the suburbs after suffering from cancer. She began to do what she wanted to do and say what she wanted to say without hesitation. The main purpose of the play is to educate people to live their day well and take everyone around them seriously.
The first few episodes were not fresh and brilliant, and stayed in the setting of Casey becoming "Desperate Housewives", but after that, the series began to show its "movie-like" profound ambition. You know, the terminally ill heroine is really more desperate than "Desperate Housewives". She has to face her husband who doesn't like onions, her son who likes to play pranks, the annoying old lady in the neighbor, and the fat girl who is difficult to deal with at school. , A normal person living in such an environment would collapse, so why is Kathy already a stage four cancer patient? She needs to conceal her family's illness, and she needs to insist on changing herself and living under the assumption of "if there is tomorrow".
The series focuses on lines and performances, and takes the line of absolute black humor, sometimes absurd and sometimes moving, sometimes humorous and sometimes sad. In the episodes of the 13 episodes, I can see people laughing with tears, mixed with different flavors, showing the inescapable despair of life in a gray and calm gesture, but no matter what you encounter or become, you must Go on with a smile. A classic example in the play, cancer teacher Kathy said to a fat student who was obese and had a bad personality: "You can't be fat and ugly, mean and unlikable, although appearance is fat and disgusting, but the joy of character can attract. People, so, you can either be a happy fat guy or a mean hot girl." Yes, change something about yourself, let the world accommodate and digest yourself, and at the same time, it is also to make yourself stand better, not to the ultimate Compromising the bottom line, this soft and ordinary insistence probably touched many despairing beings.
In this setting, Showtime, which likes to stop and focus on the fringe and the geeks, has kept their extreme dark humor on this show as always: it's not the kind of joke that makes you ready for 10 out of 10 jokes And the comedy of burden, it is very comfortable, but also has a little bitterness in life. Behind the laughter, you need to secretly wipe the tears, sad but optimistic, desperate but hippie, in the face of cancer, with a wonderful attitude to life, let yourself and the world be able to Tears turned into laughter, this is the power of "Can't Help Cancer".
Actresses show comedy talent
The American Film Institute (AFI) announced this year's "Top Ten Outstanding TV" winners, "Can't Help Cancer" is among them, and Laura Linney's performance adds a lot to the show , she also quickly transformed from the serious performance in "Mystic River", showing her rare comedy talent. In addition to Linney, Oscar-nominated black actress Gabriel Sidibe and John Benjamin Hackie, who played Linney's homeless brother Sean, were all smooth and brilliant.
Taking "Can't Help" as an example, Showtime has emphasized unique and complex feminism in the past two years. Stories and episodes for the protagonists. They invited Golden Globe actress Toni Collette to star in "Tara", actress Mary Louise Parker to star in "Single Poison Mom", and Eddie Falco, who was also Golden Globe actress, led the way. "Nurse Jackie". The niche TV network that has produced the above-mentioned paid series is still not as well-known in China as ABC, FOX, CBS, etc., which have produced "Friends", "CSI", "The Big Bang Theory" and "Desperate Housewives" TV network.
However, as a pay TV network, Showtime's style is dark humor and absurd sadness and joy, and the lives and stories of marginalized people are interpreted with relish. There are "Gays and Mortals" about gay and alcoholic life before, and then there are murder doctors. The black drama "Bloodthirsty Forensic", bloody, humorous, ridiculous, absurd, bold and non-mainstream, these rhetoric have almost become Showtime's signature features. It is true that this TV network has a low-key style, but such a large-scale and high-profile, it is impossible not to Eye-catching. And at the end of "Bloodthirsty Forensic Medicine", the gray humor and tears and laughter "Can't Help Cancer" will undoubtedly become the successor of this TV network.
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