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"The Big C" walks on the thin line. Comedy and drama, love and lack of love, sweet but in the end has to be bitter. The creators and producers have to be talented if they want to walk that way and till now they really are. Laura Linney is simply great. She always is, but now is more than ever. She makes the situations easy to be watched because the subject is complicated and can hurt a lot. But instead of suffering with it, we enjoy everything what's happening: we smile, we feel. Feeling, being touched by honest emotions, is something you don't get all days, not in shows and either in real life. "The Big C" doesn't deserve only a good chance, it deserves the fidelity you give to big shows and this is one of them. Try it and you won't regret it.

Before seeing this new show I read the reviews that weren't enthusiastic. I saw the cast list and, really, I didn't see anything that I could love at first sight. I'm also confident that not necessarily a great cast will make a show more enjoyable than any other but it helps. It helps a lot. For example if you watched The Forgotten (by CSI producer Jerry Bruckheimer and also producer of this show), maybe you could find Christian Slater as a reference but not much more than that, and it was a very good show. Or The Beast, with Patrick Swayze, and you could find another good surprise there. Good shows with many people not so famous, not so charismatic. And I think that in Chase you have some chance of finding some good moments. Maybe if the show goes well you can connect with the cast. That option lays on good stories for the future. The first one wasn't disappointing. Maybe not great as anybody of us would want to watch, but not disappointing. It's just standard and that's pretty OK. Let's see what happens next.

A new series season begins and the time of expectations arrives. Every new show expects to be successful in a certain way and it seems to happen that the better way of achieving that is cocktailing the apparently best components of other shows as a black president, as in reality and in 24, but as this has been already done we go one step further. We make him a Cuban American. Then a mystery in progress, like in Lost. Flashbacks and flash-forwards, and you know where that comes from. A conspiracy within the government. All that in the same boat. I don't understand how and why they can be that confident that this kind of mix up can work, but they are and spend millions for doing new shows that don't offer anything new even when they think they're doing that. Just a waste of time. Flashforward, the series, was confident that they could rescue the audience that Lost was going to abandon and they failed. The event maybe thinks that they can get the audiences of Lost, Flashforward, 24 and maybe Heroes. But for something like that you have to work very hard and it seems that The Event's creators didn't give much time in order to elaborate something valuable. Once again, a waste of many good time.