LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Terminal City" isanother entry into the nameless genre we see a lot of thesedays: fo
r now we can just call it "making light of seriousstuff" -- you know, homelessness, or better, cancer.
Sometimes it works, as in the recent Lifetime telefilm "WhyI Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy," and sometimes it reallyworks (try "Six Feet Under").
This light dramatic series -- which premiered in 2005 onCanadian television and now comes to Sundance Channel --doesn't always succeed. It's serious stuff, all right, becauseit focuses on a fortysomething wife and mother who learns thatshe has breast cancer. But when it tries to be humorous, ithits some rough patches.
But the cast is excellent, that's for sure. Maria del Mar("Price of Glory") plays our vigorous heroine, Katie Sampson.Her husband, Ari (Gil Bellows), is more the quiet type whoappreciates his wife's robust spirit and loves living with herand their kids.
When Katie learns she has a lump in her breast and is toldit's serious, she tries not to fall apart. While at thehospital for a biopsy, she runs into a television crew doing alive broadcast of a reality show titled "Post Op!" (Yes,seriously.) Katie becomes its star and soon gets a TV careergoing. It's outlandish, but that's the nature of the humor --or was that drama?
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