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About the show
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The Big C is a Showtime original series created by Darlene Hunt and the starring role is played by three-time Academy Award nominee, three-time Emmy winner, and SAG and Golden Globe Award winner, Laura Linney.
The show follows Cathy Jamison (Laura Linney), a reserved suburban wife and mother who is diagnosed with cancer. The realization of this forces her to really begin to live for the first time in her adult life. At first she chooses to keep her diagnosis from her family, behaving in ways they find puzzling and increasingly bizarre. She finds new freedom to express herself. As the show progresses, Cathy allows her family and some new friends to support her as she copes with her terminal diagnosis, and finds both humor and pathos in the many idiosyncratic relationships in her life.
