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LatestSet in contemporary Montreal, “This Life” is a family saga focusing on Natalie Lawson, an accomplished columnist and single mother in her early forties whose terminal cancer diagnosis sends her on a quest to prepare her teenage children for life without her. Her tight-knit family – sister, two brothers and parents – do the best they can to help her, while coping with their own responses to this revelation.
Acting
Torri Higginson makes dying look annoyingly graceful.
Writing
Cancer patients who still get to be difficult people.
Production
Montreal as character — bilingual, beautiful, brutal.
Creators
Richard Blaimert, Joseph Kay, Virginia Rankin
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