I wanted to make a review about Chasing
life´s first episode, but I've been kind of busy with college, so I will make a
combo review: Chasing Life, first and second episodes.
So, the story revolves around April Carver (Italia Ricci), a journalist who is working in a major newspaper
in Boston as an intern. She just started and she is determined to get a
promotion. She lives with her family:
her mother, her younger sister and her grandmother. After her father passed away she became the
emotional support of her family. Basically, she became the rock they all depend on.
Everything is starting to get great for her. She is promoted,
her mother starts dating again and April herself starts dating her co-worker, Dominic (Richard
Brancatisano), the
Arts and Entertainment reporter. But you know how life is, when you least
expect it, it hits you with something unexpected. April learns she has cancer, leukemia.
Things get complicated because her uncle George, a pediatric
oncologist, comes back into her life bearing bad news. Apparently when April´s dad died, her
uncle didn´t even went to the funeral and he wasn’t present to help the family
at all. But he wants to help her fight
the cancer, and to make things right. Moreover, he was the one that was driving the car that killed her father.
In the final scene of the pilot, April visits her
father´s grave. She tells him about the cancer, and that she is not ready to
go. And there she has another blow! When she is leaving , another girl is putting
flowers on April´s father grave! And we learn she is his daughter! Has this
anything to do with her uncle distance?? We will have to wait…
I really liked the first episode and in the second
things just got better. April has
problems at work when she has to work with another journalist, who sabotages her
interview with a politician. She also continues dating Dominic, and she finaly
tells her best friend, Beth Kingston (Aisha Dee) about her disease. I love the Beth character, she
starts researching about leukemia kind of freaking out, but finally she makes things easier for April with her sense of humor.
In the second episode, we met Leo Hendrie (Scott
Michael Foster), the son of wealthy
I have mixed fillings about this series. I really think
it is great, but it makes me sad, maybe because I´m April´s age, I don´t know. But
despite that, I want to keep watching it. This series has great potencial, a
lot of topics and issues to keep us entertained. And it´s not just about a
girl who is dying, it´s like the title says, a young woman who is trying to
deal with the fact that she is sick, who is fighting cancer while
trying to live her life like the rest of us.
I really recommend it!!
