Why it may be worth watching
- This Life combines Drama storytelling.
- The principal cast includes Torri Higginson, Lauren Lee Smith, Rick Roberts.
TV series
This Life
Set 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.
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Cast
Torri HigginsonNatalie Lawson
Lauren Lee SmithMaggie Lawson
Rick RobertsMatthew Lawson
Kristopher TurnerOliver Lawson
James WotherspoonCaleb Lawson
Stephanie JanusauskasEmma Lawson-Crowley
Julia Scarlett DanRomy Lawson-Crowley
Rachael CrawfordDanielle Berg
Janet-Laine GreenJanine Lawson
Peter MacNeillGerald Lawson
Shawn DoyleAndrew Wallace
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Best suited to viewers looking for Drama. The available catalogue spans 2 seasons.
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Themes and topics
journalistcancersingle motherhospitalization
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