This Life (2015)

Season 1

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.

Released Oct. 5, 2015 Episode 43 min None+

Genres: Drama

Keywords: tmdb.journalist, tmdb.cancer, tmdb.single-mother, tmdb.hospitalization, mdblist.has-trailer, imdb.single-mother, imdb.cancer + 17 more, imdb.terminal-cancer, imdb.female-newspaper-columnist, imdb.family-relationships, imdb.sister-sister-relationship, imdb.montreal-quebec-canada, imdb.mother-son-relationship, imdb.mother-daughter-relationship, imdb.teenage-boy, imdb.teenage-girl, imdb.brother-sister-relationship, imdb.ex-husband-ex-wife-relationship, imdb.father-son-relationship, imdb.father-daughter-relationship, imdb.gay-character, imdb.catholic, imdb.dying, imdb.terminal-illness

Production Companies: Sphère Média Plus

Network: CBC Television

Country: Canada
Languages: English

IMDb

7.0

/243/

Trakt

/13/

TMDb

/5/

Richard Blaimert
Director

Torri Higginson
Natalie Lawson

Lauren Lee Smith
Maggie Lawson

Rick Roberts
Matthew Lawson

Kristopher Turner
Oliver Lawson

James Wotherspoon
Caleb Lawson

Stephanie Janusauskas
Emma Lawson-Crowley

Julia Scarlett Dan
Romy Lawson-Crowley

Janet-Laine Green
Janine Lawson

1.0

S1E1 - Gut Punch

Natalie Lawson, a single mother of three, finds her plans to change her life for the better derailed when she learns her cancer has returned.

Oct. 5, 2015, midnight

S1E2 - Everything Must Go

Natalie confides in her sister Maggie about her diagnosis while attempting to keep it hidden from her teenage children.

Oct. 12, 2015, midnight

S1E3 - The Part That Decides My Fate

Natalie undergoes a biopsy that could determine how much time she has left, while her brother Oliver returns home after years away.

Oct. 26, 2015, midnight

S1E4 - Love Your Tumour

Natalie gets closer to Andrew as she awaits her biopsy results. Oliver bonds with Romy while Janine learns something very troubling about her son.

Nov. 2, 2015, midnight

S1E5 - The Unbelieving

Natalie cant bring herself to tell her kids about her cancer. Maggie and Oliver make self-destructive life choices instead of facing their problems. Janine questions her faith.

Nov. 9, 2015, midnight

S1E6 - Holy Water

Natalie finally levels with her kids. Matthew is driven to face an old mistake. Oliver hits a breaking point with his parents. Maggie is drawn deeper into a polyamorous relationship.

Nov. 16, 2015, midnight

S1E7 - Seeing Red

Natalie organizes a birthday dinner for Emma that nobody wants. The problems Oliver ran from in LA catch up to him in Montreal. Matthew is faced with an impossible dilemma.

Nov. 23, 2015, midnight

S1E8 - My Body Lies Over the Ocean

Natalie struggles to convince Caleb to accept responsibility for his criminal actions. Maggie and Oliver travel to LA to resolve Olivers loose ends with Tom.

Nov. 30, 2015, midnight