{"id":865,"date":"2012-06-18T20:05:28","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T00:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=865"},"modified":"2017-04-06T21:10:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T01:10:25","slug":"the-big-c-season-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/the-big-c-season-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big C (season 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;I can remember thinking in my dream: Wow, I have to remember when I wake up that I can fly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Big C<\/strong> season 3, aired in 2012<\/p>\n<p>Cathy&#8217;s cancer treatments are working but she&#8217;s still having trouble getting her life together &#8212; one thing she would like is to have another baby. Husband Paul finds himself a new career as a motivational speaker. Son Adam (Gabriel Basso, <strong>Super 8<\/strong>) finds religion. And Brother Sean (John Benjamin Hickey, <strong>Flags of Our Fathers<\/strong>) becomes part of an unusual relationship. Andrea (Gabourey Sidibe, <strong>Precious<\/strong>), who now wants to be known as Ababu, becomes Paul&#8217;s assistant.<\/p>\n<p>Susan Sarandon (<strong>Thelma &amp; Louise<\/strong>) is the big guest star this season &#8212; she plays Joy, a motivational speaker who convinces Paul to follow in her footsteps. Allison Janney (the TV show<strong> The West Wing<\/strong>) also stops by &#8212; she plays a movie producer. Alan Alda (the TV show <strong>M*A*S*H<\/strong>) continues to play Cathy&#8217;s doctor.<\/p>\n<p>Things were a bit less serious this season &#8212; Cathy&#8217;s health is good for now. Andrea is the most normal person on the show &#8212; the other main characters all get into some pretty crazy situations. Unexpected things happen on this show all the time, like in real life. It&#8217;s still a great show but didn&#8217;t have quite the same impact as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/the-big-c-seasons-1-2\/\">the first 2 seasons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t mention the theme song last time so I&#8217;ll mention it now &#8212; it has the perfect combination of lyrics and music for this show. It&#8217;s called &#8220;Game Called Life&#8221; and was written and performed by Leftover Cuties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;I can remember thinking in my dream: Wow, I have to remember when I wake up that I can fly.&#8221; The Big C season 3, aired in 2012 Cathy&#8217;s cancer treatments are working but she&#8217;s still having trouble getting her life together &#8212; one thing she would like is to have another baby. Husband [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[16,15,5,11],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-shows","tag-comedy","tag-drama","tag-review","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10616,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/10616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}