• Network: Showtime
  • Series Premiere Date: Aug 16, 2010
  • Season #: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
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Metascore

Generally favorable reviews - based on 4 Critics What's this?

User Score

Mixed or average reviews- based on 9 Ratings

  • Summary: Brian D'Arcy, Victor Garber, Mamie Gummer, Allison Janney, Hamish Linklater, and Susan Sarandon guest star on the third season of the dark comedy that reveals Cathy, Sean, and Adam's reactions to Paul's fate.
  • Genre(s): Comedy
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 4
  2. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. Reviewed by: Stephan Lee
    Apr 5, 2012
    83
    Season 3 opener backslides a bit into tired first-season silliness when Andrea (Gabourey Sidibe) returns from Ghana with a new African name, Ababuo. But things improve when Cathy's slacker brother, Sean (John Benjamin Hickey), steps up as "guardian buddy" to Adam (Gabriel Basso) in the event that he ends up parentless.
  2. Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    Apr 5, 2012
    75
    First impression of the third season is a good one.
  3. Reviewed by: Tom Gliatto
    Apr 20, 2012
    50
    It's an MRI that's lost its mapping capabilities. [30 Apr 2012, p.36]
  4. Reviewed by: Jonathan Pacheco
    Apr 30, 2012
    50
    With this season's allotment of episodes at a premium (10, down from the previous seasons' 13), it's a shame The Big C doesn't make the most of each one of them.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 2
  2. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. While the acting is still top notch, the writing leaves quite a lot to be desired. Characters are almost ruined in this third season. Character development is reversed, and that's never a good thing. Expand
  2. As much as I enjoyed watching the previous seasons and looked forward to new episodes every week, this season has been a chore to watch. It is no longer a sincere portrayal of a woman facing cancer, but rather a soap box for the writers to express social criticisms (for example, the show's take on Christianity is decidedly negative and insulting). Characters are put in bizarre, unrealistic situations and we are meant to interpret this to be compelling tv. I was on Cathy's side during past seasons, but now her actions are outlandish and unrelatable. I want Marlene back. Expand