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The description is brief, but the show didn't disappoint. Perhaps for some a touch too much melodrama but they are brief, infrequent and ultimately appropriate. Gentle jabs are made at the doctors, nurses and mostly the patients. There's an episode that makes light of the confusion around diet. One patient proclaims the others must go vegan. Another laments the loss of Italian flavours prepared on a cutting board passed down generations. When a nurse points out he should still eat all these delicious herbs, he points out they accompany his favourite dishes of various meats. The mother of a priest can't understand why her constantly nauseas son on a gastric feeding tube cannot eat his favourite meals she's made for him. An oncologist says eat anything to a patient because it doesn't matter.

Our protagonist keeps having surreal episodes where he speaks to the oncological surgeon, revered by everyone in the department, but is never able to meet him in person. After his surgery, his insides hurt, he suffers from constant nausea, an infection makes him delirious, and he finds out he's lost some pieces of himself to the cancer. After recovering from surgery, his oncologist reveals the dizzyingly terrible list of possible afflictions from chemotherapy that he will embark on.

The first episode starts off with self-pity and bewilderment from an unexpected cancer diagnosis. But despite the ongoing small traumas he experiences due to the illness and treatments, he ultimately he decides to see things in a positive way.

It's hard to describe this show, and I think this will work more for those who know Italy and Italians. Italians make great movies and television, but they are not necessarily known for their (somewhat dark) humor - but this show has it all. I'm not sure how well it works if you have to rely on the subtitles only - I speak pretty good Italian, so I enjoyed seeing it in the original (even though I'm a bit out of touch and kinda did both). The acting was great - every single one of them did a great job portraying the character they were given.

We only watched this as it said it was going to leave soon on Mhz, otherwise I doubt that we would have been interested as it was described as a "comedy", which I really don't think does it justice!!