Since this week's Pretty Little Liars was not exciting and worth blogging about, I decided to give the new drama Chasing Life a try. The commercials that ABC Family ran constantly never captured my attention, but why not take a chance and see what we got here.
The episode starts off with an aspiring journalist, April Carver, going to a blood drive trying to get an interview with a baseball player who is in trouble for drug abuse. Okay a journalist and baseball player? You got my attention. When she can't get into the blood drive at the hospital where her uncle works. We see April go to her Uncle George, who she hasn't talked to in ages due to family problems, to try to get her in the blood drive. Then we see April faint and you're thinking oh god, she's going to find out she has cancer right here. But she doesn't instead she flirts with the cute baseball player and gets to interview him.
Next we see a newspaper staff having their pitch meeting, where the editor is very strict and cut throat, and April walks in late. As the editor chews her out, she apologizes and explained the blood drive ran late and how she got an interview with the baseball player no one has been able to interview. The editor tells her that she'll send her notes to the sports writer so he can write the story.
We then meet April's crush and potential love interest, Dominic, who invites her out to a concert he's covering. Which is really a date. We also meet April's best friend Beth, who is Austrailian and runs a cafe. We also meet April's family, her grandmother, mom and sister. We learn that her dad died recently. The family has been struggling with the loss of April's father. The sister is a rebel/delinquent and the mom is depressed and lonely. April's life is going almost perfectly, her family is back on track after their loss and she just about has the guy of her dreams.
But all this time, Uncle George is trying to get in touch with April to tell her the major life changing news, but she ignores his calls. So this leads to Uncle George waiting outside April's home until she gets home from her date so he can finally talk to her. April thinks he's just trying to come back into her family's life. And then he lays the terrible news, she has cancer, leukemia to be exact.
April agrees to see Uncle George to run more tests but when the time comes she has to chose: go take tests and potentially lose her dream job or just go for it and skip the doctors and write her first major story. Like April did, I would chose my passion over my health. Uncle George shows up to April's work because she doesn't come to the hospital during her lunch break clearly because he cares about her. However Dominic overhears the conversation and assumes April and George used to be a couple and gives April the cold shoulder.
April gets called into the editor's office and he tells her he can't run her story on the baseball player. Figuring that was all, April gets up to leave but the editor stops her. He tells her about a real estate developer who is running for governor, and he assigns her to profile him. When April arrives home to tell her mom she can't because her mom is going out on a date and she does't want to ruin her mom's happiness.
Feeling the need to talk to someone, she calls up Beth, wanting to get her secret off her chest. The two of them end up at a bar and Dominic ends up being there as well. April can never find the right moment to tell Beth and she decides to go talk to Dominic to see why he's been acting so distant. Dominic tells her he heard her conversation with George and tells her how he interpreted it, April clarifies and they're a happy couple again. YAY! Right when they kiss, April gets a call from her little sister, Brenna who was out partying with some troublemakers. April leaves Dominic to rescue Brenna and brings her home. After that April sees her mom and her date kiss and gets caught snooping.
Finally, April visits her father's grave and tells him about her promotion and her cancer. She decides then and there that she's not ready to die and she's ready to battle the cancer. The premiere ends with a girl bringing flowers to her father's grave and April sees that the girl's father is her father too.
Overall I'd say Chasing Life looks like a promising series. I'll continue to watch to see where this show takes us, and let you know if it's worth the watch. But if every episode is like the premiere, I'd say it would be an interesting series.
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