The Big C Season 4 Episodes

Episode 1

Quality of Life

Mon, Apr 29, 201360 mins

It's five months after the Jamison's Puerto Rican adventure, and Cathy finding out that her experience with Angel on his fishing boat was all a hallucination as she was lost during the scuba diving expedition. Regardless, she believes Angel was meant to be her angel of death. There is a death before Cathy's, namely Thomas, who has now joined Marlene. Cathy is stressing over what to place on his tombstone. It's a week before Adam's sixteenth birthday, and while he is focused on getting his driver's license, Cathy is focused on organizing a party for him, whether or not he wants one and despite her fatigue from recent chemotherapy treatments to remove the bits of the tumor the surgery could not remove. In her recent problems with Dr. Sherman, Cathy turns to her therapist among other people in how to deal with him, but he may be the best person to address the issue, that is if she can get some alone time with him outside of her scheduled appointments. She is still teaching, about which Principal Schuler quietly seethes as she feels Cathy is putting her own needs over the students' welfare. Cathy believes her and Paul's marriage is now in name only, as he works on promoting his business, taking over Joy's motivational speaking under his catch phrase "Flip That Switch", and completing his self-help book. And Andrea, now at college, has moved into the dorm. Having problems with her roommate, Andrea doesn't feel she can turn to Cathy anymore. Through everything, Cathy reevaluates the goal she has set out for herself for her remaining time.

Episode 1

Quality of Life

Mon, Apr 29, 201360 mins

It's five months after the Jamison's Puerto Rican adventure, and Cathy finding out that her experience with Angel on his fishing boat was all a hallucination as she was lost during the scuba diving expedition. Regardless, she believes Angel was meant to be her angel of death. There is a death before Cathy's, namely Thomas, who has now joined Marlene. Cathy is stressing over what to place on his tombstone. It's a week before Adam's sixteenth birthday, and while he is focused on getting his driver's license, Cathy is focused on organizing a party for him, whether or not he wants one and despite her fatigue from recent chemotherapy treatments to remove the bits of the tumor the surgery could not remove. In her recent problems with Dr. Sherman, Cathy turns to her therapist among other people in how to deal with him, but he may be the best person to address the issue, that is if she can get some alone time with him outside of her scheduled appointments. She is still teaching, about which Principal Schuler quietly seethes as she feels Cathy is putting her own needs over the students' welfare. Cathy believes her and Paul's marriage is now in name only, as he works on promoting his business, taking over Joy's motivational speaking under his catch phrase "Flip That Switch", and completing his self-help book. And Andrea, now at college, has moved into the dorm. Having problems with her roommate, Andrea doesn't feel she can turn to Cathy anymore. Through everything, Cathy reevaluates the goal she has set out for herself for her remaining time.

Episode 2

You Can't Take It with You

Mon, May 6, 201352 mins

It's November, two months after Cathy quit her job and decided to go off chemotherapy. She's feeling great, with one small bump of losing feeling in one of her legs, the paralysis due to the tumor pressing on her brain. In feeling great, Cathy wants to get all her affairs in order, which includes one major issue concerning Paul. Cathy's therapist warns her, however, that life may throw her a curve ball, and she just has to be prepared for that ball not to hit her in the face. Paul, away in Detroit on his next speaking engagement, comes to a realization of his own about his life with Cathy, which may not mesh with her plans. Adam's tutoring sessions with Lydia don't seem to be helping enough for him to pass his chemistry exam and thus the class. As such, Adam proposes a scheme to her, which she in turn modifies leading to Adam being the one who has to make the decision on whether or not to proceed with the less than ethical scheme. Sean is growing a beard, which is at a scraggly stage, and which he refuses to shave. Despite the beard obviously bothering him, Sean eventually admits the reason for the beard in a deal he makes with Cathy. And Andrea is continuing to have problems at college, this time in a class with guest professor Isaac Mizrahi. Her problems work their way back to Cathy as the cause.

Episode 2

You Can't Take It with You

Mon, May 6, 201352 mins

It's November, two months after Cathy quit her job and decided to go off chemotherapy. She's feeling great, with one small bump of losing feeling in one of her legs, the paralysis due to the tumor pressing on her brain. In feeling great, Cathy wants to get all her affairs in order, which includes one major issue concerning Paul. Cathy's therapist warns her, however, that life may throw her a curve ball, and she just has to be prepared for that ball not to hit her in the face. Paul, away in Detroit on his next speaking engagement, comes to a realization of his own about his life with Cathy, which may not mesh with her plans. Adam's tutoring sessions with Lydia don't seem to be helping enough for him to pass his chemistry exam and thus the class. As such, Adam proposes a scheme to her, which she in turn modifies leading to Adam being the one who has to make the decision on whether or not to proceed with the less than ethical scheme. Sean is growing a beard, which is at a scraggly stage, and which he refuses to shave. Despite the beard obviously bothering him, Sean eventually admits the reason for the beard in a deal he makes with Cathy. And Andrea is continuing to have problems at college, this time in a class with guest professor Isaac Mizrahi. Her problems work their way back to Cathy as the cause.

Episode 3

Quality of Death

Mon, May 13, 201358 mins

It's January, and Cathy isn't doing well, now on routine pain medication and the tumors growing bigger. Rather than lean on her family, she decides to go into the hospice, which her family believes is her giving up, she trying to assure them that she isn't in an unusual way. An incident with her hospice roommate Nan shows Cathy that she isn't ready to die yet. Visions Cathy sees at the hospice may make death closer than she wants. With Cathy no longer at home, a question becomes how Paul and Adam will cope in this early stage without her. With a match found, Sean reconsiders his decision to donate a kidney. Bethany, the hospice therapy cat, may give Sean a better sense if he should go through with the donation. And Andrea faces a dilemma in that the "death shroud" she is making for size 8 Cathy, which is also acting as her term assignment, has to appear in a fashion show on a model size 6 or smaller, Andrea who refuses to cut the outfit just to make the runway model look better.

Episode 3

Quality of Death

Mon, May 13, 201358 mins

It's January, and Cathy isn't doing well, now on routine pain medication and the tumors growing bigger. Rather than lean on her family, she decides to go into the hospice, which her family believes is her giving up, she trying to assure them that she isn't in an unusual way. An incident with her hospice roommate Nan shows Cathy that she isn't ready to die yet. Visions Cathy sees at the hospice may make death closer than she wants. With Cathy no longer at home, a question becomes how Paul and Adam will cope in this early stage without her. With a match found, Sean reconsiders his decision to donate a kidney. Bethany, the hospice therapy cat, may give Sean a better sense if he should go through with the donation. And Andrea faces a dilemma in that the "death shroud" she is making for size 8 Cathy, which is also acting as her term assignment, has to appear in a fashion show on a model size 6 or smaller, Andrea who refuses to cut the outfit just to make the runway model look better.

Episode 4

The Finale

Mon, May 20, 201360 mins

It's May, four months since Cathy entered the hospice. She still wants to get all her affairs in order before she passes, which seems to be soon as she can no longer walk, has constantly blurry vision, and is in constant pain even with the morphine. There are things that Cathy can't control, however. She knows that she will not see Adam graduate, as he still has one more year of classes, that is if he even passes the ones he's currently taking. She has no assurances what the afterlife holds for her or anyone who passes, although she does try to cover all the bases. And she can't control exactly when she will die, she trying to will it after each special moment, that dying moment which she feels will define how others view her after she's gone. She will find that there are other things she can't control as witnessed by news she gets from the hospice. In that regard, she asks Sean for a favor, she having chosen him largely because of his decision to donate a kidney to a total stranger. One other thing she can control is deciding whether she wants to see her father before she dies, he who doesn't even know she's ill. If she does decide to see him, the thing she can't control is if he comes. She wants her loved ones to continue with their lives in achieving greatness. That's why she wants Andrea to accept the internship in New York under Isaac Mizrahi, which if she does probably means she will not be there when Cathy dies. She is a little peeved however at Adam's seemingly cavalier want to hang out with his friends at what are key moments in the process. Adam may surprise in this regard. And with Sean's donation, he and the recipient of his kidney have decided to meet prior to the surgery, which gives Sean a whole different perspective of what he's doing.

Episode 4

The Finale

Mon, May 20, 201360 mins

It's May, four months since Cathy entered the hospice. She still wants to get all her affairs in order before she passes, which seems to be soon as she can no longer walk, has constantly blurry vision, and is in constant pain even with the morphine. There are things that Cathy can't control, however. She knows that she will not see Adam graduate, as he still has one more year of classes, that is if he even passes the ones he's currently taking. She has no assurances what the afterlife holds for her or anyone who passes, although she does try to cover all the bases. And she can't control exactly when she will die, she trying to will it after each special moment, that dying moment which she feels will define how others view her after she's gone. She will find that there are other things she can't control as witnessed by news she gets from the hospice. In that regard, she asks Sean for a favor, she having chosen him largely because of his decision to donate a kidney to a total stranger. One other thing she can control is deciding whether she wants to see her father before she dies, he who doesn't even know she's ill. If she does decide to see him, the thing she can't control is if he comes. She wants her loved ones to continue with their lives in achieving greatness. That's why she wants Andrea to accept the internship in New York under Isaac Mizrahi, which if she does probably means she will not be there when Cathy dies. She is a little peeved however at Adam's seemingly cavalier want to hang out with his friends at what are key moments in the process. Adam may surprise in this regard. And with Sean's donation, he and the recipient of his kidney have decided to meet prior to the surgery, which gives Sean a whole different perspective of what he's doing.

Episode 5

Episode #4.5

Mon, May 27, 2013

Episode 6

Episode #4.6

Mon, Jun 3, 2013

Episode 7

Episode #4.7

Mon, Jun 10, 2013

Episode 8

Episode #4.8

Mon, Jun 17, 2013