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Network: The CW.
Episodes: 13 (hour).
Seasons: One.
TV show dates: March 7, 2018 — June 15, 2018.
Series status: Cancelled.
Performers include: Lucy Hale, Dylan Walsh, Gillian Vigman, Brooke Lyons, Carlos PenaVega, Jayson Blair, Elliot Knight, Dominique Lucky Martell, Riley Smith, Shannon Chan-Kent, Nadej K Bailey, and Claudia Rocafort.
TV show description:
A comedy-drama from creators Erin Cardillo and Richard Keith, the Life Sentence TV show centers on Stella Abbott (Hale). After a lethal cancer diagnosis, Stella spent eight years living her life like any dying young woman might. She did things like face her fears, travel the world, and even married a stranger on a whim.
Once Stella learns she’s been unexpectedly cured, she must start facing the long-term results of her decision to live like there was no tomorrow. In the wake of her good news, Stella learns about a lot of bad news people had been keeping from her.
When they expected her to die, Stella’s family did their best not to burden her with their problems. Now that they’ve removed the kid gloves, she’s shocked to find out her parents Peter (Walsh) and Ida (Vigman) are no longer in love with one another.
Stella has to deal with the knowledge that decisions her father made — like spending their retirement to help Stella live it up — contributed to the breakdown of her parents’ marriage. On top of that, her mom, Ida, has fallen in love with Stella’s godmother, Poppy (Rocafort).
What’s more, Stella’s sister, Elizabeth (Lyons), gave up on her own aspirations in order to please her parents by having children with her husband, Diego (PenaVega), as well as to help with Stella’s care. Meanwhile, their slacker brother, Aiden (Blair) has been using his sister’s diagnosis to get pity dates from women.
When Stella married Wes (Knight), she only expected to live six to eight months. Now that “’til death do us part” could happen much later than sooner, the good looking Londoner isn’t sure he can maintain his perfect husband facade.
As reality sinks in, Stella realizes she must stop living like she’s dying and start living like someone with a whole life ahead of her. As she does so, she also must help her loved ones do the same.
Series Finale:
Episode #13 — Then and Now
After Stella (Lucy Hale) puts her and Wes’s (Elliot Knight) life on social media, they find themselves defending their relationship to the world and forcing them to question what the future holds for them. Peter’s (Dylan Walsh) health scare makes him realize who he really wants to be with. Meanwhile, Aiden (Jayson Blair) doesn’t want to give up on his dream of the bar and clamors to find a solution.
First aired: June 15, 2018.
What do you think? Do you like the Life Sentence TV series? Should this TV show have been cancelled or renewed for season two on The CW?
I just finished watching the first season and I loved the show! I am so disappointed to hear it was canceled!i want more!!
Awesome show!! It can’t be cancelled!
Such a great show! I’m sad to see it cancelled & am hoping this decision can be reversed or at least something like Netflix/Hulu decide to pick it up! Fell in love with the story, family & want to see more!!!
This show was real, authentic, and hopeful. On the real- I am VERY dissapointed they only gave one season and cut the cord. Truly bad call, CW. What does it take to make another season happen? I’m willing to go the distance.
I am so disappointed this show has been cancelled! I just came across it on Netflix and watched Episode 1. I ended up staying up all night and binge-watched ALL 13 episodes in one night! My husband was diagnosed with cancer in 2016 and is in remission. It was a hard year of uncertainty yet always reminded myself to stay positive in his fight! This story touched me, it was relatable. In the midst of going through something so scary and possibly life ending, you also have to fumble hour way through raising kids and dealing with other family issues… Read more »
I Loved the show, it was one of my new shows to watch, I always taped it so I wouldn’t miss it,so sad
What a sweet show. Disappointed that it was cancelled. There really is a lack of good shows out there. I wish I had known about it when it was airing and I would have watched it regularly as opposed to watching it on Netflix. It should be brought back!!!!!!
I’m old…almost 70. So most of the cr*p on Netflix is boring as hell. I mean…how much “resistance” and hunger-game, monolithic buildings can anyone sane individual tolerate? Really. At first, Stella drove me crazy, but as I just said, choices are limited if you’re not a mind-numbed game player. However, I finished impressed. The show’s creators were able to actually center the show around some important concepts: life is not easy; life presents difficult choices; know thyself; follow your heart…and develop the courage to do so. The last two episodes ran a little ragged, but the others held tightly to… Read more »
I really LOVED this show – so sad it was cancelled – I really hope another network picks it up
So sad no more episodes. I really enjoyed the show wish they would play more seasons
I am so disappointed, this show was great. I also hope it is picked up by another network. I will be watching, fingers crossed.
I loved this show! It gives me something to watch while my family and I have our own show to watch together. Please reconsider bringing this show back.. There are so many stupid shows on Netflix, why get rid of one that makes people happy?
I love this show….just finished the series today and cried….Life is hard!! Love how the family sticks together through all of Life’s Challenges..The cast was Amazing, I hope some other Network will bring this show back!! CW PLEASE RECONSIDER!!!
I loved this show! Finally an intelligent, easy to watch weekly tv show, with intelligent writing, great acting, and a whole cast of easy-on-the-eye actors. I was so disappointed to hear that it was cancelled.
I despise the Doctor. What a jerk. Otherwise I liked the show.