Season 1 • Episode 10
LatestWhat if the phone never rang that day? What if it was all a mistake? Who would you be? What would the last eight months have been like? Would you have laughed so much? Would your mother have come home? Would you know that the angelic boy was your brother? Or was this simply all a dream?
Terminal City was a Canadian mini-series about a woman diagnosed with breast cancer while running a failing reality tv show turning it into a hit as her life and body begin to change.
Acting
Maria del Mar's crumbling composure is devastating television.
Writing
Cancer-as-content commentary hits harder in 2024.
Creator
Angus Fraser
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Vancouver but barely seen outside Canada—part of a wave of early-2000s CBC dramas exploring unlikable women.
Creator Angus Fraser drew from his own late wife's cancer experience, explaining the episodic structure's strange authenticity.
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