LeCaptain Talks LeCancer

 WARNING: THIS BLOG CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE NEW SEASON OF DEAD TO ME  AND THE MIDNIGHT CLUB BOTH STREAMING ON NETFLIX I sincerely can't tell if there is more representation of cancer in the media these days, or if I'm only just noticing it more because I, myself, have it. I'm watching the new and final season of Dead to Me , starring Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini, which just dropped today. By the end of the first episode, we learn that Linda Cardellini may have cancer. In October, Mike Flanagan dropped his latest spooky series called The Midnight Club , which follows a troupe of terminally ill teenagers who've chosen to live out the rest of their lives in hospice care, together. Every night at midnight they sneak into the basement and tell stories over stolen wine and the glow of a raging fire. The first ten minutes of the series show a young girl receiving a cancer diagnosis. If you know me, you know I dabble in the dark (humor) arts, and I certainly don...

Have you ever scrolled through Netflix searching for something to watch and you come across a movie you haven't seen in years, and you wonder if it still holds up or if it's a horrible dated mess? I do that with every old movie I watch, but I ask myself: Will this movie hit different now that I have cancer? Take A Walk To Remember  for instance. You know it: Mandy Moore is the dumpy, nerdy preacher's daughter who is revealed to have terminal cancer after making the hunky leading man fall in love with her (but she TOLD HIM NOT TO!!!) and she dies at the end but not before having the wedding of her dreams and doing all the things on her bucket list with the help of Shane West.  I saw that movie in theaters in 2002 with my friend Sara and we cried our EYES out. What a sad movie!! Shane West? What a beautiful man!! And Switchfoot?? What a mediocre Christian soft rock band!!!!! Anyway. You'd think that now that I actually have cancer myself that this movie would absolutely w...