Life Sentence: Season 1

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The CW | CW | Season Premiere Date: March 7, 2018

Summary: Stella (Lucy Hale) was told she had terminal cancer and for the past eight years had been living life as if she would die soon, including marrying after a whirlwind romance with Wes (Elliot Knight). However, when she discovers she's been cured, she and her family must learn to live life again.

Genre(s): Comedy, Drama

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S1:E1. Pilot
Air Date: March 7, 2018

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Robert Lloyd

Mar 7, 2018

A witty show full of attractive, well-spoken people that manages to be a feel-good series even as it remains skeptical about its being a feel-good series. It has it both ways, all the way. ... Cake is eaten, and had, too. Read full review

Kelly Lawler

Mar 7, 2018

Keeping things light and airy works for Life Sentence. As a pure form of escapism, the series is as effective as those weepy movies Stella used to watch in the hospital. Read full review

Rob Owen

Mar 5, 2018

It’s warm and funny-adjacent but it has too much voiceover narration and doesn’t offer the emotional truths of reigning prime-time family drama champ “This is Us.” Read full review

Margaret Lyons

Mar 6, 2018

There’s almost no conflict anywhere. The show radiates likability but lacks narrative bite, which makes it vanish from one’s mind the moment the episode is over. Read full review

Glenn Garvin

Mar 7, 2018

As the financial and emotional dominoes keep tumbling, there are only so many chuckles to be wrung from financial ruin and emotional defenestration. The show goes from morbidly funny to morbid to jagged and depressing at record speed. There are a lot of jokes in Life Sentence about patients watching "sappy cancer movies." Read full review

IndieWire Steve Greene

Mar 7, 2018

Living in a constant state of denial or as part of a concerted effort to keep someone happy in their final months and years is undoubtedly exhausting. Of all the ways to show how a group of people choose what to do next, Life Sentence picks one of the least dramatically satisfying paths, one that doesn’t leave room for much truth either. Read full review

Uncle Barky Ed Bark

Mar 7, 2018

Life Sentence has an off-putting preciousness to it while grinding through one “crisis” after another. It doesn’t earn any sympathies because its principal characters don’t merit much more than one big “Oh, shaddup!” With the exception, perhaps, of poor Wes. Read full review

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gay-boy-forever

Mar 28, 2018

what an awesome show! I am hopeful that The CW will renew Life Sentence for a 2nd Season. It's a nice "Difference" to the other Superhero drama's they are known for.

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PLD212

Aug 2, 2018

I love this show and hope they reconsider having a second seasons. Cast is so appealing and the premise keeps a great tension going between deep topics like life length and value with a lively family dynamic. Styling is great of all sets and wardrobe. Reminds me the qualities of Parentood.

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netflicks9000

Mar 18, 2018

I just finished watching the pilot and episode for this show, and it was a "wow", a top notch level of excellence. It might be too early to say it is a potential Emmy-winner or other awards winner show just by the first episodes, but I would say it is on the "MUST SEE" list. Look forward toI just finished watching the pilot and episode for this show, and it was a "wow", a top notch level of excellence. It might be too early to say it is a potential Emmy-winner or other awards winner show just by the first episodes, but I would say it is on the "MUST SEE" list. Look forward to the next episode!… Expand

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Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: March 7, 2018
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  S1:E1. Pilot
  Air Date: March 7, 2018