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Alexa & Katie (2018)

Left Feeling Unsatisfied

As I watch the "Alexa & Katie" tv show I was highly disappointed. I having been through childhood cancer in my past. So I was more than excited to watch this and I kept watching hoping to see the episodes when they bright light to the real situations of cancer... but every episode further I just kept being let down. When do they show that Katie can't eat foods like normal because her taste will change? When does Katie have the worst symptoms from her Chemo therapy? When does Katie get chronic fatigue? When does Katie get to go to cancer for kid events? When does Katie become bed ridden? When does Katie have a friend in the Hospital possibly not make it? When does Katie have memory problems? When, when, when!?

I was so upset and left unsatisfied, I was waiting for those real moments and the heart connecting monologues. Instead we got excuses why Katie is so normal... and why she never shows being sick through her cancer and treatment. It can still be comic relief and light hearted, we just need a realistic story to relate too. I can't relate to this at all and I had Leukemia as a child in middle school and recovering in high school. I've seen a co-worker go to work with chronic Leukemia.

To me it feels who ever is writing this and directing this, has not one single clue or idea about cancer and how kids go through it and I am left so unsatisfied. I thought maybe for once someone could show others how to understand those who went threw cancer... instead they covered it up with a false understanding and that hurts the cancer community and those going threw it. Now a days too many people base understandings threw shows and movies, so stop and rewind and fix this please if you are making a season 2.