alv790 I have just watched the first chapter, but since I'm not going to continue watching I'll tell you my opinion.I was expecting a bit more of this show, with such a sensitive subject matter. However, I felt they went the easy way. They made it a rather conventional teen drama. The characters were too stereotypical, did not seem real to me. Except for the tough but golden hearted nurse (see? another stereotype), who did a good job. Then there were the absurd situations. Like the horny teenage kid who runs around without difficulties but asks the young nurse to give him a sponge bath, and she just does (OK, let's accept she is very naive and does not notice the obvious motivation, but does she just do whatever procedure a patient asks for without instructions from their superiors? does she have so much free time during her shift?). Or like the cheerleader whose roommate is a boy (yeah, he is in a coma, but still, people get roommates of the same sex). Or the doctor discussing with the cheerleader's parents her difficult prospects right by her room where she can easily hear. I could go on, but you get the idea. This is a TV show, I don't expect too much realism, but so many absurd details make it difficult for me to suspend disbelief and makes me think the writers are not even trying too hard.Their idea of making these kids act like "real" kids is to have them smoking marijuana, taking a doctor's car without permission and buying alcohol, but it felt forced, like they were trying too hard. They did not seem real to me. Because of that, the emotional scene in the roof felt unearned, particularly considering that some of the kids there had just arrived and did not really know the others.With me talking about the flaws all the time, you might get the impression that I hated it. It's not that bad, however. There are hints that they want to develop the characters from those stereotypes, there are still emotional moments that rang true, like the conversation between Leo and Jordi when they were in bed the night before Jordi's operation... I kind of would like to follow some of these characters and see what happens, but there are so many good shows to watch that I don't think I will.

msammartano-58018 I LOVE this show. Sadly I got to it to late. I watch it on YouTube and am wondering why they had to cancel. I am extremely sad it's over. I really felt like the characters were real. Red band society is a bout a group of teenagers with cancer (one with an eating disorder) who form an unlikely friendship. A cheerleader, ex soccer player, ladies man (wants to be), a smart girl with anorexia, and a guy with cancer who came from Mexico for care. At the end of the first episode, one of the characters gives his red bands to the other patients. As a sign of there friendship. It's a heart warming show. Why did you cancel it fox? Why?

SnoopyStyle It's the pediatric ward in Ocean Park Hospital. Kara Souders is a mean girl cheerleader who collapses at practice and needs a new heart. Leo Roth is the leader who lost his leg to cancer. Anorexic patient Emma Chota has a history with Leo. Dash Hosney is a brash cystic fibrosis patient. Charlie Hutchison is a young comatose patient who is watching everyone from an inbetween realm. Jordi Palacios is a new patient who lies and schemes to get Dr. McAndrew (Dave Annable) to operate on him without his guardian's consent. Nurse Dena Jackson (Octavia Spencer) is the everyday commanding boss of the ward and the momma bear to the kids. Brittany Dobler (Rebecca Rittenhouse) is the new naive nurse. Hunter Cole is the new bad boy patient with a golden heart.It's a teen drama in a hospital. The teen drama is the important priority. The young cast is likable and has developed good chemistry possibly with the exception of Jordi. He's a bit of a wild card. His character is holding so much hidden at the beginning that it's hard to empathize. The medical drama is held back a little. I figure they would kill off one of the kids early but they never did that. They brought in another kid so that they could kill him off. I get the need to maintain cast stability in a teen drama. It's also a different TV era where any character can be killed off. The medical drama seem secondary to all the romantic entanglements of every teen high school drama. That's a choice the show makes and I perfectly fine with that.

innerpilot113 I was very excited about this show for the first two episodes but when "Liar..liar" aired with the doctor's love interest being his young patient's "dead" mother, everything was ruined. The coincidence of that reeks of the poorest writing and directing this season of any new show. Such a shame because the potential for greatness was there. I will watch a couple of more weeks, hoping there will be improvement, but irreparable damage may have been done. The young cast while often "flat" with what seems to be inexperienced acting is appealing enough to elicit powerful emotional audience responses. The theme is not only worthy of one's viewing time, but may be one of the most poignant this season, if the writers get to work. It may not be too late. I would suggest killing off the boy's mother sending him into depression that would cause him to open up to the others a much deeper emotional side of him and likewise, eliciting more touching responses from the other characters. The doctor would also become very distraught and he and the boy would bond in a more meaningful way and they could develop a very powerful relationship integral to the original theme.