EPISODE
Red Band Society - Season 1
A group of teenagers with different diseases and how they got along living with each other in the hospital.
23 April 1996, Islington, London, England, UK
24 October 1991, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
16 September 1987, Encino, California, USA
1 November 1949, Dallas, Texas, USA
23 March 1966, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
August 29, 2014
Boasting a winning (if on-the-nose) mix of the aforementioned seminal John Hughes film and Glee's freshman season - Red Band Society has the potential to sneak up on and charm its samplers. Let it, and it will make you smile.
September 15, 2014
For starters at least, Red Band Society has enough lightness of being and appealing characters to counterbalance its overall sobering premise. There's no RX for smash hit here. But the prospects for survival perhaps approach 50-50.
September 10, 2014
Red Band Society is a show that wants to please its character more than it wants to please its viewership, and by pleasing its characters first, the audience, by consequence, becomes intrigued.
September 17, 2014
The cast works well together. They just have to fight some implausible setups and jarring shifts from clever and poignant to sappy and slapstick. Did we mention that when someone faints, he or she can chat with Charlie [kid in a coma]?
September 10, 2014
Treats serious illness as if it's just another trendy affectation, like joining the glee club or becoming a vampire.
September 17, 2014
Problems aside, there's a Wonder Years quality to Red Band Society that transports viewers back to those simple firsts in life, the coming of age rites of passage that we all instantly understand and can connect to.
August 14, 2014
Red Band Society has to maintain a difficult balance between taking things too seriously and taking them too lightly. The premiere episode handles the task well.
September 16, 2014
Red Band Society (the name comes from their hospital bracelets) aims for the poignancy of the runaway teen bestseller The Fault in Our Stars, but the TV project is too transparent in the way it goes about tugging on your sympathies.