I definitely think/hope Red Band Society. Seriously? Children in the hospital with, I assume terminal (in some cases) diseases? Really? I’ve known people whose children never came out of the hospital after they went in, I can’t be the only one. I just cannot even see how this was a good idea to anyone. And all the sassy assertive black nurses (Octavia Spencer you deserve so much better!) really can’t save this for me.
This sounds like such pure glurge, I can imagine tuning in.
And if Octavia is actually playing a doctor, I’m sorry. I saw scrubs/female and thought nurse. (I have lots of nurses in my family)
Red Band Society and A To Z were both godawful crap, and The Mysteries of Laura wasn’t too far behind.
ETA: Which probably means they’ll last a full season (see last season’s “Dads”).
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[li]Selfie - Too topical[/li][/QUOTE]
It would seem from the first few minutes but then it puts it aside and becomes a “Pygmalion” rip-off with John Cho as Henry Higgins.
Cho: “If you think you’re going to dislike the show, watch the show — there’s somebody who would dislike the show on the show.”
Selfie has to be the first to go. I think **The Red Band Society **will hang on until the Very Special Christmas episode, though. I thought the trailer for **State of Affairs **was boring so I can’t imagine sitting through the pilot.
I have not seen Red Band Society yet, but am I wrong in assuming that every episode ends with clips of the characters while a song that may or may not be by The Fray plays over everything?
We watched the first episode of this last night - what crap it was! I won’t waste any more time with it. My husband said he might. I felt like it was going for a bunch of “gotcha” twists but for the most part, I found it totally inane. I can only suspend so much disbelief.
To be fair, I don’t really think the idea of someone being addicted to social media is any more topical than people using smartphones - hell, my mom’s almost in her 70s, and she’s got a Facebook account. Twitter’s been around for 8 years, Facebook’s been around for 10 - even Instagram is 4 years old.
It was bad. Dumb plot idea, trying too hard, poorly written and acted. No likeable character in it at all. Even the premise seemed way too far fetched for me. And I really wanted a new cop/law show to watch.
[li]The Red Band Society - Yeah…sick kids… That’s what people are looking to watch.[/li][/QUOTE]
You would think. I watched the pilot and the longer I thought about it the less I liked it. However, my daughter loved it. So yeah, people (kids) are looking to watch it. It’s a popular genre in young adult fiction. They call it Sick Lit like The Fault of our Stars. Also it is produced by Spielberg which might give it at least a couple of extra episodes.
I saw the premier (well, I was in the room when my wife decided to watch it - does that count?). It wasn’t bad, but it also wasn’t “I want to keep watching this” good either.
He’s aging well. He’s playing younger than he is, and it shows, but he’s been doing that since his midshipman days. A bit of a young John de Lancie about him. I doubt you’ll complain.
I’m bothered by how he loses all his bespoke clothes when he returns from the dead. I don’t think MEs can afford a visit to the tailor a couple times per episode.
The thing is, it’s not about social media, but a person who has built her personal reality around social media and realizes she needs help finding the real world, real friends, and her real self. It ain’t deep, but it is well done. The network is just marketing it poorly.