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In this latest pilot premiere episode, we are

taking a look at another new show from Fox entitled

Red Band Society. Before we get too far into

the show of the discussion, we're going to put

a little news break here so I can give you a

bit of the caffeine news from this past week

from thetelevision .com. We'll be back with the

Red Band Society stage dressing after the news.

Hello channel surfers and welcome to the remote

controls news segment with Steve Megatron and

TFG1 Mike Yes, we are here to talk about this

past week's television news as always from the

televixn .com Kate Welsh's caffeine collection

of news every week. This is for the Sunday October

26th edition Happy Sunday. We finally got our

first new show cancellation for the season But

first some good news picked up for full seasons

the flash and Jane the Virgin Renewed is Z nation

cancelled Manhattan love story and FX is the

bridge MTV has picked up an additional 10 episodes

of faking it additional scripts ordered for advanced

society that is good news because I love that

show and I've heard that the ratings haven't

been that great, so Fox might drop it, but it's

a good sign that they're picking up additional

scripts. ABC has ordered extra episodes of Black

-ish Castle, The Goldbergs, Grey's Anatomy, The

Middle, Modern Family, and Once Upon a Time.

The latter's extra episode will be part of a

two -hour episode on November 16th. CSI's episode

order for this season has been reduced to 18.

Fox has cut Mulaney's order to 13 episodes. Netflix

Canada has ordered its first original series,

Between. So that's interesting. A couple of news

articles I pulled out of Kate's wrap -up of this

past week's TV news. One of them, I can't believe

the 50th anniversary for this show is almost

almost upon us. But apparently um bewitched follow

-up series lands at NBC with pilot production

commitment Had you I know you're a little young

I've seen it before don't act like I haven't

Well, I didn't know there's some shows that I've

seen that you haven't, so I just want to make

sure you know about Bewitched. What do you think

of them? Now this says in here that a follow

-up series. This does not say a reboot or a relaunch.

This sounds like to me they're gonna be doing

a sequel series. What do you think of this? Why?

Okay, the same thing can be said about Girl Meets

World, but this has been so long. Since the original

series that this should never be made It should

be left in the past. They tried it to reboot

as a movie granted the casting of one of the

characters wasn't so great the other one was

but again, I don't Really see the need in bringing

this back Okay for those not in the know the

article states coming on the 50th anniversary

of the witch days bewitched debut, the new version

is a reimagining of the original series two generations

later. It centers on Daphne, Samantha's granddaughter,

and Tabitha's daughter, a single 20 -something

witch who has always used her magical powers

to conjure herself to perfect life. But she soon

realizes that the one thing she cannot conjure

and control is the one thing she wants most,

real love. Ah, love. Young love. um yeah i you

know it's not something that i would be super

stoked about but if i think if they get the right

cast uh it could really work um obviously you're

not gonna have a lot of the original cast members

reprise uh and i believe yeah the original actress

that played samantha is no longer with us um

I don't know, I think it's kind of cool. So,

moving on to what Steve likes best. Superhero

news! Arrow casts Vinnie Jones as comic book

villain Brick. Thoughts, sir? Uh, I'm not really

familiar with the character. Uh -huh. Um, I am

familiar with the actor through, uh, the show

The Cape. Mm -hmm. Uh, which he, uh... He played

a guy that was called like scales or something

like that and he looked like He looked like a

more human version of Killer Croc Mm -hmm. So

Have you ever you oh, yeah, you've seen you've

seen gone in 60 seconds it's been a long time

he is Sphinx again, it's been a long time. I

don't remember He plays Sphinx and gone in 60

seconds Sphinx is the character that doesn't

speak until the very end and he has an English

accent and Nicholas Cage said I always thought

you're from Long Beach He was also in the condemned

opposite Stone Cold Steve Austin. He played the

villain in that. I like this. I think it could

be kind of cool. I'm catching up on Arrow. As

of this episode of Remote Control, I am three

episodes away from finishing season two so far.

I'm really, really digging it. I think this could

be an interesting direction for them. The final

news story we're going to talk about is that

Morena Baccarin joins Gotham. She will be playing

Dr. Leslie Tompkins So far we've already done

our Gotham pilot premiere I'll say this now here

in the news segment so far Gotham is kind of

hit or miss per episode for me. I don't outright

hate it, but I don't I'm not outright in love

with it. Like, okay, you take Gotham, which is

brand new. You take the Flash, which is brand

new. Now, granted, Flash had a little bit of

a buffering with, you know, being started in

Arrow, but you take the Flash and you take Gotham,

you put them side by side. I love the hell out

of Flash right now more than Gotham is just this

weird beast for me. Like I said, for me, it's

kind of hit or miss. But I think this is kind

of cool that they've cast her in this role. It's

going to be interesting to see what they do with

this version of Dr. Tompkins. Any thoughts? I

have to agree with you. I think it's kind of

one of those hit or miss things with Gotham.

I mean, I'm fine with them introducing the character

because, you know, by the time Bruce is in his...

30s 40s she's like old so this is about the right

time to introduce her anyway plus you know she

has a lot to do with Helping Bruce develop as

a child So absolutely absolutely All right, I

think that's gonna do it for this week's news

we're gonna get to our main Channel which this

week is Fox another Fox series, Red Band Society.

Have you checked this out at all? No. Okay. All

right. Well, up next, it's going to be Doug Abel

and myself talking about Red Band Society. Stay

tuned. Please hold it. I'm late. Doesn't mean

I should be too. Did you even brush your teeth

this morning? Because your breath smells like

toenails. I see they got your name right. I wasn't

sure he could spell scary without adding an E,

but he managed. Seriously? We thought this was

the new physical therapy room. If you're gonna

lie, lie well. So what's his deal? Is he dead?

He is in a coma. You don't mind if I smoke, do

you, coma boy? You gotta wonder what I did to

deserve this. Yeah. This is me talking to you

from a coma. Deal with it. Her roommate? It's

not just them, it's their parents, their grandparents.

You're not gonna have to worry about that. So

what? He must be a total loser. This is your

new roommate, Leo Roth. Leo, this is Jordy Palacios.

I have cancer in my leg. Dr. McEntry's taking

it off tomorrow. You're gonna get through it.

It's easy for you to say. Not really. with your

hot wheels. Here's the weird thing about a hospital.

Hey. You become friends with kids that you'd

never know in a million years. Are you gonna

eat your lunch? What kind of question is that?

I have cigarettes and diet pills if you get hungry.

I don't smoke, drink, or do drugs. So unhealthy,

right? Not like starving yourself. I have a problem

with my leg. It's gotta go tomorrow. Would you

get to keep it? Yeah, yeah, I'm planning to freeze

it. Like wedding cake. She needs to be wearing

a heart monitor. Assuming she has one. Hello.

I can hear you. I know, baby. Does it hurt? It

does hurt. But not the way you think it will.

It won't be me anymore. Your body isn't you.

Your soul is you. And they can never cut into

your soul. We drug tested her. Amphetamines,

nicotine, cocaine, marijuana. And that is going

to put her at the bottom of the waiting list

for a heart. Can we dance? Might be a while before

I get to again. We few, we happy few. We band

of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood

with me should be my brother. Everyone thinks

that when you go to a hospital life stops. can

i do something sure but it's just the opposite

life starts all right folks that's the news It's

time for stage dressing for Red Band Society.

It debuted this year, 2014, from Fox. Show length

is one hour. Weird. Kind of clueless on the length

of how many seasons this is going to get. So

far, they have at least two episodes in the works.

I assume this is your standard, you know... Either

13 or 22 episode full season commitment Not exactly

sure Because right now it's only showing the

first four episodes On Wikipedia and yes, I know

it's Wikipedia whatever So when when did you

first hear about this Doug? Actually, I'm gonna

be honest. I didn't hear about this show until

you mentioned that you wanted to do it for remote

control so I was kind of like okay. I've not

heard about this show. What's it about and so

I started looking into it and Turns out that

you know they haven't actually it's gonna be

airing on Hulu here for me since I don't actually

have Cable TV anymore, which is great because

it means I can pick it up and follow each of

the episodes every you know the day after I was

really kind of interested in how this was gonna

shake out being that you had the kids and such

being in a in a hospital basically living their

lives in a hospital and I was kind of like okay,

let me check this out and see you know if it's

any good and You know surprisingly I really kind

of liked it Yeah, it's um It's unlike anything

that I've seen currently on television. I mean,

sure, we have, you know, stuff like, we've had

stuff like ER, there's stuff like Grey's Anatomy,

there's, you know, if you really want to get

technical, there's stuff like General Hospital,

where things take place in hospitals. You know,

you've had other shows in the past, like Medical

Investigation and stuff like that, or, you know,

you look at House. much as I don't care for that

show it's still something to to Equate this show

too because it you know yeah doctors hospitals

all this and all that For me I I Saw the pilot

I saw the the teaser for this and I was Interested

and I was intrigued with it But it wasn't until

the pilot when I watched the sent down to watch

and I was like My god, this is one of the best

new shows on television It really really is and

I was wondering like I thought this was gonna

be one of those shows Just by the title and this

is you know Sometimes what people think is you

know you see a title you think of things and

I thought oh Red Band Society that means that

you know it's basically gonna be a show about

Something like you would see on like make -a

-wish foundation It's going to be a show about

sick kids, but I thought it was gonna be something

worse than that I thought it was gonna like burn

unit kids or something something where kids got

infected by some sort of virus and They had to

be quarantined Come to find out this to me. I'm

gonna say this now You're probably gonna grow

and roll your eyes or our listeners are probably

gonna grow and roll their eyes at me but After

I watched the pilot for this, I thought, okay,

this is cool. It is the 21st century version

of Dead Poets Society. Yeah, I can see that.

I actually can see it. The only reason why I

say that is because of how the episode unfolds

and finding out why the show is called the Red

Band Society. Yeah. It's because you have all

of the, you know, you have this group of kids

in this hospital. They all have problems. They

all come from very different walks of life And

You know we go from there I Again absolutely

love this. I remember when I first saw this and

it it When I heard Charlie's voiceover, I'm like,

oh no This is going to be what Fox tried to do

with touch. Yes in in the Kiefer Sutherland series

touch his son Jake did the monologuing because

Jake didn't talk. The actual physical character

did not talk. And I'm like, oh no, it's going

to be something like that. And it really wasn't.

This was really fun. I really liked it. Let's

go ahead and talk about the cast a little bit.

Let's jump on the casting couch, as it were.

because our second discussion base here is the

casting couch we have uh so many cool people

yeah in this one uh really so many cool people

um you've got uh the nurse the the head nurse

here I know I've seen her in other things. I

have to actually look here and see this is the

thing My wife sat down and watched it with me

last night and the first thing that she saw first

thing that she said when she saw this was oh

Hey, that's that chick from the help Yeah, I'm

like, okay cool. You know who it is So that that

helped you I mean scary bitch Yeah It was just

It was just so cool. Okay, so we've got Scary

Bitches played by Octavia Spencer. I've seen

her in other things. I know I have. I'm pulling

up her IMDb. It was not the help that I saw her

in. It wasn't Snowpiercer being John Malkovich

either. I know I've seen her in other things.

What was it? Because I remember her from something.

It wasn't 30 Rock. Wasn't smashed dollhouse.

Maybe she was on an episode of She was on she

was on the Big Bang Theory as one of the nurses

Remember that's what it is the nurse when when

you get powered Yeah, yes, that's what it is.

That's what it is. It's I remember from the Big

Bang Theory That's exactly what it is. I mean

strangely enough the character name in that was

Octavia. I I remember exactly where I've seen

her now It wasn't, it was Big Bang like you said,

but I remember exactly where I've seen her now

that I see it on here. She was Dr. Evilini on

Wizards of Waverly Place. I remember exactly

now where I've seen, because I looked at her

and looked at her and watched her and watched

her in Red Band Society here. I'm like, where

have I seen that face? Where have I seen? And

I just saw it now and I'm like, oh, but of course.

She was hilarious as Dr. Ivelini in that. So

other cast members here, we have Dave Annable

as Dr. Jack McAndrew. I've never heard of this

guy. You know, my wife kept looking at him going,

he looks familiar, but I couldn't place him.

You know, the name sounds familiar. He was in

Brothers and Sisters. He was in 66 Park Avenue.

There's 666 Park Avenue. He was in Brothers and

Sisters as Justin Walker slash Justin March in

2011 he was in the reunion TV series he was in

oh My god the 2004 film Little Black Book as

Bean So he's not he doesn't have too much to

his his background. I like him as this character.

I like the character of of Dr. McAndrew um you

have astro as dash hostney i he yeah i don't

want to pull a not another team movie reference

here but it seems as if he is the token black

guy yep um oh no He is rumored to play Ryan James

and it's supposedly completed for Space Jam 2

in 2016, oh my god. Let's see, other things.

He was in Person of Interest for an episode.

The rest of it is he was on X Factor as himself,

obviously. He was on the Wendy Williams show

as himself. This kid really doesn't have... Yeah,

I mean he wants to his yeah, he was an earth

to echo this summer's kind of oh, yeah ET type

of thing that flopped Didn't flop really you

know it didn't last very long unfortunately I

kind of wanted to see it because I kind of like

that sort of you know Mm -hmm family movie type

of thing and I just I couldn't bring myself to

sit down and watch it You've got So you've got

him you've got Griffin Gluck who plays the voice

of Charlie and Charlie himself You get so Levin

as Kara Saunders or Saunders Sierra Bravo as

Emma Chota Rebecca Rittenhouse as Brittany Daubler

Charlie Rowe as Leo Roth Though one thing that

really surprises me about this show is you've

got the other you've got the rookie of the year

here the other American pie guy Thomas Ian Nicholas

as Nick I haven't seen a Thomas Ian Nicholas

production or anything with this guy in years

I love Rookie of the Year. I love that movie.

So that's the core cast. There are others that

are going to show up as we go along. For this

this what I've tried to do here at pilot premiere

from remote control is I try to go like Obviously

after the episode is has aired on television

and all the internet has been able to get you

know The IMDB has been able to get all the info

for each episode I try to go into each episode

post on IMDB and grab the current cast out of

that episode So that's what I've done here You've

got Griffin Dunn as Ruben Garcia, where have

I seen this guy before I've seen Ruben before

He was in after hours Dallas Buyers Club an American

werewolf in London. Oh my god. He was in my girl

Okay, and you know, I hate to say this I kept

looking at him and thinking oh, hey, this is

like his character reminded me of Judd Hirsch

Mm -hmm. Oh, I know we'll talk talk about next

time. Yeah I kept thinking that that's who it

was at first. I'm like, no, that's not him. Just

it's not It's not judge her generous But no,

I like him. I think he's cool Any any thoughts

on the cast to this point for this pilots I I

like them all Rebecca written written houses

character Brittany dobler who's the? Nurse yeah,

she's the cute nerd cute redheaded nurse, but

Obviously it's I got the feeling watching her

was that she would have been better playing as

a blonde because of that typical blonde stereotype

that you have I just you know kind of oh, I'm

an airhead type of thing, and I'm cute, but I'm

stupid You know that was kind of what I got I'm

thinking myself Please please please please please

make sure that she's got some more sense later

on You know, I loved a lot of the characters

Leo I loved his you know, I loved him being there

and you seeing him Just being this hard ass throughout

the entire thing and you kind of get a chance

to see him Warm up. Yeah And he's from what I'm

seeing here so far I would say he's probably

gonna end up being the leader of this this group

of red band society I would say he would be the

leader In the sense of taking action to get the

things done. Yeah, but honestly, I think even

though he's in a coma I think Charlie is the

real leader because he brings everybody together.

Yes So there is that For me in the cast I like

them I You know, I like how they all interact

well with each other Yeah, you're probably right.

She would have been better as a blonde but I

like Rittenhouse's acting with this because It's

not often that you see a ginger act like a blonde.

Yeah and it's Really it isn't even really acting

like a blonde honestly. I mean this girl has

only been here six months She's so technically

she's still raw at this hospital so I mean I

can see why she wants to be the upbeat and chipper

one and bring in muffins and and everything else

very much the Innocent I guess would be the best

way to put it. Yeah. Yeah pretty much so basically

if you guys haven't figured it out by now the

overall plot for the series and the plot for

this episode to as we are going to jump or not

jump the shark here in remote control an unlikely

group of rebellious friends face adolescents

and in Los Angeles Ocean Park Hospital now I'm

getting that from IMDB I I was trying to, I actually

tried to write something up myself, but it basically

ended up being a three page synopsis of what

the episode was. So I was like, you know, I'm

not doing that. Um, I mean, yes, they become

friends, but only as the pilot goes on. Um, there

really isn't in this age of television There

really aren't opening theme songs. There is a

theme song at the end of the episode. I don't

know if you listen to it at all But good, oh

no, I just gonna say I mean I heard a little

bit of it because yeah again I was I was picking

up on the iTunes version of it. So well, that's

what I had too. I mean there was a There is a

theme song at the very end. So so there is music

at the end Which is what I'll probably play to

close out this episode of remote control So we

really can't comment on the theme. I mean, it's

there, it's nice, it has a nice little hook to

it. The plot itself, I like it, I think it's

really cool. And so my notes here, because I

did take a lot of, I did take about five or six

different notes about this. When I saw the ad

for the show and thought it was intriguing, as

I already said, there aren't many shows on TV

like this today. I was only two minutes in and

I immediately liked the direction of the show

as well as the character death As each character

was introduced. I liked how You have these Five

or six kids that come from all walks of life,

you know You see Kara and you assume because

that's what we all do you see Kara. She's a cheerleader

We all assume that she's going to be this, you

know stereotypical, stuck -up cheerleader and

she is. But when she gets to the hospital and

when they find out what's wrong with it, she

actually has something wrong with her. She has

a bad heart. We come to realize that there's

more to her than what she let people to believe

and it takes her becoming unconscious and actually

going to where Charlie is. This is what I love

about the show. They take a character Have her

knock herself out or have her pass out and become

unconscious again, and she goes to where Charlie

is I love that part because I Don't know how

much of Charlie we're going to be able to send

me sure we see him and we hear him because he's

the narrator But as far as actually seeing him

around and acting and you know going around to

these kids I don't know how much we're gonna

see of him as this season goes on or as the series

goes on But I still absolutely love that scene.

And it's just one of the things that is just

so great about the show. There's so many different

character types in this show, and what they do

is they blend them well at the same time they

make them stick out. I love that. I thought that

was great. Yeah, it was really it was really

pretty good. I mean, I'm going to make some analogies

here. When I first saw. Little bit of what this

show was because I hadn't actually sat down to

watch it I was trying to read online to see what

it was gonna be like to kind of get some just

general impressions like kind of go okay first

thought was This is glee meets house without

the musicals Without the musical okay, that was

that was my first impression, and I am so glad

I was wrong Am so glad I was wrong. Yeah, okay,

and I mean that was kind of kind of what I thought

and I'm like Okay, and then when I start watching

it and I see again like you said basically the

first About the first five minutes when you start

seeing the cheerleader and just being a major

bitch to everybody And then she passes out and

everybody starts Instagramming the pictures of

her passed out on the ground. Oh My god, wow,

you know, I can't believe that people are that

nasty to her It's not well, that's the thing

it and I'm sorry to cut you off here from your

on what society has become today because that's

exactly That is exact doesn't matter if it's

a cheerleader if it's a stuck -up football player

if it was you know If it's a snob is snobbish

math lead. It doesn't matter anything happens

to them that they've wronged you you're going

to then go back and Do what all of the these

kids did to her and taking these pictures of

her being passed out And I'm sure a lot of them

photoshopped them and wrote shit on there that

you know wasn't so flattering But continue. Well,

yeah, I mean, you know, we had that you kind

of get a chance to see that you see You know,

you see some of the kids were coming in my I

I love the fact of how they brought in Charlie

I mean, you know that you see him there. You

hear him talking. I'm kind of thinking to myself

Okay, as you mentioned before you got a 12 year

old kid who's narrating everything Oh is this

gonna go well and then all of a sudden it comes

to him and he's laying there in the coma and

he's like You know suck it up deal with it. I'm

in a coma. So what? And I just kind of went okay.

I'm getting like Charlie already And that was

kind of the attitude I had now my wife She was

watching it and she kind of made this analogy

in that she goes Wow, you know Charlie really

isn't gonna be speaking a whole lot But it reminds

me of the narration of Desperate Housewives because

in Desperate Housewives the very beginning the

narrator gets killed And you kind of hear her

narrating everything that's happening almost

area lane. This is kind of like she goes It's

kind of like that only he's not dead yet. Yeah

Okay, you know I saw that analogy as well and

I kind of went that works that works I understand

that I just the I at first thought this was going

to be just You know I can see them building on

this even changing out some of the characters

Yes, they've they've introduced us to some of

these characters, but they've already set us

up for some of these characters passing on and

Introducing new characters. I think that that

is actually going to work well for the show I

don't think they should do that until the end

of the season to transition into like a second

season. If Fox allows this show, which they should,

I mean, I'm telling you people, this, at least

in my personal opinion, is one of the best new

shows of this season, of this 2014, 2015 TV season.

And if it does well in the ratings and Fox sees

that it's doing well and they put it on for a

second season, I could see then. Yeah, I'm changing

the characters, but I don't want I do not I tell

you one thing I do not want from this show seven

episodes in Three of the characters die or something

else happens to them and they change I don't

want them to know because we're just now getting

to know these characters I want to know more

about them. I want to know more about the interaction

as the season goes along Yeah, I mean I could

see them bringing in Bringing in a kid for an

episode or two and then killing that kid off

because of something that happens and it's kind

of like Okay bummer moving on. You know, this

is life. You're moving on I can see that so That

dynamic I think would work. Okay The fact that

you're seeing these kids kind of banding together

and as they mentioned being from all different

walks of life and kind of coming together to

be what they are stuck in a hospital which That's

a whole other weird thing for me seeing the kids

going to school in a hospital It was I really

kind of liked how they're putting this putting

this dynamic together. It's It's hospital high

is the way I felt on I mean, but I like it though

because it does show you it It shows you a way

of life that you don't like everyone myself Sure

you anybody in your family anyone in this world

hates Going to the hospital or going to the doctor.

Yes, because you know, I was like, oh my god

hospitals. They're so dirty They're so infectious.

We're all going to get sick and die and these

kids they can live there because most of them

probably They're they're all pretty terminal

I mean between Kara's heart condition Charlie

being in a coma What's his name? Token guy. Oh

god. Dash? Dash. Dash is respiratory problems.

The fact that Leo and this new kid... Yeah. Well,

the new kid, good lord. Jordy, Jordy. The new

kid Jordy, they both have cancer. Leo has had

his leg already removed. Jordy's about to have

his leg worked on, if not removed. So these are

kids that take advantage, and they point that

out. They take every advantage they can on this

hospital. Because they are because they are terminally

ill patients Let me point out one of those things

there real quick because I took note on this

When they you can tell they take advantage because

they know the parking garage attendants And the

parking garage attendants think that the doctors

are dicks, which coincidentally they steal dr.

Dicks BMW cars offer joyride Yeah, yeah, I mean

just taking advantage of that and Seeing that

and playing off the fact that they're sick terminal

kids, you know, they're crippled kids Trying

to buy beer and you know buy beer and get laid.

I love that We love that. Yeah, and you've got

you've got Jordy coming in and he is from he

was in Mexico He's the new kid and everybody

looks at him and it's like oh the new kid, you

know x x x x No, no, no, no, no skull and crossbones

get away But you know as time goes on he becomes

one of them by the time they get to the scene

You're talking about he actually helps them get

the beer. Yeah, you know which that guy That

guy should have his liquor license revoked. Oh,

yeah. I mean, you know. Yeah, I mean, and showing

us a side of like hospitals, you don't really

see a lot of every time I've gone to a hospital,

unless it's the ER, when you're on like a regular

floor, there really isn't a lot of activity.

It's usually like the loading docks, the ER entrances,

the the the OR wings and stuff like that. So

going through this hospital and seeing that the

entire place is bustling with activity was really

cool. I really dug it. And I like and I dislike

the fact that the nurses nurse Jackson, I think

it's that's what her name was. Yeah. Yeah. you

know nurse Jackson she's basically the matron

of this ward and you know she's pretty much you

know the hard ass and you know she's gonna you

know I mean she cares about these kids you can

tell and we'll get to that by the end of the

show but in the beginning like you said she is

the scary bitch yeah and these other nurses the

the redhead and the other mixture the The other

black guy nurse You know they see Kara when Kara

comes in you know pressing the call button call

button call button because she's still under

just before she gets her news of her condition

and She wants everything now now now now now

and You know when pressing her button doesn't

doesn't work She starts pressing Charlie's and

they freak the hell out and nurse Jackson gives

her a piece of her mind right away Takes her

phone away yes and and we go from there and so

her I love her character depth because sure it

shows us the stereotypical side and then because

she has a bad heart they hadn't noticed it before

they were in her parents and we find out that

during all this time we find out there's a guy

that comes into Charlie's room Charlie and Kara's

room and he is singing and playing guitar for

Charlie we come to find out that that is actually

Charlie's dad and she tells him well if you don't

get me a phone I'm going to spill your secret

so she gets him a phone she makes whatever phone

call she makes the next thing we see is that

her quote unquote friend shows up with flowers

and Apparently the friend tells her about how

everyone just hates her and everything else.

This is what causes her to Go unconscious again

What causes her heart to stop and she then goes

to the in -between place with Charlie and he

he says I don't know how much time we've got

here So you need to listen to this right now?

Yeah She listens and she she goes back and she

tells she eventually tells his dad what he said

and she also Takes heed to his request for the

pizza to try to wake him up and That was that's

that was awesome. Awesome scene how they did

that and I bet yeah, you know go ahead That scene

was amazing because that's the scene this show

took a deeper emotional turn for all of the characters

because, you know, you've got her plastering

up with masking tape, send pizza, room 5115,

and it's already the end of the day for Nurse

Jackson. She sees this and she makes a phone

call. And we realize she has, I mean, I'm not

saying she doesn't have a heart, but you know

again It goes to the layers of these characters

and how the writers have done so well With these

characters. Yeah, and I mean I will admit my

first thought when I saw that with her Looking

on the bus and looking up and see it was oh my

god She's gonna go back in there and she's gonna

give this kid a piece of her mind and then all

of a sudden you see the pizza show up and when

I first saw the pizza starting to show up I'm

like Oh, so other people on the street saw it

and they are sending pizza to this kid And then

I realized that it's her doing this good deed,

you know, you're talking about her pulling out

the phone I'm thinking okay She's gonna make

a phone call to them and say hey, you need to

go get the tape down right now And then you see

this different side of her and all of a sudden.

It's like, oh my god Wow, she really does have

a heart She really is a nice person. I think

the thing about this is is that it's She is deep

down. She really is a nice person and I mean,

I think what it is is she probably knows that

Charlie liked pizza Because that was the thing

he says to to Kara I let you know pizza might

help me Get out of this coma and I really do

think nurse Jackson wants them to For them all

to succeed and not be be ill anymore. I really

do think that and you know again This show is

all about layers to the characters and it's absolutely

amazing. I absolutely loved it Let's see, I'm

not sure as of this moment that I can pick a

favorite character Because they each bring something

to the table at first I thought like everyone

did that I wasn't that I was gonna loathe Kara

But she brings aside to the story that is that

is needed because everybody again This is a this

is a show about characters from all different

walks of life. Yeah Each of the characters whether

they are the kids or the adults in the show all

bring something unique to the show Absolutely

loved it Really did I like I cannot wait until

the second episode. I mean I just can't wait

I'm gonna say this right now kind of going into

the remote control review part of the show I

Haven't figured out yet or well, I I think I

figured out So as we've already established here

in remote control for the remote control review

section, we are going to use a 0 to 5 scale of

remote controls. Why not? This is still based

on the GCRN universal rating system, which is

0 to 5 stars. It can include half marks. So this

is still that rating system, except we're going

to use remote controls instead of stars. For

me, At this point, I'm excited for more. I cannot

wait to see the second episode. The pilot set

everyone up very well. There was no character

drop off. I'm going to go ahead and give it five

remotes because I loved it. I thought it was

great. I'm going to give it five remotes for

just this episode overall. Right. No, no, no.

Yes. Yeah, no. Let me rephrase here. Yes, we

are just rating the pilot here This is not we're

not rating the entire season because we haven't

seen the entire season at this point No, no for

the pilot this gets five remotes. Yeah Now the

other thing that I want to bring up that I should

have brought up a moment ago was the other scene

the party scene And they all go up to the roof

yeah and During this right before this scene

we get a scene with all the adults we get a scene

with Reuben with nurse Jackson and Dr. McAndrew

and You can tell in that scene that they all

really care about these kids and then we get

to the roof and on the roof scene you have Leo

Talking about his multiple operations and everything

else and why he wears the red bands and they're

hospital bands from every surgery and every operation

he's had. And they're, what, five or six of them?

Basically, he gives reasons why he's giving each

one of the members of the group a red band, and

that's how they become the Red Band Society.

Again, kind of reminding me of the Dead Poets

Society. Yeah. that that's where I got the dead

poets reference from is is from seeing them all

come together as a group and They have this camaraderie

now So there's that yeah, and I mean I'm gonna

give it my five stars just because of how everything

came together I Really, you know, I should say

five remotes. I really liked it for the episode

things. It was a very well done, very done, well

done pilot episode in that it does make me want

to watch more. It's not kind of a it's not like

some pilot episodes where you see where it's

kind of leaving a lot of stuff to be built up

for future episodes where it's going to be slow

building. This kind of gives you a taste of what

you're going to be seeing throughout the season

and says, expect more of this. And I really really

like that for this Whether I'll keep watching

the show I definitely I'm gonna say I'm gonna

watch episode two I'm gonna give it at least

two to three episodes before I really pass further

judgment and say or yes, definitely Yeah, I mean

there may be a time where we might stop watching

but I can say right now for me personally I'm

gonna watch through the first season. Yeah, and

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for final thoughts. Final thoughts, sir? Well,

I gotta say I loved it, loved the show, I'm looking

forward to more. One thing I practically died

laughing about was when you first see Kara and

she's there in the room with Charlie and she

lights up the cigarette. Charlie lets her have

it by farting in his in his coma Yeah, my wife

just about I thought my wife was gonna fall out

of her chair laughing She looks at it. She goes.

Oh my god that she points to me. She goes. That's

so you that's so something that you would do

and I'm like damn it I Yeah, I mean well cuz

Kara doesn't think that Kara thinks okay coma

that means they're out. They're gone. They they

can't you know They can't hear smell anything.

But yeah, you can Being in a coma you can hear

smell Don't know if you can taste if people would

feed obviously not supposed to feed someone in

a coma, but you know and You know that goes to

prove a point and the fact that when she's there

and she's actually seen Charlie in her Between

time and she goes. Oh my god. Can't you smell

what you're letting go? And just again my wife

is dying of laughter and I'm just going okay

if she's laughing like this It's gonna be a good

show. It's gonna be something that she's gonna

be hooked with so I think that it's gonna last

for a while Yeah I mean, even if the show lasts

just one season, that's fine because, I mean,

I still, I'm loving this show. I think it's great.

And, you know, usually, you know, when she asks

him that, can you smell what you're letting go?

And, you know, it's not going to phase him because,

you know, we all enjoy letting our own farts

go. I mean, that's the whole point. but uh...

you know absolutely love the pilots can't wait

to hear more uh... we may or may not be back

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Neanderthals were considered adults when they

turned nine which had to bite But today you're

considered an adult when you're like in your

20s, which is probably bad for the future of

mankind But lucky for me because I'm in a coma

Yeah, this is me talking to you from a coma deal

with it What if a hospital was your high school,

your summer camp, your boarding school? What

if it was the place that you had the most fun

in your entire life? Red Band Society is in that

great spirit of the successful Fox shows. The

kind of teen soaps but with real issues and real

problems and real humor. Almost a kind of dark

hospital humor which is the way children's hospitals

are. This is probably the best pilot script I've

ever read. The show is based on a true story

and the guy wrote a memoir about what happened

to him when he had cancer as a kid and how he

made the best friends he ever had in his life.

I only hope I can be half the man you are my

friend. The show is narrated by Charlie who's

in a coma so Charlie's going to be everywhere

he wants to be in the story telling us what's

going on and what he really thinks. Here's the

weird thing about a hospital. You become friends

with kids that you would never know in a million

years. Losers, populars, stoners, nerds. The

walls just kind of fall down. It's the breakfast

club in a hospital where they get to fall in

love, where they get to make friends, and they

kind of get to break the rules. Busted. Seriously?

Buzzkill. It's got a really dark comic vein that

runs through the center of the show always. You

want to tell me why you pushed a kid in a comas

call button? Well the surface here is terrible

and I'm starving. You know what happens to patients

who cry wolf? We sell their organs for cash on

the black market and split the money. The main

character is Leo Roth. And he's been staying

in this LA hospital for a while having some really

invasive treatments. But it's there that he makes

friends and discovers this group that he calls

the Red Band Society. We few. We happy few. We

band of brothers. For he today that sheds his

blood with me should be my brother. The Red Band

Society catches these kids in a moment in time

in their lives unlike any other. They have the

highest highs and the lowest lows and mostly

they have a lot of fun. Once you see the first

five minutes of it you're gonna want to know

what is going to happen with each of these characters.

They're darkly comic. They're irreverent. They're

ironic. So, like, wake up already! They're really

captivating in going through the struggles that

they're going through, because they're having

to fight a hard battle, but they're not letting

that stop them. There's no self -pity. The Red

Bands are their way of connecting to one another

and saying, we have each other's backs, no matter

what.