TV series

Red Band Society

2014–2015 · 1 season

A tender, bittersweet coming-of-age story set in a hospital, balancing illness and mortality with friendship, humor, and youthful rebellion.

Tagline: Band together.
Overview: Children and teenagers become friends in a hospital where they are all patients. Together they try to escape the sad reality to create their own world with their own codes , while the nursing staff do their best to bring them a little happiness everyday. Charlie , in a coma for several months, attending meanwhile helplessly bustle around him. He sees nothing , but he hears everything ...
How it feels: Warm, melancholic, earnest and light. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Friendship, coming-of-age, isolation, found family
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
lightstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: friendship
coming-of-age
isolation
found family
death
Places: hospital
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: ensemble
serialised
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild