Adam Lenhardt
Senior HTF Member
"The Breakfast Club" as a TV series, if it were set in a hospital. FOX clearly aims for this to be its new "Glee" for the The Fault in Our Stars/If I Stay set.Executive produced by Steven Spielberg and based on a Catalan telenovela, Octavia Spencer stars as the "scary bitch" nurse who rules over the a ward for teenage patients. All of the patients featured in the main cast require long-term care.The trailer for this one had me hook, line and sinker. The pilot didn't quite live up to the trailer's promise, but still set a decent foundation for a potentially terrific series. Spencer is predictably terrific as Nurse Jackson, conveying the character's deep investment in these children without softening any of the character's sharp edges. Of the younger cast, only Zoe Levin stood out as the cheerleader whose nasty, "mean girl" exterior belies the perceptive and caring person underneath.Don't know that I buy into the Ruben character, a wealthy donor to the hospital who lives on site due to his satisfy his hypochondria. I also don't think the narration from the boy in the coma quite works, especially the filter they use on the audio to remind the audience that he's in a coma.