It's the pediatric ward in Ocean Park Hospital. Kara Souders is a mean girl cheerleader who collapses at practice and needs a new heart. Leo Roth is the leader who lost his leg to cancer. Anorexic patient Emma Chota has a history with Leo. Dash Hosney is a brash cystic fibrosis patient. Charlie Hutchison is a young comatose patient who is watching everyone from an inbetween realm. Jordi Palacios is a new patient who lies and schemes to get Dr. McAndrew (Dave Annable) to operate on him without his guardian's consent. Nurse Dena Jackson (Octavia Spencer) is the everyday commanding boss of the ward and the momma bear to the kids. Brittany Dobler (Rebecca Rittenhouse) is the new naive nurse. Hunter Cole is the new bad boy patient with a golden heart.
It's a teen drama in a hospital. The teen drama is the important priority. The young cast is likable and has developed good chemistry possibly with the exception of Jordi. He's a bit of a wild card. His character is holding so much hidden at the beginning that it's hard to empathize. The medical drama is held back a little. I figure they would kill off one of the kids early but they never did that. They brought in another kid so that they could kill him off. I get the need to maintain cast stability in a teen drama. It's also a different TV era where any character can be killed off. The medical drama seem secondary to all the romantic entanglements of every teen high school drama. That's a choice the show makes and I perfectly fine with that.
It's a teen drama in a hospital. The teen drama is the important priority. The young cast is likable and has developed good chemistry possibly with the exception of Jordi. He's a bit of a wild card. His character is holding so much hidden at the beginning that it's hard to empathize. The medical drama is held back a little. I figure they would kill off one of the kids early but they never did that. They brought in another kid so that they could kill him off. I get the need to maintain cast stability in a teen drama. It's also a different TV era where any character can be killed off. The medical drama seem secondary to all the romantic entanglements of every teen high school drama. That's a choice the show makes and I perfectly fine with that.