“Luck isn’t about getting what you want. It’s about surviving what you don’t want.”

FOX’s newest television show, “Red Band Society,” premiered Wednesday, Sept. 17 and immediately became one of my must-watch shows this fall.

This isn’t a typical teen drama. This is a well-written, heart-rendering, thought-provoking original drama with a unique setting. One minute a character says something so heartbreaking that I’m on the verge of tears. The next moment, I’m laughing so hard that I can’t breathe.

“Red Band Society” starts out in a hospital located in Los Angeles. Except, this hospital is like no other.

In this hospital, you have Nurse Jackson (Octavia Spencer), the scariest nurse around, at least, in the beginning. You also have Dr. McAndrew (Dave Annable), usually referred to as the hot doctor and the best known pediatric surgeon around.

Within the first 10 minutes of the pilot, I fell deeply and irrevocably in love with Charlie (Griffin Gluck), the coma boy. (“Yeah, this is me talking to you from a coma. Deal with it.”) Charlie is the sole narrator of the show and he’s someone you can’t forget, even if you don’t see him physically do something.

Then came along Leo Roth (Charlie Rowe), and I knew I was a goner. Leo’s lived in the hospital longer than anyone can remember due to his cancer and missing leg. He’s the ring leader of the band. The band he refers to as his brothers. (“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today who sheds his blood with me, shall be my brother.”)

This show doesn’t only include elements about the characters and how they deal with their illnesses. It’s more along the lines of “The Fault In Our Stars” meets “The Breakfast Club.” It’s about how Kara (Zoe Levin), the snobby cheerleader (“How do you tell the girl who needs a new heart she never had one to begin with?”) befriends people she would never talk to in school like the nerd Emma (Ciara Bravo), or the life of the party Dash (Astro) (“This place is filled with medical marijuana.”) This show is about breaking social barriers and expectations the world has.

I’d definitely recommend this show to everyone. Even if you’re not into teenage comedy-dramas, “Red Band Society” will make you change your mind. It’ll change your opinions about the so-called social ladder that exists in the world. It’ll open your eyes to the people we see every day because “everyone has two stories, the one they want you to know and the one they don’t.”