Did you like Red Band Society season 1, episode 3? Read our recap and help us decide: who’s the biggest liar?!
“Liar, Liar Pants on Fire” sure lived up to its name. Not only did the episode unravel Jordi (Nolan Sotillo)’s made-up backstory, but it seems like everyone in Ocean Park Hospital has their own secrets. Take a look at this recap, where we determine who were the biggest liars of the episode:
Jordi and his mother
At the beginning of the episode, Emma (Ciara Bravo) watches over Jordi as he sleeps. When he wakes up, Jordi tells her why he’s alone: he’s an orphan, who never met his dad. His mother died a year ago, so he had to go live with his grandmother in Mexico.
LIES! The woman Dr. McAndrew spent the night with walks into the hospital, and surprise: she’s Jordi’s absentee mother Eva (Catalina Sandino Moreno), very much alive.
Dash (Astro) is elated by this turn of events. Finally, a way to push Jordi off his pedestal, and reclaim his title as Leo (Charlie Rowe)’s best friend.
Jordi is less pleased. “She’s dead to me,” he clarifies to a confused McAndrew, who tries to make the pair reconcile.
Jordi and Eva have two very conflicting stories about his childhood. Jordi’s story involves an alcoholic mother with a gambling problem, while Eva’s story paints her as a struggling single mum doing whatever she had to do to survive. We guess there are two sides to every story.
When she finds out Jordi has cancer, Eva is obviously shocked and upset. Jordi tries to get her to admit the ulterior motive he believes she has for coming to see him, but she insists she only wants to be there for him.
She suggests she and Jordi play a game of poker, to decide whether or not he should get emancipated (quality parenting right there!).
And Jordi, realising that it’s better to have someone by his side than to be alone, lets his mother win. She’s “all in,” after all… let’s just hope she’s good for her word.
We guess this lie is technically the biggest, but it’s also the most understandable. As Jordi tells Leo, “So I lied, whatever. We all lie. At least I lied to save my life.”
Leo’s lie is probably a little worse.
Leo and Emma
Leo is battling his feelings of jealousy towards Jordi in this episode. He sees Emma and Jordi hand in hand, and flashes back to when he first met Emma.
He decides he wants to get back with her, but Dash points out that this sudden new found interest only came after Leo found out that Jordi likes her too.
And at this point, we have to wonder about Leo’s feelings for Emma. While we’re sure they’re genuine, Emma reminds him that she always liked him more than he liked her.
And when he claims he broke up with her because he was worried he was going to die, she counters with, “You weren’t afraid you were gonna die. You were afraid you were gonna live.” Because that would mean that he’d be “stuck” with Emma — the shy, artsy girl who doesn’t fit Leo’s real-life image.
Emma definitely believes this to be true. She clearly still has feelings for Leo, but has convinced herself that he doesn’t return them.
Instead, she’s taking an interest in Jordi (who is so adorably smitten with her, we almost can’t handle it).
At the end of the episode, Leo finds Jordi and Emma hand in hand once again, and is visibly upset.
Leo is obviously lying to himself about his feelings. But is he lying about liking Emma more than he wants to admit… or about not liking her as much as he feels he should? The jury’s still out.
Kara and Nurse Jackson
Poor Nurse Jackson (Octavia Spencer). After catching Kara (Zoe Levin) buying drugs from an orderly, she tries to confine Kara in her room — only to catch her with a boy.
Jackson is furious — Kara’s drug test is coming up, and she needs it to be clean, because otherwise it’ll mean that Kara is even less likely to get a new heart than she already is.
And why does Kara not realise it? She’s clearly in denial about being a drug addict, but does it go deeper than that? Kara goes so far as to try to steal medicine from little kids, and that just can’t be real human behaviour.
We have to believe that somewhere inside Kara there is a horribly embarrassed little child who doesn’t believe they deserve a new heart, and is trying to make the world agree. Because, like Nurse Jackson, we are desperately in need of one thing not to hate about this character.
At the end of the episode, Kara managed to pass her blood test, but then takes a little blue pill she somehow managed to get a hold of. We just hope it wasn’t meant for the little Frozen fangirl.
In other Nurse Jackson news, we learned her first name: it’s Dina! Nurse Kenji tries to cheer her up after she lashes out at Kara, and says, “You gave up a life that most people only dream of” to become a nurse. We can’t wait to find out what it is!
Liar, Liar…
Maybe Jordi’s abuela was right — you can’t trust anyone.
The episode ends with Leo and Emma pretending they can just be friends, Nurse Jackson pretending she doesn’t hate Kara, and McAndrew and Eva pretending they can keep whatever they have a secret.
Everyone’s a liar. Except, it seems, Nurse Brittany (Rebecca Rittenhouse). Isn’t she just delightful?
What did you think about Red Band Society season 1, episode 3? Share your thoughts in the comments!
The show returns next week with episode 4, “There’s No Place Like Homecoming.”
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