It appears that Scrubs is finally, finally dead. There's no more episodes scheduled to air and it's been pulling in a whopping 2 million viewers a night for the past 5 or 6 weeks. It's been dead a million times before, so nothing's certain, but those are sunday morning-newscast ratings right there.
So if Scrubs is gone, consider me sad. I've always liked the show. Like, really liked it. I'd stack it up against, if not Arrested Development of Seinfeld, then certainly the very top of the 2nd tier of shows. Even during the 7th season, when JD was getting hoisted to the top of a flagpole while painted like Old Glory, it was still decent.
Part of the reason I like the show is because in its final season on NBC, as well as this new season on ABC, it's like Bill Lawrence had a brain flash and realized "Wait a sec, it's not the boring pothead stuff people like, it's the sharp writing" and the show really got its shit together. The writing is usually very good, and at times it rises to the level of legitimate brilliance. Usually once a show loses that (and scrubs did for awhile, I'd say midway through season six and ALL of season seven) it's gone for good, but they somehow got it back and it's been excellent.
Also not to be discounted, it's nice having ONE show that is safe and full of warm fuzzies. I like watching terrified civvies get executed on 24, watching House castmates murder people, seeing hordes of red shirts die horribly on Lost, etc etc... but Scrubs was simpler. It was sharp sometimes and occasionally flirted with edgy, but everything you wanted to have happen, happened. JD and Elliot got married. Turk ended up with his dream girl almost immediately. Dr. Cox gave JD a hug. I wouldn't want to be exposed to too much of it, but something about the, I'll just say it, formulaic storyline about Scrubs appealed to me. I think it was because while you always knew WHAT would happen, again, the writing made the actual journey to the known destination actually enjoyable.
Christ, at least it wasn't According to Jim.
So if Scrubs is gone, consider me sad. I've always liked the show. Like, really liked it. I'd stack it up against, if not Arrested Development of Seinfeld, then certainly the very top of the 2nd tier of shows. Even during the 7th season, when JD was getting hoisted to the top of a flagpole while painted like Old Glory, it was still decent.
Part of the reason I like the show is because in its final season on NBC, as well as this new season on ABC, it's like Bill Lawrence had a brain flash and realized "Wait a sec, it's not the boring pothead stuff people like, it's the sharp writing" and the show really got its shit together. The writing is usually very good, and at times it rises to the level of legitimate brilliance. Usually once a show loses that (and scrubs did for awhile, I'd say midway through season six and ALL of season seven) it's gone for good, but they somehow got it back and it's been excellent.
Also not to be discounted, it's nice having ONE show that is safe and full of warm fuzzies. I like watching terrified civvies get executed on 24, watching House castmates murder people, seeing hordes of red shirts die horribly on Lost, etc etc... but Scrubs was simpler. It was sharp sometimes and occasionally flirted with edgy, but everything you wanted to have happen, happened. JD and Elliot got married. Turk ended up with his dream girl almost immediately. Dr. Cox gave JD a hug. I wouldn't want to be exposed to too much of it, but something about the, I'll just say it, formulaic storyline about Scrubs appealed to me. I think it was because while you always knew WHAT would happen, again, the writing made the actual journey to the known destination actually enjoyable.
Christ, at least it wasn't According to Jim.
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