It seems to be in the in thing these days to reboot and revive shows from the past and make them for both a new audience and the original shows audience. With without a doubt the best one do this thus far having just aired it's final episode and well as I covered the first two episodes when they first dropped and have been hooked on this show every since it only made sense that I talk about the revival as a whole and so then join me as I give my SPOILER FREE review of the revival that dares to actually be good with the revival in question being called simply just "Scrubs" enjoy.
The plot of this show is after over ten years away J.D. returns to the place where he learnt everything about being a doctor and now has to teach a new crop of interns whilst also being the hospitals new chief of medicine. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good. With the revivals plot doing something that alot of the bad revivals fails to do and that's push the characters in new directions that actually make sense for there characters whilst also very much keeping in the spirit of the original show with the shows plot being so well done that you'd be forgiven for thinking that it was a plot used when the shows was originally airing as the transition to series nine to this show is that seamless and while plot wise the show doesn't focus of J.D. struggling to adjust to being the chief of medicine as well as it did back in season eight as here we only really get the one episode that's dedicated to that and it's pretty much forgotten about after the fact it is still a plot that does feel like a natural progression for his character and the while the plot of the show isn't harmed by them not focusing on this aspect it is slightly harmed by the fact that we don't get to see J.D. going through rounds with the new interns all that much which is something that is a key aspect of both shows and yet it's barely gets focused on in the show as a whole with the plot of the show also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this show is one of this shows executive producers Zach Braff as Dr. John "J.D." Dorian and one of this shows executive producers Sarah Chalke as Dr. Elliot Reid. Also starring in this show is one of this shows executive producers Donald Faison as Dr. Chris Turk , Vanessa Bayer as Sibby Wilson , Joel Kim Booster as Dr. Kevin Park , Ava Bunn as Dr. Samantha "Sam" Tosh , Jacob Dudman as Dr. Asher Green , David Gridley as Dr. Blake Lewis , Layla Mohammadi as Dr. Amara Hadi , Amanda Morrow as Dr. Dashana Trainor , Michael James Scott as Nurse Francois Dubois , X Mayo as Nurse Pippa Raymond , Darcy Michael as The New Janitor , Rachel Bilson as Charlie , Andy Ridings as Wes , Phill Lewis as Dr. Hooch , Robert Maschio as Dr. "The" Todd Quinlan , Judy Reyes as Nurse Carla Espinosa and John C. McGinley as Dr. Perry Cox.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good. The fact that this shows acting was as good as it was is something that is both surprising and yet at the same time not all that surprising as we know that the original shows actors can act as we have eight to nine seasons that back that up and yet at the same time it was surprising due to the fact that alot of the newer characters are either unknown actors or are at best very little known actors and therefor to expect a good performance from them would have been totally foolish. Yet that's exactly what we got from this shows actors with them all really nailing characters pretty much from episode two onwards with the best actor in the whole entire show being Zach Braff as Dr. John "J.D." Dorian as he and along with the rest of the returning actors do slip back into character so easily that its like that they just finished working on the original show before starting work on this one with Zach brining that same lovable energy that made the character work so well in the original show and bringing it to this show as well with this shows and while he might noy make you cry in this show his performance in this show does feel like a natural progression of what he was doing with the same character in the original show acting really being helped by the fact that this shows scripts are just so good that all this shows actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to rise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very show.
This show like the original shows either lives or died on its characters and thankfully the characters in this show are just as good as the characters that we got in the first eight seasons of the original show. As all of the new characters in this show are written with the same amount of care and love that the original shows characters got on both this show and the original show and while yes some of the new characters don't get alot of the spotlight as others do with the show mainly focusing on Dr. Samantha "Sam" Tosh , Dr. Asher Green , Dr. Amara Hadi and Dr. Dashana Trainor this is something that is kind of understandable as this show does have a big cast of characters and therefor some characters will get more focus then others. However alot of the characters that don't get alot of attention are more often then not the funniest characters of the show like the two new nurses they always have something funny to say and any scene that even just one of them is in has comedy gold in it and yet neither of them gets alot of focus with the same thing even being true for Dr. Kevin Park as he hates J.D. for getting the chief of medicine job and yet we barely see him in the show and yet whenever he does appear in the show we get some genuinely funny moments. This was something that was always going to be a balance as the show did have to balance returning characters and seeing fan favorite characters come back as well as setting up the new characters and while the balance is very well done with it seeming like an even split between the two sets of characters there are times where it does skew a little bit more towards the older characters which is fair enough as that's the characters that the die fans have back to see but if the show wants to have a future then it needs to invest more time in it's newer characters as well as its lder characters.
Like some of the good reboots / revivals like for example Wizards Beyond Waverly Place this show does maintain what it was that made the original show work so well in the first place and unlike Malcolm In The Middle: Life's Still Unfair this show doesn't change anything about what made the show work in the first place. As while this show doesn't make you burst out crying as much as the original show did it does still maintain that heart and that spirit when it would have been very easy for the makers of this show to change everything about what it was made the original show work in the first place and just slap the Scrubs name on it to get some recognition which is something that shows like for example the Punky Brewster revival and the Saved By The Bell revival did as both of those shows feel like totally different shows when compared to there original counterparts. This is something that makes it obvious that the makers of this show were fans of the original show with the show on the whole taking on the feel of it being made for the fans by the fans as it basically is the next episode of the original show something which can to a much more lesser extent be said to Wizards Beyond Waverly Place as well as while that show hasn't fully embraced the original shows fans and given them alot of what they want they did at least take the original shows characters in new and interesting directions which is something that this show did do as well and while the fans myself included won't agree with some of those directions they are still things that do work within the context of the show with even those change of directions feeling true to the spirit of the original show and it's characters with it being something that even before this final episode aired the fans where already begging them to renew this show for more episodes as that's how well done that this show is.
It's not all sunshine and roses for this show tho as the show does get alot of things wrong like for example they not only somehow make the world feel smaller by mainly setting these nine episodes in the hospital but they also set up characters and then do nothing with them. With a good example of this being the Wes character who was set up as a new boyfriend for Elliott and yet he straight up disappears after a few episodes of the show and is never seen or even mentioned again which would have been one thing if they say that Elliott dumped him or if he dumped her but they don't they just stop featuring his character all together which makes his scenes in earlier episodes now feel pointless as we now know that there not going to add up to anything meaningful in this show. Going back to them making the world of the show feel smaller by that I mean when you look at the original show we had a huge range of locations with alot of the episodes featuring those same locations this had the effect of making the world of the show feel more bigger then what it was and yet here all of the apartment scenes that we would have gotten in the original show we now no longer get and the bar that the characters would frequent at the end of an episode now only appears at the end of this last episode this makes the world of the show now feel more compact as we only have the one major location and while yes we do see other locations briefly in other episodes they are exactly that there brief and aren't main locations that we ever visit again in the rest of the show. This is something that very well could have been a budgetary issue which if so fair enough but there still should have been some kind of work around where we did get to see more locations like for example one of the interns apartments would have been nice to see as it could have given any of there characters some more depth to them.
There was one thing that did kind of bug me about the final episode that being the fact that they have a character straight up admit that they love another doctor with this being something that did come out of thin air. As while yes it was hinted at earlier on in the season that was quite a few weeks ago and the show never brought it up again until the very end of this episode when something like this could have made for a very sweet romance between the pair instead they have one of them fall in love with someone else and show them having a fling with there romance being sweet but then at the start of this episode one of the dumped into the dreaded friendzone. With this again coming out of nowhere when something that is this big and important to two characters should have been explored alot more in earlier episodes as you very well could have gotten alot of good comedy and drama out of that part of the show and that is something that the original show would have done and would have done wonderfully and yet for once reason or another they don't do it here. Speaking of relationships one of the things that I think alot of people again myself included was afraid that they were going to do with a certain couple thankfully didn't end up happening in this season of the show which is great as it's something that we saw play out several times in the original show and it got boring by the end of it so much so that even the original show had to call out just how tired and repetitive that that storyline had become and while the show did tease that they would once again go to the well and do this storyline they thankfully don't as that is something that would have been really tiresome to see played out for the countless time.
Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty two minuets and six seconds. Which to be fair tho this show is pretty much the bogstandard running time of not only this episode but also the show as a whole with this episode having more then enough plot there to cover that amount of running time as all this episode is mostly resolving THAT big cliffhanger ending from the previous episode and that's really it and it therefor didn't really need a long running time but even so this episode as a whole didn't really use it's running time all that wisely due to the fact that it didn't really fully develop it's plot with alot of the episodes running time being stuck to having two beloved characters from the original show show up and while only one of them adds something to the plot of this episode the other one doesn't this is despite the fact that it was fun seeing both characters again and seeing there interactions with the characters being just as a fun as they were in the original show yet those character do eat up alot of screen time which could have been better spent on making this episodes plot be all the fulfilling then what the ending of last weeks episode made it out to be. This is something that does kind of effect the shows characters as well as while it could be argued that none of the shows characters needed character development due to them being in the other episodes of the show alot of the interns still feel underdeveloped as the show really didn't give us the chance to get to know them as characters with this being something that show does need to address if it does get a second season as while it is great seeing the old faces again there's only so long that seeing them will get the fans invested and therefore the makers of this show do need to devote time to fully developing there newer characters inorder to make them just as good as the original shows characters were but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured /presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good. This show when it was originally on the air had some very sharp comedy and that is something that it very easily could have lost in the decades since the final episode aired but thankfully that sharpness and that talent for creating funny characters that give you comedy gold is no only back but it's just as good as it was in the original eight seasons of the show as the shows nineth season is one that is just an unfunny mess of a season that the Scrubs fans don't like to talk about and for good reason. With the funniest joke in the entire show being something that happens in the final moments of this last episode and it's something that won't be revealed here in this review as it is something that is really funny and does stay true to who J.D. is as a character but what will be said is that it involves J.D. and a character from his past starting something up again from J.D.s past which is just such a funny idea as J.D. is known for putting his foot in his mouth alot of the time and to see him do it again is something that does make alot of sense as well as it being a really funny scene in it's own right. With that joke being one of many that doo make this show once again feel like the original show as while we don't get Cox calling J.D. a girls name or any funny Dr. Cox rants we do get alot of funny jokes with the newer characters which is something that does make then make for it
Overall this is a show that should be used as the blueprint on how to do a revival as it captures alot of what made the original show work so well in the first place with it's writing , characters and comedy and yet isn't afraid to try and do new things with those same characters either and while yes there are few things that the show gets wrong heck it could even be argued that the show doesn't quite stick the landing but this is a case where the show gets just as much right as it does wrong in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very show in this very review and as such that really does mean that the episode earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 while the show on the whole earns itself a grand old score of exactly an 8.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very show that I used in this very post being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very show with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.
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