Finally after not only years of waiting after the dreadful ninth and final season of the show we can now officially say that Scrubs is back on the air. As the first two episodes of this show which really is being billed as both a revival of the original show and the next season of the original show as well and well you all just knew that I had to check out these two episodes the very first chance that I got and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FREE first impressions of the show that sees our favorite nurses and doctors return older but none the wiser with the show in question being called simply just "Scrubs" enjoy.
The plots of these first two episodes is in "My Return" J.D. finds himself back at his old hospital when a patient is admitted there and when he's there he gets offered a job that he can't possibly refuse and in "My 2nd First Day" J.D has to learn then in his job he won't be able to please everyone. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episode was in all honesty really good with both episodes having plots that get us used to the new status quo for the rest of the season whilst also introducing new fans to this wacky and crazy show and while the plot of the second episode is a little thin with it also being a carbon copy of the plot from an episode back in season eight it is still a really good plot as while episode one dd have alot of heavy lifting to do as it had to explain to new fans who these characters and then tell the older fans where they are now in there lives and in there careers episode two's plot was allowed to be alot more fun due to the fact that all of the heavy lifting was done in the first episode but in saying this tho "My Return" definitely had the more stronger of the two plots tho something which just wasn't the case with episode two and yet the same time the plot for episode didn't really suffer because of it as it did feel more like classic Scrubs something which is something that could be said for the first episode as well with the plots of both of these episode being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in these episodes is the first episodes director and 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 episodes is one of this shows executive producers Donald Faison as Dr. Chris Turk , John C. McGinley as Dr. Perry Cox , Judy Reyes as Nurse Carla Espinosa , Robert Maschio as Dr. "The" Todd Quinlan , Phill Lewis as Dr. Hooch , Vanessa Bayer as Sibby Wilson , Joel Kim Booster as Dr. Kevin Park , Ava Bunn as Sam Tosh , Jacob Dudman as Asher Green , David Gridley as Blake Lewis , Layla Mohammadi as Amara Hadi and Amanda Morrow as Dashana Trainor.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episode was in all honesty really good. With al of these episodes actors turning in some really good performances with all of the returning actors even those that just appear in cameos throughout these two opening episodes slip right back into character almost as if they just got through playing them yesterday with it being painfully obvious that all of the original series actors still have this wonderful chemistry together which is something that was to be expected from both Zach Braff and Donald Faison as they did become best friends after the show started and even have a podcast together and while the acting does somewhat dip when it comes to the shows more newer characters this is to be expected as they are still trying to find there characters with the best actor in both of these episodes being Donald Faison as he gets this really deep and emotional speech in episode one that just pulls of so well with it working because of the fact that we the audience had had years to get to know his character with his performance in both of these episodes being a true masterclass of acting with the acting that's in these episodes really being helped by the fact that the scripts for both of these episodes was just so good that all these episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out f naturally as that's just how good that the acting is in these episodes.
Whilst it would be super easy to talk about the older characters this show is also going to live or die on if the shows newer characters are any good or not. As alot of people will know if they like the older characters due to having spent years with them in the previous seasons and yet we are only just now meeting these new characters ad to eb fair the new characters so far do seem to be pretty good characters and while it will yes of course be to early to tell on if there good characters that people will like it or not as these are only the first two episodes of the show right now things are looking good as they are a pretty entertaining bunch of characters with alot of them even getting the spotlight in the first episode and while of curse people are going to like the older characters alot more then the newer ones it is still nice to see that this show can still give us good and more importantly funny new characters as these new characters to tackle modern day issues in ways that aren't as subtle as they would have been in the original show but are still pretty fun to see get tackled in the first episode and while of course it would have worked out really well if these first two episodes did have more older returning characters in it that is something that would then cause new fans to be put of by the show and therefor these first two episodes do have to strike that balance between giving us comedy gold with the older characters and also giving more dramatic moments with both the old and the new characters as that is the only way that this show would be able to survive as relying on nostalgia and call backs will get you so far before it starts to feel cheap.
Pretty much as was to be expected in the first episode there is alot of nostalgia to be found just un the first episode alone. As we do get alot of call backs to moments from the first episode of the original show and we of course get alot of returning characters as well all of which was fun to see as it reminds us older fans of why we loved Scrubs so much to begin with as it had that old school Scrubs feel to it something which could even be said for the second episode as well and the fact that they filmed this show in Vancouver and yet they made it look like the actual hospital that they used for filming of the original show is something that does help with that as it does make it feel like that this is the next season of the show with everything looking just how you remember it looking back in the early 2000's and yet at the same time these episodes do now that you can't just relay on people's nostalgia as while yes it was great to see more modernized version of the shows iconic intro complete with the original theme song there are also alot of new elements that help to make the show feel new again as outside of all of the new characters alot of which are going to become fan favorites we also get to see different parts of the hospital that we never got to see in the original as the whole show was filmed inside one disused hospital which does mean that we never got to see alot more of the hospitals other rooms yet that's something that we got to see in episode two of this show with us even getting to see some small amount of gore something which would never have been seen in the original show yet because of the fact that this show is also airing on Hulu it means that we can now see it and it's these types of new things that will hopefully keep people coming back for more episodes.
Without giving away to much of what's happened to alot of the returning characters there are some things that just don't work in these first two episodes. With it being reveled in episode one that J.D. and Elliot got divorced which does mean that we're most likely getting there love story told all over again which was something that was played out by the end of the shows eighth season and it's something alot of the older fans might not want to see told to us again in this new season as we've already seen that story several times over in several of the past seasons of the show with it being something that doesn't make sense as we do find out that J.D now has a daughter who could be Elliots kid with another thing that doesn't work being the fact that it does seem like they toned down The Todd when if anything this character should have been kept the exact same way as the whole joke with his character is the fact that everyone in the hospital knows that he's a pig and yet he himself doesn't know that therefor it make no sense for him to become this toned down character but in saying that the only way that you could do this character in this day and age would be this more toned down version as the original version of the character just wouldn't fly with today's audience yet there still should have been some effort to make him still be himself and yet also be a character that the audience of today might not hate as they won't know the main joke with his character they'll just know him from the few appearances that he makes in these two episodes ad that's really it and while yes there is a chance that we get to see more of the old Todd in future episodes it is something that we should have seen in these first two episodes as he is well liked side character.
As with the original show both of the first two episodes of this new season do find a way to balance both comedy and drama really well. With both of the episodes having lots of moments that will make you laugh out loud but then especially in episode one there will be a moment where a character gets to see something that's really dramatic and it works really well as it feels perfectly true to who that character is with the best example of this being Turk as again without giving away to much he does get to say that he's feeling burnt out after spending many years at working at the hospital and not really having anyone there to just laugh with and have fun which was a really sweet moment as it does feel true to who he is as a character as while yes he does get alot of the shows more funny moments he does also have this softer side that very rarely if ever comes out which makes it all the more special and dramatic when it does come out and given the fact that he spent alot of season 9 without his best friend and just working at a teaching hospital it does make sense that he would start to feel burnt out something that it could be argued is made worse by the fact that he only has daughters and no sons which might seem odd to say but Turk is the kind of character who could old really open up when he's around J.D and given that he hasn't seen him for years at least not fully then it does make sense that he would feel burnt out with that being something that alot of people do start to feel at somepoint in their lives and it's not just Turk either as the one of the new interns without knowing it causes a patient to die something which he does blame himself for with it taking all of the new interns to come around and tell him that there was nothing that he could do to help make him feel all right again.
Now then episode one of this show has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty two minuets and twenty seven seconds whilst episode two of this show has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty minuets and forty six seconds. With both of these episodes having some really solid running times to them as those are the running times that you'd expect to find in a classic episode of the show as well with both of these episodes having the right amount of plot there to cover there respective running times and yet in saying this episode episode one doesn't really use it's running time all the wisely as the episode spends alot of time in telling what the characters have been up to rather then giving us a well developed which granted was something that was always going to be an issue with episode two not really having that problem as that episode has more of a well developed plot with this being because of the fact that the first episode did alot of the heavy lifting and therefor episode two would have had more room to develop it's plot and yet both of the episodes don't take the time to fully develop any of the characters which is fair enough for the returning characters as they had all of the previous seasons to get there character development and yet none of the new characters get nothing in the way of character development which you could argue is fair enough as this is the only start of this new season and therefor there of course not going to be getting any character development in these two episodes it still would have been nice if they got something in the way of character development but I really will admit that these two episode really do have some really good pacing to tho them.
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 these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good. With both of these episodes having jokes that are laugh out loud funny as they all feel true to the episodes characters as well as the spirit of the original show with these new episodes retaining the original shows wit with both of the episodes retaining the original shows wit and style of humor by making great use of dream sequences all of which do really well in these episodes with the best joke in both of the episodes being when J.D and Carla first meet back up with her asking him if Turk knows that he's there something which J.D denies only for the episode to cut to Turk sniffing out that J.D is there which is a funny joke as it is something that either character would do as it's something that does highlight just how much that they love each other as friends with even the new interns getting some really funny moments as well which is something that does make them out to be really funny characters as well with all of the characters across both of the episodes having at least one joke that is laugh out loud which is something that was unexpected and yet it was something that did make both of these episodes be all the more funnier then what they really should have really been with all of the jokes in these episodes really making the show feel alot more classic Scrubs as that's how well that all of these episodes jokes really are in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall no matter how bad these new episodes turn out to be they can't be any worse then the whole of season 9 as that season was just an awful season f this show with these new episodes doing a fantastic job of reminding us of just why Scrubs was so good in the first place 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 these very episodes in this very post and as this is only my first impressions of this revival there won't be a rating given but if i'm still watching the show when the final episode airs then I will do a review of the revival as a whole.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post 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 post from Amazon . Co . Uk , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episodes 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 these very episodes 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.