Is Scrubs Dying, without a Chance of Resuscitation?
Is Scrubs Dying without a Chance of Resuscitation? by Roxanne McDonald
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A reminder to watch the new episodes of “Scrubs” also brings a prediction that the re-runs will soon be all we have. |
I must be watching something waaaay more crucial to my TV-viewing habits, as I adore “Scrubs,” but forget to watch the new episodes as they come on—watching throughout the afternoon the other four or five re-run episodes…. So I am in one sense missing some great material evidently, and will miss the rest if I don’t get with it. Then again, maybe I’m not missing so much:
According to super critic Doug Elfman, in the Chicago Sun Times, the “Scrubs” season opener felt
“like the beginning of the end of itself.” Elfman acknowledges the moderately funny script, but suggests that the show is dying, what with the number of babies and pregnant women and the inappropriateness of their appearance in madcap comedy—where, he says, babies have no business being.
While the renown critic of entertainment for the masses does give credit—to Miller (who plays Jordan), to Braff, to “all the quirky twists” in the writing—he also points toward the possible demise of “Scrubs”, attributing his prediction to the weakening material (how Carla, Jordan, and Kimberly’s pregnant bellies “drag down the fun-loving joke-a-thon of fastly edited visual humor and verbal absurdities”) and to the fact that Zach Braff has announced plans to leave “Scrubs” to direct and act in movies.
Elfman suggests that is “Scrubs” dies, we still have “Family Guy” and “South Park.” I would contend that these shows are not really in the same league as “Scrubs,” but we will still have the five or six re-run episodes a day.
And then there are fine substitutes, such as “Dexter” and “Boston Legal” to lean on for the adult guffaws—sine the babies.
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