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Published on Thursday, August 23, 2001 - 2:13am |
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So What The Heck Is SCRUBS About'!
Hey, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab.
Here is a TV review from a man who calls himself Chachi.
Make of that what you will.
Hey, Moriarty...
Well, at least there's one hope for the fall, and it's called SCRUBS. I had
a not-so-great quality screener from an talent agency, but the show overcame
even the crappy VHS tape. It's a single camera (not sitcom) show that was
created by Bill Lawrence, one of the guys who did Spin City. The SCRUBS
pilot is about an emergency room intern named J.D. on his first day of work.
I guess you could say its setting is basically early ER with the high speed
comedic tone of ALLY McBEAL (when that show was kinda good in the early
days), with a bit of MASH (comedy & tragedy). Zach Braff (who was in the
indie movie The Broken Hearts Club and one of the Woody Allen flicks) plays
JD, and he has it all on his shoulders very successfully. He can go from
drama to pratfalls without missing a beat, and he has the energy and pathos
that a TV star needs to make you care about watching every week. The other
great thing is John C. McGinley, who has been playing high intensity assholes
for years (SWAT leader in Seven, head of FBI in Point Break), and he nearly
steals the show from everyone because, as well allowing McGinley to do his
usual funny jerk self, the writers have given him some dramatic moments which
play really nicely in contrast. The rest of the cast is really good too,
including Sarah Chalk (Roseanne) and Donald Faison (Clueless).
The show mostly happens from JD's perspective (with dead-on hysterical dream
sequence cutaways) about who to trust, who to have a crush on, and whether or
not he can actually be a doctor. Now that Noah Wylie has moved out of the
young doctor role into old mentor on ER, I think there's a space on TV for
the learning curves of being a doctor, except this time it's really funny.
It seems like the bite of the humor is toned down a half-step from what it
could be to be TV-safe (except for a few moments like when JD imagines
himself as a horny sitcom Dad), but it's still miles above everything else.
We'll see if they go the MASH way (with more drama, because this cast can
act) or if they just stick to the funny... either way, it's the best hope for
Must-See TV. There's potential for something great that would almost fit in
better on the HBO schedule than the Must-See TV schedule, and that's the best
compliment I can give it.
It's no Buffy or West Wing yet, but neither were they when they started...
hopefully they'll give a good show a chance...
Looking for my Joanie,
-Chachi
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Reader Talkback
interesting. by majorq007 | Aug 23rd, 2001 03:01:59 AM | let me be FIRST to say... by cozmicmonkeychow | Aug 23rd, 2001 03:02:58 AM | Scrubs Sucks!!! by meataicn | Aug 24th, 2001 02:39:30 AM | dear god... by Snowland | Aug 24th, 2001 04:29:39 PM | It's about all the guys TLC
slept with for crack money
before th by DarthSnoogans | Aug 24th, 2001 10:17:26 PM | Now, if they would only put
TED McGinley in it, that would
be a by DarthSnoogans | Aug 24th, 2001 10:21:22 PM | thank you oliver stone by redfoot28 | Aug 29th, 2001 10:59:01 PM | A keeper by Luigitoo | Feb 27th, 2003 05:35:13 AM |
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