Just let the shows stay dead!
Ted Lasso was awesome and ended well but to drag it out of retirement for one last encore is never good. There are only two options - Hollywood ‘they win the championship’ which feels forced or they don’t win but learn lessons and we’re in the same place as last season.
You can’t recreate scrubs. They tried and failed and the same will happen here - bring back the old cast but they are much older now and it doesn’t work OR they recast it and everyone says “where are the old characters!?”.
To my eyes, scrubs is a coming off age early 20s, first big job, learning life and who-you-are kinda show so it has to be recast but getting that magic a second time will be nearly impossible.
Scrubs creator says “I need money”
I doubt it. His recent shows are Shrinking and Ted Lasso… Not exactly flops.
“I want money”
“that’s what I want”
No-lose unless you value creativity and original ideas.
Yeah but do those make money?
They probably would if Netflix wasn’t so trigger happy with the cancel gun…
Wasn’t there already a shitty scrubs reboot with like a university
Was the “9th” season noone likes talking about , premiered a year after the proper finaly . The plot was that the hospital was torn down and they built a training hospital thir , and the main cast partially came back to act as teachers or some shit , I think we all mostly blocked it out . It ended that season and noone wanted it back. They had a proper ending to the show and then shat all over it , so most fans will say it ended at 8. And fuck was it a good ending.
I seem to be in a minority that liked season 9. It obviously wasn’t the same scrubs, and season 8 was a perfect ending, but it wasn’t terrible either.
I didn’t hate 9
I dont think it was given enough chance to find itself. If it was properly treated as a spin off, it could have grown into something good.
I’m cautiously interested in the reboot, there is room for a light hearted medical TV show.
Scrubs starts off with our protagonist and his two close peers get their first jobs out of med school, and in that state they’re still a little bit goofy and childish and flawed and have a lot of growing to do.
So we start the spinoff (which it IS, even if it’s shipped as Season 9 of the original) with our new primary cast just starting med school, so they should be even less mature and even more flawed, which they are. They’re kind of miserable to be around so the audience finds it difficult to be on their side when they make those growth moments, you’d rather zip tie them to an old door and abandon them somewhere above the tree line.
They didn’t have time before the season was over to really make many of those strides, especially given the screen time given to JD and company.
Season one JD isnt everyone’s cup of tea either, my partner doesn’t like him. He grew on her though, which season 9 never got a chance to do.
I liked season 9 too and agree that it was finding its footing and believe it would’ve gotten there if they were given more time. I also feel like I’m in a minority about the whole spinoff vs not a spinoff thing. I understood what it was whether you called it Scrubs or something else and am a little baffled at how upset people got over that aspect.
In their defense it was supposed to be a spin off show but the studio forced them to play it as if it was another season. It wasn’t bad, not as good as Scrubs but I was entertained.
I didn’t like it, the new main character was just a female JD but without the charm.
This is the crux of the problem. “I wanna make a spinoff to this popular show.” “NO IT MUST BE THE NEXT SEASON” “I want to make a new show that’s like this 20 year old one but for modern audiences” “NO IT MUST BE A REBOOT”
brand identity is one hell of a drug.
I liked season 9. Not as much as the rest of the show, but it was good. It was just a different show at that point. It should have been a spin-off instead of a new season.
If I remember correctly, this was also around the writer’s strike and they wanted to do another season to make sure the people working to produce the show could still make money.
My understanding is that Bill Lawrence, the creator of the show, planned it as a spin-off, but ABC didn’t want that. It’s why it was also called “Scrubs: Med School” in some places.
The wiki goes into it a bit, but definitely a separate thing in my opinion - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrubs_season_9
Scrubs: Med School is an okay name for a spinoff. It’s in the same continuity and the same characters exist.
Agree with everything you said. S8 ended so perfectly. The first episode of s9 was still okay cause it featured JD heavily, but then he is barely in it at all. Zach Braff definitely made the show
Yeah but this is like 20 years on… you can reinvent the character with that kind of gap.
I live quietly in hope on this one.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrubs:_Interns
This maybe? I had never heard of it.
Can you please not destroy every single IP. Just make something called flubs and it will do just as shit.
Damn, I liked the show but get sick of seeing Zach Braff and his former bestie in commercials.
No way in hell do I want to try revisiting that. I’d just watch the old show.
He should be in jail for beating the fuck out of that teenager
