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Here is my review of the revival of Scrubs, streaming today on Hulu.

Notes in advance: I'm told that JD, Turk, and Elliot will return, which
likely means Carla won't. I disliked all three of these characters by
the time the show ended, since they just got sillier and sillier, but
they'll likely be scaled back to their mid-run personalities. There is
no mention of any characters from the oddball 9th season which should
have been a spinoff, which is probably just as well since most people
don't know them. I don't even remember the 9th season protagonist's
name. If Dr. Cox now runs the place and Dr. Kelso is still sitting
downstairs in the coffee shop hogging free muffins, that will be great.

Now, let's watch.

JD is now a doctor to the rich, though he misses hospital life. When one
of his patients is admitted to Sacred Heart, he returns to his old
stomping grounds as a visitor. Carla is there, despite not being in the promotional pictures, and is now the head nurse. JD and Turk try to do
the eagle spin, but it turns out they're too old now.

T-Mobile aired a commercial with JD and Turk -- not the actors, the characters. I haven't seen one of those since the 80s.

Elliot and JD have divorced. They're trying to get along for the sake of
their kids. Turk and Carla are still married, with four daughters, but
Turk is burnt out on medicine despite having become chief of surgery.
Dr. Cox is still the chief of medicine, but he's hamstrung re abusing
interns by a marvelous new character, Sibby, who keeps sending him to
training to consider others' feelings.

We meet the horrible Dr. Park, who is Dr. Cox' pet and who regards JD as
an idiot, as well as the inept new interns. Several people in this group
would probably enjoy how amusingly fragile the latest interns are.

Eventually, Dr. Cox asks JD to return. After he agrees, Dr. Cox then
makes him chief of medicine, much to the chagrin of Dr. Park.

In the second of the two episodes, we get a bit more development. The
new batch of interns is learning some of the same lessons medical
interns must always learn. JD watches from a new perspective -- that of someone who must keep the hospital running. In the past he always valued patient well-being first, working around the restrictions of the bean counters, but now he's the one responsible for making sure the hospital
still has beans left.

Overall, this is a good debut. They're not trying to redo the old show;
it's a sequel. They're acknowledging today's different environment and
are willing to make jokes about it. I'll watch more.
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