Scrubs - The Complete Second Season
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Movie Reviews of Scrubs - The Complete Second Season
Movie Review: Love it!
Summary: 5 Stars
Scrubs is one of those underrated comedies that deserves a much bigger audience. The comedy is smart but silly. The show also has an amazing ability to move quickly between funny and serious, where you are laughing one moment and tearing up the next. Also, the characters are all wonderful (except maybe the janitor who sometimes gets repetitive) and I especially appreciate the close relationship between JD and Turk. I just can't say enough about how much I love this show.Movie Review: Another great season of a very original comedy
Summary: 5 Stars
There are few changes in the second season of Scrubs versus the first season, mainly because the formula works so well. As the season opens, J.D., Turk, and Elliot have just finished their internships and are entering their medical residency years. Also, Jordan, Cox's caustic ex-wife, has set the cat among the pigeons by outing her ex's crush on Carla (and Turk's knowledge of it), Elliot's crush on JD, Kelso's manipulation of Cox, and the fact that she has slept with JD - and it was "go-ood". The gang can barely look at one another - Turk and JD are forced to bunk together, Carla is huffing, Elliot is hiding under tables to avoid JD, and Cox is blowing steam through his nose everytime he sees Kelso.
In "My Nightingale", Dr. Cox tries to convince Jordan that they should reunite, and that he is not the same self-sabotaging person he was when they were married. However, Jordan leaves after she hears what is supposed to be an introductory speech praising evil Dr. Kelso that Cox turns into a roast. Fortunately for Cox, though, the audience misconstrues his remarks as sarcastic and humorous. The funniest part of this episode is the appearance of hospital lawyer Ted (Sam Lloyd) and his real-life acapella group spending an entire night-shift singing TV theme tunes, including upbeat renditions of The Six Million Dollar Man and Charles in Charge. You see, TV theme songs are their specialty. From that point forward, "The Blanks" are frequently featured in the show.
"My Fruit Cups" is a realistic episode about financial pressures that medical students face as Turk and J.D. periodically fill their trunk with hospital food - specifically fruit cups and pudding - to help make ends meet. The janitor is making J.D. sweat over this issue since he tells him he is investigating a number of thefts at the hospital. Only later do we find out he is investigating the theft of drugs, not food. Elliot, who up to now has had no financial problems since her father has been footing the entire bill, finds out that his generosity comes with a price - Her dad believes he has purchased the right to tell her what medical specialty to enter into. Meanwhile, Jordan has returned, obviously pregnant, but who is the father?
The J.D/Elliot relationship resurfaces when Elliot begins to feel alone and financially pressured for the first time in her life after her dad withdraws his support. On top of everything, she is being sued by a patient whom she wrongly diagnosed as having eight months to live when he winds up living longer than that. So she begins to have sex with JD in order to relax, until at some point they become sex buddies. JD begins to really like this no-strings set up until Turk tells him that at some point Elliot is going to search for sex sometime when her emotions are normalized and then J.D. will be back where he was with her last year. This leaves JD seeking a way to break up with her again.
"His Story" is probably my favorite episode of the season because it features the snarky Dr. Cox and has just the right amount of comedy and drama. First off, J.D. says for the first time, that he has no story to tell and Dr. Cox takes over the narration for a change. Thus the episode reveals a lot about the character of Dr Cox, with scenes such as his therapist telling him he'll end up all alone, the party that nobody turns up to with all that money spent on pizza, and Cox's reaction to JD leaving him. Combine this with such insanely random humor as Pancake Man and Johnny the tackling Alzheimer's patient and you have a nearly perfect episode.
Later in the season, J.D. finds himself attracted to Jamie, the T.C.W. (tasty coma wife), a woman whose husband has been in a coma for the past two years. He fights the attraction, but later the husband dies, and J.D. begins a relationship with her. Unfortunately, she gets bored easily, and J.D. finds out Jamie is a "drama queen" - in order to keep her interested he has to stir up some kind of trouble. However, when he runs out of ideas and tells her that he and Elliot are getting back together he realizes things have gone too far.
In summary, if you enjoyed Season One of Scrubs, you'll enjoy Season Two just as much or more.
Movie Review: You won't regret this purchase...
Summary: 5 Stars
That is, if you like to laugh! I was a bit late to discover this show (4th season), but quickly was hooked. Bought the DVD sets, and started showing them to friends...now they all own their own box sets, as well!
Nothing short of brilliant...the writing, the acting, the chemistry. The creativity of the actors and writers/directors/producers...is infectious (in a good way!)
Love This show!
Movie Review: So funny!
Summary: 5 Stars
The first three seasons of Scrubs were the funniest ones for me, and of those, this one is my favorite. The characters are nicely established, each with their own quirks and foibles, yet are still fresh and exciting, while the setting and the characters' predicaments are still different and interesting with enough scope for outlandish antics. Later seasons got a little tired as the characters/jokes didn't seem to have that many new places to go. For example, how long can it be funny for Dr. Cox to call JD Joanna? Originally that was funny and you were just dying to see what name he'd come up with next and what novel way he'd think of to emasculate JD - now... well, we've pretty much heard it all before.
This season is so funny though, with sharp dialogue, still fresh characters and situations, and off-the-wall humor to throw you into fits of laughter when you least expect it. Okay, you might say that when watching a TV comedy you do 'expect' to laugh, but do you? Do you really 'expect' to? I don't. Not with most of the garbage that's thrown at us these days. So to find something that legitimately makes me laugh is a very pleasant surprise and a wonderful treat.
My favorite characters are JD, Dr. Cox (of course), the janitor, and a much underrated bit-part player - Ted, the abused lawyer. All the other characters have their moments, but you'll find the best humor comes from the interplay of these guys.
If you want an idea of what it's like - think of the friendships of Friends mixed with the squabbling of Frazier (with Niles) set in a hospital run in a Faulty Towers fashion, with Terry Gilliam's stop-motion animation replaced by the live action of the characters' daydreaming. Yep, that's Scrubs for you!
If you've never seen Scrubs, it might take a little getting used to - such an odd group of dysfunctional individuals with such 'life and death' responsibilities - but once you get the hang of what's going on, I defy you to not laugh. And every so often they do throw you a curve ball and add a little sensitivity - the odd patient does die, and not in a funny way. But those serious asides add to its allure.
Scrubs is a modern day classic - cleverly written, with endearing characters, and sharp wit. Go on, treat yourself!
Movie Review: Jolly, cheerful and hilarious.
Summary: 5 Stars
Scrubs is just a heck of a lot of fun. Each episode is crammed as full as possible of jokes, commentary on humanity and talented comedians doing fresh bits and shenanigans. For your time and money you can bet no better value. Scrubs' writing is superiour--each story interweaves several other stories and brings all together in the end in comedic and occaisionally touching manner.
Once of the best things about Scrubs is that despite the fact that everyone gets made fun of, no-one is ridiculed. An example of this is when Turk starts pointing out who is sleeping with whom, ending up with two men who are sleeping together, rather than have that be the punch line--which would have been a cheap shot--his buddy JD thinks about that a moment and then says sweetly--"Oh, good--Ernesto found someone!"
Overall just have a great time with a wonderful series.