TV-Reviewed

The employees of Sacred Heart are running wild without a Chief of Medicine around to keep things under control. Dr. Cox ends up being the first choice to give the job to, but it’s not clear whether he’ll take the job by the end of the episode or not. Meanwhile, J.D. and Elliot contemplate how their first night of sex will go.

This was another good episode of Scrubs. We’re reintroduced to the fact that Elliot and J.D are dating again and everything seems to be going smoothly, but the two still haven’t had sex yet. The writers have done a great job of making Elliot and J.D.’s relationship go smoothly this time without the soap-opera like drama that we’re used to seeing from the two of them — everything just feels normal for them. The only drama in this episode is that both of them are a bit scared what’ll happen when they have sex. This made perfect sense, because we know Elliot obsesses about everything, so it wasn’t a surprise when Carla is out of town that she would turn to the next person down the line who is Turk.

J.D. is still focusing his efforts on Jo, the insensitive intern. I have to say she’s been pretty unlikable since we’ve seen her as a character, but the writers do another good job of really getting us to empathize with her. It at first seemed like Jo didn’t care to be nice to patients, but she literally just has a hard time of doing it. Jo is starting to grow on me and hopefully on the rest of the audience too; it looks like J.D. made a good choice when he picked her as his protégé. It’s also cool the way that the two are polar opposites of each other, J.D. cares too much and Jo cares too little. It’ll be interesting to see how Jo will change by the end of the season and maybe J.D. will too.

John C. McGinley as Dr. Perry Cox

Dr. Cox has the opportunity to become the Chief of Medicine, which would seem like the perfect fit until you think about the downside which is tons of paper work and almost no contact with the patients. It’s a decision that Dr. Cox can’t take lightly, but with him in power, things might be different and it’ll be more about the patients than about whether the hospital can afford it. In the end, Dr. Cox took the position and it’ll definitely be a change to see Dr. Cox running things, it’ll also be interesting to see how the dynamic in the hospital will be affected and whether this job will change Dr. Cox as well.

Jo didn’t change very much, but the fact that she’s actually trying is satisfying enough and really turns her from an unlikable character to a character that we’re rooting for to find her more compassionate side and all of Elliot’s obsessing amounted to her realizing that sex will be perfect if the two are really in love with each other. In the end, J.D. was fine with Elliot in her cookie pants.

This was a good episode, and the writers are doing a great job putting so much into thirty minutes. We’re seeing the results of the last seven years in this season. We’re seeing how much the doctors of Sacred Heart have grown, but even though the writers are focusing on our main characters, they are doing quite a good job of developing the characters of the interns of this season.

Rating: 8.3