TV-Reviewed

Every now and then a show comes along that you can identify your life with; A show where you really start to get involved in the relationships going in the show and you connect with the people in it, For me Scrubs is that show and it’s with great pride and honor that I review this final episode of Scrubs. I’ll admit that I knew that this episode would be great, I didn’t know how Bill Lawrence would do it, but I knew he would and I’m happy to report that I wasn’t disappointed.

We start the episode off at the beginning of J.D.’s last day and it’s only right since the very first episode started off from the very beginning of J.D’s first day. What I liked about this episode is that for the most part it was just like every good episode of Scrubs in that J.D. still had to work and the world didn’t just stop, because the star of the show was leaving. I actually liked the case of J.D. treating a mom with Huntington disease and then him having to tell the son that he too could have it. I’ll admit this storyline was kind of ripped off from House, and to be honest, it wasn’t done as well simply because we didn’t have enough time to connect with the patients, but you really can’t go wrong when you deal with Huntington’s disease.

Zach Braff as Dr. John ‘J.D.’ Dorian

The best part was seeing everyone react to J.D. leaving, and for the most part it was lackluster. We had a great sendoff from Carla, several goodbyes from Turk, and we didn’t get a goodbye from Elliot because she had been sneakily moving things into his apartment anyway. We even got a good send off from Jordan and the Janitor. The Janitor was hilarious in his pursuit of trying to get J.D. to admit that it was him who put the penny in the door and even better when J.D. admitted and then the Janitor admitted that he had saw the whole thing. It’s funny to think that if J.D. would have just admitted that he put the penny there that the Janitor would have just left him alone. It was also great to learn that the Janitor’s real name was Glenn Matthews and then hear someone else call him by a totally different name.

I think what I was most interested was to see how Dr. Cox would react and he reacted in the typical way most of the episode pretending like he didn’t care that J.D. was leaving at all. It was also pretty cool that J.D. made him a book with all his rants in there and makes you wonder exactly where he found the time to do it. It took all episode, but with some good thinking from J.D. and some great acting by Sunny we finally got a declaration of love and trust from Dr. Cox, in one of the better speeches.

I loved the ending also that had J.D. fantasizing about his future and it was a great future to think about. It felt so real that one has to wonder if we’re supposed to assume that this is their future. I guess we’ll have to. The part where we got to see some of the characters from over the seasons was cool too, even though I would have loved to see Tara Reid and Brendan Fraser who I thought were sone of the most defining guests on the show.

It was definitely one of the best finales that I’ve seen. I think I’ll miss the characters and the relationships that they share with each other, because I think these actors and their characters have some of the best charisma of any show on television. Scrubs might have not had the ratings of a classic show like say Friends or Cheers, but I personally think its better than both of those shows and should go down as one of the best shows on TV. While the show will be undergoing a change next season, I’m looking forward to see what Bill Lawrence will do with the Scrubs legacy for next season.

Scrubs is one of the best shows and it’s been really great to not only be able to write and review it for so many seasons, but to be a fan of the show. It was a great finale and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what I’m giving this episode.

Rating: 10