So this weekend I find myself sitting in a hotel room in Rochester NY. I’m here with my team for the frozen four. Our first game is at 7 and its only 1230 and I feel like I’ve been waiting forever for the game to start. Time is certainly not flying in my anticipation. I decided that this would be the perfect time to watch a new show and blog about it. Not really knowing what I wanted to watch this week, I asked one of my roommates if they could suggest any TV shows that they like. Modern Family was suggested first but since I have already watched that I had to use her second choice: Scrubs.
Scrubs was always a show that I’ve seen previews for but it never really grabbed my attention. However, I wanted to take her advice and decided to give it a shot. The show follows JD, who is an intern at Sacred Heart Hospital. What’s with the television formula of following interns through hospitals? To me, the show seemed like a shorter Grey’s Anatomy with a more comedic influence. Grey’s Anatomy is more of a drama and characters seem to take situations at the hospital more seriously than the characters on Scrubs, but the premise is similar. I’m sure if I continued to watch through the current ninth season, I would find JD becoming a skilled doctor, as we are beginning to see in Greys Anatomy.
One of the most unique parts of the show involves the daydreams of JD. They seem to show just how nervous he is about his new position. The daydreams are always really exaggerated and would never happen in real life but I think that they really give a unique flair to the show and give JD some depth as a character.
Something else that I noticed was that, in my opinion, the interns seem to be the more normal ones, whereas, the doctors seem to be somewhat neurotic and crazy. At one point JD says who’s the good guy in this experience? Well, in this episode, I would argue that JD and his fellow interns are the good guys and the doctors and people who are in positions of power are the villains. It’s an interesting way to frame the show, but I think that many people can probably relate to being low on the totem pole at their jobs, just like JD, and it probably is refreshing and comforting to watch everything play out.
Overall, the show was good, but not my favorite. If I had to rate it I would probably give it a 7 or so. That being said, it was a nice way to kill time and my game is now an hour closer.
I have never really gotten into this show, but have enjoyed it when I came across it on TV. I think your commentary that the doctors are written as crazier than the interns themselves is apt and is something that has allowed a comedy show about doctors to be so successful, working as a mockery of shows like Grey's.
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