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Critic Reviews
Mar 20, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Even though Scrubs is the best of the season's new comedies, it may not have the most laughs. But oh mama, it has the most heart. Scrubs is to the average sitcom as a steak at the Palm is to a Big Mac. We are talking an entirely different, and superior, species. [2 Oct 2001, p.C01]
Mar 20, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Scrubs is sharp on every level, from script, direction and editing to the well-chosen, handsome cast and the employment of nonreal sequences. [1 Oct 2001, p.4]
Mar 20, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Sarcastic yet engaging, edgy yet heartfelt. [2 Oct 2001, p.E1]
Mar 20, 2013
Season 1 Review:
But most importantly, Scrubs has heart. Not the forced, icky sentimentality so often found in sitcoms, but earned moments that feel genuinely poignant. [2 Oct 2001, p.D-1]
Mar 20, 2013
Season 1 Review:
One of the best new series this fall. [2 Oct 2001, p.C04]
Mar 20, 2013
Season 1 Review:
For the first time in a long time, NBC has a new sitcom that really is must-see TV. [2 Oct 2001, p.C08]
Mar 20, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Although the humor begins broadly, it grows on you as you adjust to its rhythms, and ultimately you hear yourself laughing out loud. This is easily NBC's best new series. It's also one of those distinctive comedies in which everything meshes. [2 Oct 2001, p.C2]
Mar 20, 2013
Season 1 Review:
The humor is dark, and the editing is fast-paced and often non-linear. The visual sensibility heightens the surreal quality of life and death with young Dr. Dorian as he careens like a bumper-car through his shift. [2 Oct 2001, p.1E]
Mar 20, 2013
Season 1 Review:
John C. McGinley is a comedic genius. While series lead Zach Braff tries to channel Tom Cavanagh from "Ed" in this single-camera, laugh-track-free comedy about young doctors-in-training from "Spin City" co-creator Bill Lawrence, it's character actor McGinley ("Wall Street") who owns and almost singlehandedly carries the show in his supporting role as mentor Phil Cox. [2 Oct 2001, p.47]
Mar 20, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Once it relaxes, however, Scrubs turns out to be a thoughtful show that has dispensed with a laugh track and proves amusing enough not to need one. (Now, let's dispense with those fantasies.) Shot with a single camera in a former hospital, it aims for the exaggerated realism and the light-meets-dark tone of "M*A*S*H" -- a worthy ambition even if it doesn't get there. [2 Oct 2001, p.F1]
Mar 20, 2013
Season 1 Review:
That sincere desire to serve is key. In the wrong hands, Scrubs could have been another mean-spirited juvenile comedy about smart-aleck, self-absorbed, barely post-collegiate yuppies -- which is the impression you may have gotten from NBC's inexplicably unpleasant promos. But Lawrence takes pains to show us that these doctors take their jobs seriously, an essential task accomplished without sacrificing any of the humor. In a sense, the show is a flashback to M*A*S*H, both in its look (Scrubs is shot without an audience) and in the way it blends laughs with life-and-death emotion.
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Mar 20, 2013
Season 1 Review:
It's a deliciously post-modern and surreal sitcom that succeeds both on a silly and an intellectual level. [2 Oct 2001, p.46]
Mar 20, 2013
Season 1 Review:
I would say give them a chance. What else are you going to do for a half-hour after "Frasier"? [2 Oct 2001, p.B27]
Mar 20, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Sometimes you just have to know when to stop. Scrubs is still learning. [2 Oct 2001]
Season 9 Review:
Right now Lucy is just a wide-eyed innocent with eager-beaver ambition, but she's verging on dumb. In other words, the writers need to get a fix on that character fast, or she won't be someone to root for. Of the other newbies, I like the bratty, entitled Cole (Dave Franco, younger brother of some guy gueststarring on General Hospital) and grumpy Drew (Michael Mosley, a David Simon recruit from The Wire and Generation Kill).
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Mar 20, 2013
Season 1 Review:
The show comes off as too hectic, too cute, too edgy and not especially funny. [2 Oct 2001, p.E1]
Mar 20, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Fantasy and cute shtick are on overkill here; Scrubs would be better without those elements. [2 Oct 2001, p.8]
Mar 20, 2013
Season 1 Review:
A lot of the humor in Scrubs is sick. Many jokes are made at the expense of old people on the brink of death, or sitting comatose in a wheelchair. [2 Oct 2001, p.E3]
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