elizabeth banks-related stories
Posted Apr 23rd 2009 11:04AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: OpEd, Scrubs, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free

(S08E16) We're in the homestretch now, folks. Things are advancing in the world of Sacred Heart. And when characters who've been living more or less the same lives for eight years all of a sudden get new jobs, urges to return to old ones, or pangs to move away, you know a finale is a-comin'.
It's kind of too bad, since this season has been pretty satisfying for the most part. As Bill Lawrence and his crew have gotten down to basics, the show has gotten funnier, more personal, and more dramatic (when drama is called for). In fact, this has probably been the best season since season four, and it's good to see that the show still has hilarious episodes like this one still in them.
Continue reading Scrubs: My Cuz
Posted Nov 2nd 2007 1:16AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: OpEd, Scrubs, Episode Reviews
(S07E02) Despite what I knew about this episode going in -- that it would be the one where J.D. and Kim finally have their baby -- I didn't expect it to be so warm-hearted and almost gimmick-free.
We've been hearing rumblings from Bill Lawrence, Zach Braff and company that the final season of
Scrubs was going to be more reminiscent of the show's earlier seasons, where there were flights of fancy but J.D. was a more realistic character and the fantasies weren't quite as outlandish. While last week's season premiere didn't quite reach those standards, this episode did. In fact, this felt more like one of those first half-dozen first-season episodes that were slower-paced and relatively restrained, and it was quite refreshing to see.
Continue reading Scrubs: My Hard Labor
Posted May 18th 2007 12:17AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: OpEd, Scrubs, Episode Reviews
(S06E21 / S06E22) Now that we know that
Scrubs is going to be back for a seventh season -- though from what we've all heard, the seventh season was all but assured, even if it was on ABC instead of NBC -- the way this season concluded made a whole hell of a lot more sense. Since I don't want to spoil anything for people who haven't seen the episode yet, I'll save my thoughts on that until after the jump.
You know what? I really shouldn't call this an "episode." Really, it was two episodes edited into one. You could just tell by the fact that the tried-and-true
Scrubs structure was run through twice here. Oh, that and the two different names and episode numbers. Those were also a good indication. Anyway, my point is that if the pacing of the episode felt weird to you, that's the reason why.
Continue reading Scrubs: My Rabbit / My Point of No Return (season finale)