about Film and TV
May 7, 2009 7 Comments
I always hate to lose one of favourite TV shows, watching those final episodes of your favourite shows brings up so many emotions. My life is centered around watching TV shows, I become so invested in them that losing them is like losing a best friend. That might sound corny or stupid but that’s the way it is. That goodbye, you hope will be amazing. You hope for the show to go out in style.
January 7, 2009 2 Comments
I had to write something once I finished watching the first two episodes of season 8 of Scrubs which aired last night. We all though that Scrubs now belongs on ABC and that this was supposed to be the final season. Though the fate of the show is up in the air. Both Zach Braff and creator Bill Lawrence stated that season 8 will be their final year. ABC want to continue the show and you can’t blame them because it’s cheap to make and gets decent ratings. Can the show continue without Braff? A show losing it’s main character is never good. Though it all depends on what other characters remain. Right now the future is uncertain but I have to give my thoughts on what I thought of the first two episodes of the eighth season.
This isn’t a review of sorts, I won’t be reviewing the show every week. I just wanted to state my feelings of what I thought of the episodes.
I loved them both. The first episode “My Jerks” set up the season great, introducing the new Chief of Medicine (Courtney Cox) who fits in perfectly within the world of the show. The episode also introduces the new interns, though it seems to heavily focus on them with less screentime for the other main characters. The second episode “My Last Words” is a spectacular display of a classic Scrubs episode that pulls at the heartstrings. A type of episode which has sadly been missed recently, it reminded me a lot of the early years of Scrubs. An emotional, heartfelt story played out brilliantly with great acting from Braff, Faison and Glynn Turman who played George Valentine (The Wire fans will know him as Clarence Royce).
The improvements can be seen. The show is a lot darker in contrast, the look of how the early seasons used to be. Gone are the bright colours that saturated the later seasons, I welcome back the darker tone. I was never a fan of how colourful the show had become.
I feel very optimistic of the eighth season. I can see that Lawrence and everyone involved with the show want to show us that they can get back the glory years. They want to make sure that the show isn’t passed it, whenever this is the final season or not, it doesn’t matter. This season might remind us why we fell in love with the show to start with.
