What’s so successful here is the way that the show genuinely feels like a continuation of the series.

This new season only proves that the series has a formula that can keep chugging along as long as the network wants. That, for ABC, is about as good as it gets for a revival. For the rest of us, the end result is mercifully enjoyable even if it’s not breaking the mold.

JD and Turk are still hanging out like old times when they can, and it's surprisingly nice for us to be hanging out with them again after so long too.

The 2026 version of “Scrubs” is a pretty solid piece of escapism, a return that feels almost like what the show would look like now if it never left the air.

With some of the zip of the original, and some of the heart too.

In 2026, “Scrubs” is still J.D.’s show, for better or worse.

It's not just that the new "Scrubs" is bad − though it is, from its corny "humor" to its trafficking in stereotypes, even as it tries to make fun of the PC police. It's that it is so cognitively dissonant from the world in which we live now.