A hospital is, in a way, the most morose carousel you could ever ride. Doctors and nurses are constantly bombarded with a number of arrivals and departures (in every sense of the term), making every minute of every day feel like a brand-new experience. But, as the recent return of Scrubs has shown, sometimes what you need to break up the daily onslaught of variables is a constant of comedy and (sacred) heart.The hit medical sitcom initially ran on NBC and ABC from 2001-2010, featuring performances anchored by an ensemble, including Zach Braff, Donald Faison, Sarah Chalke, John C. McGinley and others, who were able to walk the fine line of slapstick silliness and grounded realism. Earlier this year, for the show’s 25th anniversary, Sacred Heart Hospital reopened, as Scrubs returned for a tenth shift. While Braff, Faison, Chalke, and the team behind the scenes were more than eager to scrub in once more and go to work, they had no idea how a modern-day audience would perceive the show. Throughout the press leading into the new season, they vocalized that they were hopeful, but not confident that ABC would given them another set of episodes. It turns out, unlike J.D.’s trademark daydreams, the chances of renewal were not that fantastical. In April, two months into Season 1, ABC ordered another season of Scrubs. So, with their lifespan extended, it allowed the cast and crew to make some tweaks to a potential new set of episodes.
?SIGN UP for Parade’s Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox ? “I had some things I wanted to change,” Braff admits in an exclusive interview with Parade. “There was some fan uproar about the look of the show, understandably. Because what everyone got used to and loved was that the original show was shot on 16mm film. And that has a very distinct look that is pretty hard to emulate when you’re shooting without shooting film itself.“So I understood the critique. And one of the things I worked with on hard was with our cinematographer and our colorist. We changed the camera systems we were using. I really wanted to tip-toe the look a lot closer to matching the sort of contrast and saturation and grain of the old look. I really feel like we’ve leveled up the show a lot since Season 1.”Braff is the first to admit the enlarged role he’s taken on between seasons. Much like J.D. kicked off the return by ascending to becoming Sacred Heart’s Chief of Medicine, the actor is consistently on set, watching playback and offering script notes to serve as a leader both in front of and behind the camera. And Faison, for one, is happy for him to take charge.“As an actor on the show and someone who’s known him for half of my life, it’s actually refreshing to have somebody like that around,” Faison reasons. “Because I trust him, you know? Sarah trusts him. John C. McGinley trusts him. Judy Reyes trusts him. We know that he cares about this project just as much as we do, if not more. And so, because of that, it’s actually really good to have somebody like that around.”While the aesthetics will harken closer to the show’s original run, Season 2 of Scrubs (which premiered with its first two episodes on Wednesday, Sept. 30) does still bring in a healthy dose of new. Particularly when it comes to finding a foil to J.D. (Braff), who took over last season as Sacred Heart’s Chief of Medicine.“We wanted to find another thorn in J.D.’s side to add some more conflicts,” Braff explains. “So we brought in John Higgins, who’s a very funny comedian, to be a resident that is underneath J.D., but isn’t intimidated by J.D. or putting up with any of J.D.’s shenanigans. In a way that J.D. was a thorn in Cox’s side, well, what would it look like to see a thorn in J.D.’s?” One of the few cast departures between Seasons 1 and 2 is another foe of J.D.’s in Dr. Park. The conniving attending, played by Joel Kim Booster, lorded over Dr. Cox’s (McGinley) decision to put J.D. in charge, making him his perennial nemesis through the first batch of episodes. But, while Booster wasn’t able to film Season 2 due to scheduling commitments, Braff feels, the way things were going, the Park rivalry was on the way out to begin with.“To be frank, it was one of the things we were diagnosing was, ‘Well, it just seems like J.D. and Park are going to get along,’” he reasons. “He’s wonderful, but we need a nemesis a bit. And Bill Lawrence said he’d like the thorn in some of the conflicts to come from a younger person in the spirit of the J.D./Cox relationship. What does a J.D. look like to J.D.? And so it was Bill’s idea to pivot the nemesis to John Higgins’ character.”
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Related: Breakout ‘Scrubs’ Actor to Return for Revival Series in First Acting Appearance in 17 Years: ‘We Would Love to Have Him Back’Season 2 will see a bolster to some familiar faces, as well. The first two episodes have already shown that Dr. Cox will go from a fundamental part of Sacred Heart to one of its patients, undergoing treatments for his autoimmune disorder. And more residents from the original run of the show will be popping in, including Johnny Castl and Scott Foley as inept intern Doug and Elliott’s ex Sean, respectively.“I reached out to him,” Braff reveals on getting Foley back on the show. “I said, ‘Well, the fans love you. We love you.’ Nothing makes me laugh more than watching J.D. hate Sean. So I just reached out to him and said, ‘Will you do this? We’d love to have you.’ And I pitched him a little funny arc, and he said, ‘That’s hilarious. I’m in.’”Of course, any return or revival of a classic TV show kickstarts a firestorm of comments from the internet about which cast members should show up with the energy of a defibrillator. But when it comes to picking and choosing who will come back in the 2020s version of Scrubs, whether it be for an arc or a one-off cameo, it’s much easier said than done.“There’s two sides of it,” reasons Faison. “There’s the group that’s like, ‘I want back in.’ And then there’s the side of it where it’s like, ‘Well, I want back in, but it has to be the right thing for me. I’m not just going to come back.’ If that were the case, you’d see everybody, right?”“But also we don’t have the space,” adds Braff. “I mean, we have the show without commercials is 21 minutes and 30 seconds. The fact that the amount of characters are serviced in almost every episode is crazy. And that’s credit to Aseem Batra, our showrunner, and her team of brilliant writers. The other day, we had a table read, and I said, ‘I cannot believe how many characters have a story in this episode.’ It’s really unbelievable. So we want some of these people to come in and out. But at the same time, we’re at capacity!”“We try and get all the beloved people. And if we keep going in a third season, we’ll keep doing that. But it is hard. You can’t have John McGinley come in and not give them a meaty story. You can’t have Richard Kind come back, which we’re working on, and not give him a juicy story. So all of these people, it’s a lot to do in 21 minutes.”You can check out all the shenanigans of the teeming shores of Sacred Heart with Scrubs on Wednesdays at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on ABC and next day on Hulu.
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