Has she appeared yet this season?

So we now have 2 or 3 threads about the numbers and a realization that this revival could be easily taken away from us after showing a lot of promise with the launch earlier this year. Aside from what we can do about that by watching it live (for our US fans) and stream it later (for US + a lot of internationals on Disney+ or wherever Hulu is accessible to you), I’d love to understand what is going on here.

So everyone who posts here has a Reddit account and most I would think frequent this particular subreddit. I can also safely assume you are a fan of Scrubs if you had put in the time to not only stumble upon these threads, but also to respond. Now I’ve seen many fans claim that they had no idea a 2nd season had started until the 3rd episode, last few days / week or actually because of a particular thread posted in the last 24 hours or so.

Now on top of this being very odd for people with a Reddit account who follow the revival to claim, since there’s so many ways to follow Scrubs news (Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, rewatch podcast, TikTok) there’s the bigger issue of people feeling the need to react to not the best viewing numbers and subsequently turn their dislike, anger and or fear of the revival getting cancelled, into an excuse to say the show should not have returned this soon, that the quality is shit, even last year fell off so they don’t even care that it’s still on and the like.

Now imagine if fans talk like this about a show they claim they love, what do we expect for new fans to think when they read all of that? And what do we think happens next? The show to magically become something you like and praise again? And what do we feel it helps for ourselves and our fellow fans when we allow our own negligence to follow the show close enough to realize it has started again to lash out and almost out of spite claim you won’t watch it or will just wait to binge it, since you dislike the weekly schedule and not worth it to follow weekly?

Now, I am not saying you should watch it simply to up the numbers since we don’t even know how it’s doing internationally. or that ABC cares. And if you are not even interested in it anymore then please just acknowledge you are no longer a fan of the revival and of course we can respect your opinion, but don’t be surprised if we don’t value it in regards to the revival, since there’s clearly enough in it hat should at least make you interested enough to follow it and not dismiss it all together.

For those who followed the revival’s 1st season and thought it was bad, I’d sincerely ask you to reconsider since it’s improved in a lot of ways. From color grading to camera depth to allowing more screen time for the OG cast and less of the interns. And to those disappointed that they found out too late that a second season would come in 2026 and possibly even feel it’s too soon, I’d urge you to at least own up that it’s also your own responsibility to follow and that there’s no point in wasting energy on it being different.

The second season is here, it’s in full swing and the creators have taken our feedback and improved it. Has it been perfect? No. Does it have flaws and things we understandably can dislike or even be upset about as it doesn’t live up to expectations or not align with the previous iterations (that we liked)? Certainly. You are allowed to feel about this show or say about it what you want. I just hope people think twice about what they are saying, how it reflects on them, their fandom and what it says about what you wish for the future of Scrubs.

Truth of the matter is, the show is happening, right now. We should count our lucky stars we even got a revival in my opinion. That we have not just Turk and JD, but also Elliott on as a regular. That we get at least half of the 19/20 planned episodes this year with Carla, at least 7 with Cox who’s been given a great storyline to keep him around, that we have Hooch, The Todd and The Janitor still around.

We should be happy that we have a group of interns who can go toe-to-toe with any of the past groups. That we have Bill involved, Tim Hobert and Aseem Batra as show runners and or writers. That ABC allowed for a full rebuild of the hospital as it was etc. That we have Christa Miller picking out the music, which is a wonderful score to sell the emotion just like old time. That they are really trying to nail this revival and staying true to the show’s original run’s roots. It’s getting a lot of possible feedback from critics and named as one of the few revivals doing a good job at bring back the formula and still knowing what made the show tick and land with (most) fans.

And just like the second season improved on took fan feedback into account, they can do that again for a 3rd season. So even for that reason you might want to give it another chance and see if it lands and just express - preferably in a constructive way - what you like and dislike, what can be improved, what you wish for etc. And consider this, if this is the final season, then that’s it. The show is off the air and we get nothing like it ever again. Might as well enjoy the ride, even if a bumpy one. And you can always pretend this is just an alternate universe or a what if scenario, like the Med School season, and that the original season 8 ending is still the official one.

So all in all, do as you please, but read through the most recent threads about the viewing numbers and tell me that it’s not messed up how many people blame a combination of the show’s creators, ABC, Hulu, Disney+ with completely lack of self-reflection for the lack of better numbers and for you to not know there was a second season happening right now. Please consider other fans and how our opinions on it, like an echo chamber, could basically cause all this negativity to make fans dislike the fans and or the revival simply because of it.

And think about what this tells you about your fandom and state of the revival when you don’t put in the effort to follow and or watch it, yet have all these opinions about it that do not reflect the quality, does not respect the people involved in the revival and does not do us any good in the continuation of it.

I’m on s2e3 of the reboot and it’s making me laugh hysterically. I might like this might be better than reboot s1. I feel like I’m right back in high school. They really nailed it even with the new characters.