Scrubs just didn’t work without J.D. and his friends at the center of the action.
Scrubs was a sitcom that put a new spin on the hospital TV show, and the first eight seasons follow Zach Braff’s J.D., his friends, and his co-workers at Sacred Heart Hospital.
The Season 8 finale was originally intended to be the series finale, and it was an emotional rollercoaster that would have closed out the show in a wonderful way.
Unfortunately, the show came back for a ninth season that moved the action to a med school, starred an almost entirely new cast of characters, and failed to recapture the magic of the first eight seasons.