Scrubs: Complete Sixth Season DVD Review (2007)

Smart, well-balanced lunacy with an undercurrent of romantic and dramatic tension that cuts through the laughs.

In the halls of Sacred Heart Hospital, where the series takes place, the joke is that nothing is as sacred as it should be.

Everything here is free to be lampooned--hypochondriacs, love, cancer, you name it--but the writers know that there are consequences to such behavior, and they deliver the fallout.

That is particularly in this season, which features the unexpected death of a well-known character.

What's admirable about the show is that it consistently is trying for something new, and while it doesn't always succeed in its leaps of faith, it does try (such as in the well-done episode performed as a musical), which on television is becoming something of a rarity.

With Zack Braff, Donald Faison and Sarah Chalke, the characters and the show play like a bizarro version of "E.R." It courts the genre, appreciates its elements, and then turns all of it on its side.

Grade: B+