Binge Alert: The Best Medical Sitcom Since Scrubs Just Hit Netflix

Scrubs still sets the bar for medical sitcoms. The NBC-turned-ABC classic, led by Zach Braff’s Sacred Heart intern, wrapped in 2010 — and nearly 15 years later, it’s back in the spotlight.

If you miss the snarky heart of Scrubs but do not want a nostalgia play, there is a new fix. NBC quietly built a modern medical sitcom that does not chase legacy or reboot baggage, and now the whole first season just landed on Netflix.

The quick pitch

St. Denis Medical is a mockumentary workplace comedy set in a chronically underfunded hospital in Oregon. Think The Office energy transplanted into a frayed, overworked ER where the jokes live right next to the red tape. It is sharp, dry, and surprisingly warm — the kind of show that lets a character bomb a budget meeting and still pull off a gut-punch of an emotional beat five minutes later.

Why Scrubs fans should care

Scrubs (NBC-then-ABC, nine seasons, wrapped in 2010) mixed big heart with high-wire silliness and fantasy cutaways. St. Denis Medical trims the surreal stuff and leans into a more world-weary, 2020s flavor: gallows humor, admin nightmares, and the exhausting math of doing more with less. The focus also shifts a bit from doctors to the nursing staff, which gives the ensemble a different, stickier chemistry without losing that work-family vibe.

Story-wise, you will recognize the beats: tough patients, middle-management edicts that make zero sense, personal meltdowns colliding with professional crises. It is familiar in the right ways and modern where it counts. No, it is not a Scrubs revival — and that is the point. It plays like a grounded spiritual successor instead of a sequel trying to fix the past.

Where to watch (and how much there is)

Season 1 of St. Denis Medical — all 18 episodes — hit Netflix on April 1. The show is currently rolling through Season 2 on NBC, so you can catch up fast and jump right into the weekly chaos. For the scorekeepers: it is sitting at an 81% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

The setup and the tone

The series follows the overworked doctors and nurses of the underfunded St. Denis Medical Center in Oregon as they try to take care of patients without losing their sanity. The mockumentary style lets the characters vent directly to camera, which is where a lot of the best, driest laughs live. It is cynical without being mean, and when the show goes for an emotional swing, it earns it.

What else just dropped on Netflix

• American Gangster
• Kindergarten Cop
• The Mission: Impossible movies
• Smokey and the Bandit
• Season 1 of NBC sitcom Happy's Place, starring Reba McEntire

Bottom line

If you loved Scrubs for the heart and the hang but you are over the idea of reboots, St. Denis Medical is absolutely worth your time. It feels new, it feels lived-in, and it knows exactly where the laughs live in a broken hospital system.