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Boston Globe
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
In the era of reboots, what does a great series finale mean?
But what it also excelled at was its bittersweet tone. Sometimes, in medicine and in his personal life, things didn't work out the way J.D. wanted. Sometimes, in fact, they worked out tragically, or even just disappointingly. It was an emotional balance that Lawrence would continue honing on shows including ' That tone was particularly evident in the original finale of 'Scrubs,' (original, yes, because the show backtracked and came back with a new set of young doctors for a couple of extra seasons) which saw J.D. leave Sacred Heart, the hospital where he worked, for a new job. Advertisement What set that sort-of-finale apart from other series finales was what happened as he exited the hospital. True to J.D. and his active fantasy life, he imagined what his future might be — he saw himself marrying Elliot and having a baby with her, he celebrated Christmas with Turk and Dr. Cox, he finally got a big hug from Dr. Cox, his kid married Turk's kid. It was all very cheesy, but knowingly so. It was the type of wish fulfillment that TV shows often seem to feel obligated to close with (ahem, 'Friends'), but in perfect 'Scrubs' fashion, its final scene doesn't say any of this will actually happen. As a Peter Gabriel cover of the classic Magnetic Fields song 'The Book of Love' plays (a Lawrence show always has excellent music thanks to his wife and frequent star, Christa Miller), J.D. thinks about how nice it would be if it did. Wouldn't it be wonderful if marriages always lasted lifetimes, and we always stayed central to the lives of all the people we love? With a reboot set to happen, we'll find out whether any of J.D.'s dreams came true. The potentials will become facts, one way or another. As show after show gets rebooted, it's a little sad to see all of those endings undone. Sure, it can be fun and comforting to revisit these worlds. But as 'Scrubs' so often pointed out, sometimes the real joy was in leaving room for uncertainty. Lisa Weidenfeld can be reached at
New York Times
07-02-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Falling for ‘the Same Kind of Weird'
Jessica Rose Papilla's older sister, Noelle Papilla, thought her Starbucks co-worker, Michael Leopold Burnett, might be the perfect match for her sister. Mr. Burnett began working at the coffee shop in Milwaukee, where Ms. Papilla's sister was his shift supervisor and trainer, in May 2009. By that summer, she started thinking he and her sister were 'the same kind of weird,' as she put it. She began telling each about the other. Three months later, Ms. Papilla started working at the same Starbucks. But she was a closer and Mr. Burnett was an opener. The two never crossed paths. 'We exchanged notes — first about the goings on of the store and eventually little hellos and doodles,' Ms. Papilla said. But one day in February 2010, 'I was closing, Michael came in, and that was it,' Ms. Papilla said. 'Love at first sight.' The next month, the two saw the band the Magnetic Fields at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee. 'At some point, Michael fell asleep,' Ms. Papilla said of their first time hanging out. 'I studied through the opener. It was like we were so comfortable; we didn't have to pretend.' They continued to exchange notes and to have 'hangouts here and there,' said Ms. Papilla, who was busy as an undergraduate at Marquette University in Milwaukee. It wasn't until May 2011 that the two spent time together more regularly. 'It was a slow burn,' Mr. Burnett said. [Click here to binge read this week's featured couples.] They consider their first official date to be July 3, 2011, when they went to a parking structure on the Marquette campus to watch Fourth of July fireworks. Unfortunately, the buildings downtown blocked their view. So Mr. Burnett drove them to a nearby suburb. 'We caught the tail end of the community fireworks show and spent the rest of the evening sitting along the creek talking, laughing and falling in love,' Ms. Papilla said. That night, the two decided they were official. In September, Ms. Papilla moved to Washington for a four-month semester at Marquette's Les Aspin Center for Government, through which she had an internship with Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois. They talked on the phone and wrote letters. When her internship ended, the two moved into a tiny studio apartment on the Marquette campus. After graduating with her master's degree, Ms. Papilla landed a job in Nashville. They lived there from July 2014 to September 2015, when they moved into Mr. Burnett's childhood home in Colgate, Wis. In June 2016, they moved again to Syracuse, N.Y., where Ms. Papilla had been accepted into the Ph.D. program for economics at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. However, in June 2017, she left the program after being recruited for a job as a data analyst in Chicago. The couple moved to Chicago and rented an apartment in Logan Square, where they continue to live. One of the couple's favorite activities while Ms. Papilla was still an undergrad in college was to go to Quimby's Bookstore in Chicago, which 'had an analog, dip-and-dunk photo booth,' Ms. Papilla said. 'We always made sure we had cash on hand to take a photo strip together.' The booth was later relocated to Cole's Bar in Logan Square, where Mr. Burnett was a regular. The couple said they have more than 300 photo strips from that booth. On Dec. 11, 2023, they went to see musician Andrew Bird's Gezelligheid concert at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago, as they do every year. [Click here to binge read this week's featured couples.] Afterward, they went to Cole's and into the photo booth, where Mr. Burnett proposed. Ms. Papilla, 33, grew up in Sacramento and works remotely as a client success lead at the San Francisco-based fintech company Affirm. She also performs burlesque under the stage name Siomai Moore and is a lipstick kiss print reader. She holds a bachelor's degree in political science and economics and a master's degree in applied economics, both from Marquette. Mr. Burnett, 34, is a self-employed artistic blacksmith and a Fire Arts Center of Chicago board member. He studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art and Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. The couple were married on Jan. 26 by World Famous *BOB*, a 'draglesque star' who was ordained through Universal Life Church and who Ms. Papilla considers a 'burlesque fairy drag mother.' Fifty-three guests attended the ceremony, which Ms. Papilla described as 'silly and fun.' The ceremony and cocktail hour were held at Cole's, where the couple required every guest to get in the photo booth. 'Before we exited Cole's Bar and headed over to Boonie's Filipino Restaurant for dinner. We conducted a 'strip search,'' Ms. Papilla said. 'That is, we had all guests hand over their photo strips so that we could make copies.'
