Addison Montgomery (Kate Walsh, Grey's Anatomy) leaves behind McDreamy, McSteamy, and McSeattle to join California's Oceanside Wellness Center, a private practice that was founded by two best friends from med school. But if she's expecting a drama-free existence, she's in the wrong place. Naomi (Audra McDonald) and Sam (Taye Diggs) Bennett are the perfect couple who aren't together anymore. Pediatrician Cooper Freedman (Paul Adelstein) is a horny Peter Pan looking for love on the Internet. Violet Turner (Amy Brenneman) is a psychiatrist who can dish out the advice,... but can't get over her own breakup to a man who has clearly moved on. And then there's Pete Wilder (Tim Daly), an alternative-medicine practitioner so good-looking and charming that Addison can't stop crushing on him, even though she dismisses his brand of practice as New Age-y. Created by Grey's Anatomy's Shonda Rhimes to capitalize on Walsh's popularity, Private Practice has some screwy moments that don't fall in line with Addison's cosmopolitan character. Are we really to believe that Addison is so messed up that she really believes the elevator is talking to her? That conceit would've worked on Ally McBeal's titular heroine, but on Addison Montgomery? We don't think so. The show, which was affected by the writer's strike of 2007, lacks cohesiveness in the truncated 10 episodes on this DVD box set. But still, the series shows promise. Though some of the plot devises are melodramatic at best (Sam has to deliver the baby of a woman who had been robbing the store just moments before), viewers end up rooting for the quirky characters to get their personal lives in order. Though we're supposed to be longing for Addison and Pete to couple up, and for the Bennetts to realize that their divorce was a mistake, it's really Cooper and Violet who have all the makings to be the show's most intriguing couple. The debut season showed some interesting plot devices: two couples whose babies were mistakenly exchanged at birth; a senior citizen with unexplainable bruising on his body; and one of the female characters dealing with her own infertility issues. But the thrust of the show is how the doctors work and play together. Talking to one of her patients, Addison says, "Everyone screws up once in awhile." That can also be the motto for the Oceanside Wellness Center. --Jae-Ha Kim [show more]
Although it's not as gripping as Grey's Anatomy, Private practice works as a spin off because Grey's fans are already enamoured with the main character- Ms Addison Shepard. We already know that she has come out of a failed relationship and we cried with her when she devastatingly found out that she couldn't have children.
Therefore in LA, we are more than intrigued and quite flabbergasted when she is tempted by a local doctor of alternative medicine, despite his similar CV to her ex husband AKA Seattle Grace's very own Mr Mc Dreamy!
Private Practice itself is quite a departure from its parent show; less characters to focus on and hardly any blood and gore but somehow it's got the formula that works. Characters with humanity that we feel we know by the end of the first 45 minutes. I for one am hooked and long may the series continue!
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A spin-off of the popular medical dramedy GREY&39;S ANATOMY PRIVATE PRACTICE follows former Seattle surgeon Dr Addison Montgomery (Kate Walsh) as she relocates to Los Angeles to join the Oceanside Wellness Center a small coterie of fertility and hormone specialists
All nine episodes from the first season of the 'Grey's Anatomy' spinoff series. The series revolves around renowned surgeon, Dr. Addison Montgomery (Kate Walsh), as she leaves the Grace Hospital in Seattle and moves to California, where she joins a group of her old medical school friends at a private practice in Los Angeles. Episodes comprise: 'In Which We Meet Addison, a Nice Girl from Somewhere Else', 'In Which Sam Receives an Unexpected Visitor', 'In Which Addison Finds the Magic', 'In Which Addison Has a Very Casual Get Together', 'In Which Addison Finds a Showerhead', 'In Which Charlotte Goes Down the Rabbit Hole', 'In Which Sam Gets Taken for a Ride', 'In Which Cooper Finds a Port in His Storm' and 'In Which Dell Finds His Fight'.
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