Private Practice: The Complete First Season

this is not as dramatic or polished as the show it spun-off from, grey's anatomy, but its still a nice dramedy with some fine acting from Kate Walsh. Fun and sunny, its worth your time if you love the character of Dr. Addison Montgomery.

Shonda Rimes, famous for the groundbreaking and all around excellent medical soap opera "Grey's Anatomy" has made a big mistake. That mistake, deciding to produce and create the super dud "Private Practice." While the idea for the show was fresh and witty, it came out terribly. First of all, the show has none of the soap opera goodness, it is a boring and unbelievable episodic dramedy. The characters are all wrong. KaDee Strickland's role as the painfully annoying Charlotte King is in no way amusing. Also, Audra McDonald truly can not act, and Taye Diggs character was not adapted enough. He was more of a secondary character. It is especially painful to watch because the show could have been good. I just hope Shonda Rimes will make a few changes before season two airs. If the show were more soap operatic with recurring plots and had better writers and actors it might be something.

Private Practice was a sleeper when it came out, meaning, it came out of no where and with each episode it got better and better. I don't think anyone expected it to do well, I still think a lot of people haven't given it a chance. DO. It will be worth it.

The format for this show is the same as Grey's, a mix of medical drama and character drama/storylines. Both are entertaining, fun and intelligent. I am so pleased with this season of PP. I was worried it might bomb, but every week the show got better & better in my opinion. In part, it always takes a while for the characters to sort of grow on me. More and more I found myself anticipating the next show and enthralled at the character developments.

If you missed the first season of PP, get it on DVD. Don't miss the second season, I have a feeling it's only going to get bigger & better!

I absolutely love this show (I saw almost all of it when I was in America and thankful for that because Australia is last again). It's fantastic and addictive and funny and so enjoyable. If I'm going to be completely honest, the main reasons I began watching this is because of Tim Daley and Taye Diggs. Especially Tim - he's so cute. But I found myself getting really involved with the story lines and the characters and now have a new favourite show.
After the initial episode of seeing the crossover from Greys to Private, we see the first episode called In Which We Meet Addison, a Nice Girl From Somewhere Else (all the episodes are called In Which ...) where she joins the Oceanside Wellness Group where she was offered a job. The clinic is mostly owned by one of her best friends in college. One of the other workers there is Dr Pete Wilder (Tim Daley) who throughout the season, she has a strong strong chemistry with. It makes for very interesting situations. Some of the episodes are written by Shondra Rhimes so they still have a Greys feel to them.
I have to say that I really like this more than Greys. The characters are all fantastic and complex and that helps make this show great. I'm so lucky that I got to see a lot of this when I was in America last year because as usual, Australia is behind the rest of the world with most things and I have no clue when we are getting this. I just hope my copy of this dvd comes before we get to FINALLY see it over here. I love this program and can't wait to own the dvd. I highly recommend it.

This show just got better and better with each episode. It came into its own, finding a great balance between comedy and drama. The acting is wonderful, Kate Walsh is SPECTACULAR, she just keeps adding more and more layers to the character we have all come to love as the beautifully complicated Dr. Addison Montgomery. Amy Brenamann is wonderful as the talented and flawed Violet. Tim Daly is great as the sexy complex quack Pete. Taye Diggs is deliciously HOT, funny, somewhat dorky, but still manly Sam, Audra McDonald is great as the ex-wife who is trying to keep it all together but you can see that she is on the brink of breaking down completely, and Paul Adelstein is a maverick of talent. LOVE this show I definitely see nominations for the show and the actors in the near future especially for our AMAZINGLY talented leading lady Kate Walsh.


I am so excited for this series to come out. I miss this AMAZING show. I can't wait till it comes back this fall.