Seven years ago today, I sat a bored, lonely, and awkward teenager at a computer, trying to figure out what to do with myself for the long summer ahead. I wasn’t into sports and I wasn’t into the outdoors, especially not with killer allergies like I have. I was too young to have a job [...]
I’m a gladiator in a suit. Because that’s what you are when you work for Olivia. You’re a gladiator in a suit. You want to be a gladiator in a suit. You gotta say it. Something remarkable happened one year ago today, when ABC finally unleashed Scandal onto audiences after a painfully long wait for [...]
We’re barreling very quickly towards the end of Grey’s Anatomy‘s ninth season. That’s going to be 196 episodes. One. Hundred. Ninety. Six. Episodes. And then we’re heading into tenth season territory. Tenth season. Shows don’t make it this long, not normally. And it’s going to look weird, talking about episodes with numbers like “1001″ and [...]
Two years ago, everything changed. Two years ago, a governor ran for President, fell in love with a woman who wasn’t his wife, and history was irreparably changed. Forever. This week, Scandal‘s second season reaches its thirteenth episode – the original second season finale before ABC ordered an additional nine episodes for the end of the season after [...]
Best: Season 4, Episode 7 – “Did You Hear What Happened to Charlotte King?” This remains my favorite episode of Private Practice ever, in close contention with “Who We Are,” which made it to the runner-up #2 spot. This was the first episode to really break the mold and took us to a place we’d [...]
Best: Season 5, Episode 8 – “Who We Are” Amelia’s addiction to Oxycontin leads to her falling off the map for long enough for the doctors to think she’s died. When she suddenly reappears at the practice, they hold an intervention to try to convince her to go to rehab in this completely harrowing episode [...]
Best: Season 6, Episode 2 – “Mourning Sickness” Private Practice celebrated its 100th episode somberly, in the wake of Pete’s death in the season premiere the week before. But amidst all of the sadness and sobriety, there were moments aplenty of humor and intoxication, as one of my favorite moments ever took place in this [...]
Best: Season 3, Episode 10 – “Blowups” This was a game-changer of an episode, as we finally got to meet Addison’s mother, Bizzy, after the introduction of her father a few episodes earlier. We learned more about Addison and her family than we ever had in the years we had known the character and figured [...]
Best: Season 2, Episode 1 – “A Family Thing” When Private Practice returned for its second season, things were dramatically different for the series as ABC and series creator Shonda Rhimes spent the writer’s strike-induced long hiatus between seasons to reinvent the series, and what they did worked. And it worked really, really well. The [...]
Best: Season 6, Episode 8 – “Life Support” The writers decided to take chances in the final season of the series by playing with different formats for each episode and choosing to focus on different characters, and the Cooper-centric episode really stood out as Cooper spent the majority of the episode breaking the fourth wall [...]