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The Time Has Come: Goodbye, Private Practice

sitting here trying to decide where to begin. How do you begin at the end of something? Private Practice ended forever with this episode. There is no more. Addison Montgomery won’t be on any of our screens week to week anymore, after eight straight years of watching her across two different television programs. The doctors [...]

Best & Worst of Private Practice: The #1 Slot

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 & Worst of Private Practice: The #2 Slot

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 & Worst of Private Practice: The #3 Slot

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 & Worst of Private Practice: The #4 Slot

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 & Worst of Private Practice: The #5 Slot

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 [...]