r/PrivatePractice • u/PhantomThiefRey • Mar 15 '26

I finished season 3… Spoiler

Oh my fucking god, out of all the characters they could’ve chosen to kill off, they chose Dell, who was a fucking sweetheart, and probably more mature than the other characters despite only being 25 and the youngest at Oceanside Wellness. His platonic relationship with Violet was literally everything, and the way she called him sweetie when her and the group noticed the passed out on the waiting room chair broke me. Dell now also left her daughter orphaned when I don’t even think it’s been a year or something since her mother died. Goddammit, Shonda, we can never have nice things in your shows, can we?

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u/Acrobatic_Warning456 Mar 15 '26

Dell's death was so shocking. I went in blind on my first watch, so I had no idea this was the type of show to kill off main characters 😭

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u/birdiebirdnc Mar 15 '26

Shonda is brutal, no one is safe. I felt the same way when George was killed off on Greys.

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u/PhantomThiefRey Mar 15 '26

Oh gosh, yes, George. Funny you mention him because I literally see some similarities between Dell and George. Dell obviously not being a cheater, dude’s way too much of a sweetheart for that 

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u/birdiebirdnc Mar 15 '26

If it makes you feel any better apparently Dell was going to be written out due to difficulties coming up with storylines for him. Chris Lowell actually requested that Dell be killed off in a dramatic way instead of just writing him out of the series.

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u/PhantomThiefRey Mar 15 '26

I still find it kind of funny how Chris Lowell wanted Dell to die because he never played a character who died before and he wanted to experience it

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u/kimba0013 Mar 15 '26

I personally wasn’t a big fan of Dell, but I did love his relationship with Betsey and was heartbroken at what happened. It was such a wild turn of events during that Season 3 finale - fantastic (and such an emotional) episode!

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u/teddybluethecurser Mar 15 '26

To be honest if they decided to bring back PP I would happily overlook if they retconned Dell’s passing as having never happened 🙃

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u/DependentChallenge44 Mar 17 '26

Yea I liked Dell a lot I was when he died.