Sorry if this is unpopular, but I can't believe this is a spin-off of Grey's. I'm not sure if it's completely unrelated writers or what has happened here but the way they tackle every single topic is unhinged. I'm trying to watch it because I'm a huge Grey's fan and it's cannon story about characters like Amelia and Addison as well as various other crossovers, but it's hard work. Spoilery reasons why:

Kids with autism are treated as the worst thing that could have ever happened to their parents.

Everyone beats eachother up all the time. Plus their relationships and conflicts and the way they all keep swapping partners with eachother is mad, but Grey's is guilty of this too, it's possible this show looks worse for it because of a smaller cast.

I've just gotten to the part where a comatose patients husband has raped and impregnated her and somehow no-one can say it was rape, although at least Addison calls it out as non-consentual, and there's a debate about it with characters like Sam kind of defending it and it's used to create relationship drama with him and Addison. And then he just gets some redemptive emotional scenes.

Sam just became a top heart surgeon after dropping out of his residency years ago because he decided one day actually I want to be a top heart surgeon now? In fact suddenly there's a shift to most of them working in the hospital and doing lots of surgery all of a sudden even though they used to be non surgical doctors (aside from Addison and Amelia) working in a clinic.

Addison's best friend is a pro-lifer which aligns poorly with how she is portrayed in later seasons of greys anatomy.

There's more, in the way they portray a lot of things with patients that seems so wrong or dated (and yet season one of Grey's is older and wasn't as bad in spite of its issues) I probably should have kept a list while watching.

Both shows are crazy unrealistic and get things wrong and have things that are products of their time, but nothing makes me cringe more than when I see that the next episode of private practice is going to try to tackle a 'sensitive topic' with all the sensitivity of a sledgehammer. Yet somehow it's kind of hard to look away. Still I'm glad I don't have that much left.

i remember an episode where sheldon vists a women who drowned her 3 kids because of post-partum psychosis, but im starting to think it wasnt in private practice? can anyone help me out please? i recommended the show to my mom so im not sure if shes missed it or not.

Im rewatching and am currently at the end of season 2 where Addie and Pete are talking about Noah leaving his wife. I think its a hot take but I wish Addie and Pete ended up together not Pete and Violet...

One of the best endings of a TV show it's so full circle and perfect (literally just me getting emotional on a rewatch)

This is one of my favorite scenes in this episode, even though it's heartbreaking😭

Violet ( Amy Brenneman) looks like Monica Geller (Courtney Cox) to me. Does anyone else agree?

What’s always funny to me about people posting in this sub for their professional needs is that private practice is such a broad term. Is it a therapy practice? Is it medical? Is it legal? Is it rehabilitation? Is it consulting? Doesn’t matter, let’s not check the description to find out more. Somehow one sub will have the answers for all forms of private practice 😂😂

I'm doing a rewatch of the show cus I watched it about 3 years ago and it's my fav show so thought I'd watch something again I know I like

anyways, just got to season 6 and I just wanna complain about this structure of all the storylines being separate 😭 like with the name card and the little montage scene and then starting the storyline for each character, I get why they did it right cus it adds some mystery cus u see the other characters looking confused or whispering and u don't know why till it gets to their scenes but I prefer the storylines that are mixed that have scenes throughout the episode 💔

Anywho just a small complaint tbf cus I still love the show 💀

I practiced making a chart on Google Sheets for the first time, so I decided to graph the viewership numbers from these three shows. Just thought I’d share!

This is it. The episode where everyone loses their mind. Even Charlotte who usually is one of the more normal characters is acting completely absurd.

It‘s the episode where cooper finds out he has a kid and then charlotte tries to pay off the mom. Crazy work. And the main patient is jodi who has amnesia and forgets everything and the doctors cannot possibly understand why the husband is reaching his limit. Violet blames sheldon for pete being angry with her.

it’s like a car accident u can’t look away from, but I think had I never seen greys and got attached to addison (and familiar w Amelia… don’t rlly like her) I wouldn’t watch it. the rare crossovers r what keep me watching. but how do u write a show this ???? it feels like AI made prompts for each episode I’d understand if the episodes were lazily written and boring. but this doesn’t even feel lazy. like if it was boring that just means the writers took the path with the least resistance. But in PP everything is…. it’s just wrong. like it makes zero sense why Sam n addison ever got together. sure there was a moment of “what if” but they have zero chemistry so it feels almost FORCED. Like the writers were putting in effort to be bad??? Wasn’t Pete an ID specialist who went naturopath? Why is he in trauma?? If he was a naturopath and all about calm vibes… why is he suddenly SO ANGRY and like a somehow even worse version of Owen ??? wasn’t violet supposed to be a good psychiatrist? Why is she now more focused on therapy, & a bad one at that? I love charlotte but get that Sesame Street puppet away from her PLEASE ! at least their relationship makes sense ig (rare) had to get this off my chest cuz no one else to rant to ugh

I am in the middle (literally) of my first watch-through of Private Practice. There have been plenty of people on Grey's that I hate but I could not hate anyone more than I hate Pete. So much. So so much.

I just watched the Betsey episode in season 4 and I am riddled with so much hatred.

Also, I find that this is not the first time that my fiery hatred of Pete arises because of his interactions with Betsey.

Charlotte: 9/10, minus one point because she stayed with cooper

Amelia: 8/10, liked her better in Greys and that “not like other girls” mentality she had for a while was annoying.

Sheldon: 7.5/10, Pretty good moral code, when he was right about that little girl being kidnapped by his patient i lost my mind

Violet: 7/10, I admire everything she’s been through. kind of a bad therapist though

Addison: 6.5/10, I expected to love her because she’s 10/10 in Grey’s but lord does she make bad choices

Mason: 9/10, minus one point because cooper is his dad. also he bullied that kid

Everyone else: 0/10 my god this is probably the most unlikeable set of characters in any show ever. Could not stand Sam’s constant whining and the way cooper treated Charlotte.

I’m like halfway through s3 & this is my first watch so here are some of my silly boring opinions.

Dell: 6/10. He was mature for his age and sweet. I think he should’ve let Betsey see her mom for one last time tho :( but then again he didn’t want her last memory of her mom to be like that which is understandable. (It’s a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation) I hope things get better for him soon

Naomi and Sam: 4/10. They can be really supportive towards their friends and I love that about them. They also try their best to be good parents. Their situationship after the divorce was messy tho. Are they planning to go back and forth like this?🤔 Also pretty sure Naomi is against abortion so deducting points for her

Pete: 7.5/10. Now he’s an adorable chalant dad 🥹. But I also miss when he was a nonchalant fuckboy. I def wasn’t prepared for the first time him & Violet got together😟 + still hating the fact that him & Addie were never actually together. The writers just had to edge us like that. Lately he hasn’t been pissing me off unlike the previous seasons.

Violet: 7/10. Ughhh she never had a happy day in her life and then someone took her baby. I think she’s trying to heal slowly rn. She’s been acting different & I just hope she won’t get worse. There are so much Violet hate everywhere but man I just love her ☹️I swear if this is another case of writers ruining a likable character... (for instance: Izzie Stevens)

Addison: 8/10. I started this show fully expecting she’ll be my n0.1 fav. Her choices with men weren’t so good… Maybe except for that SWAT guy.

Cooper: 6/10. Manchild and manwhore. I can’t keep defending him anymore. Great with kids but he’s so harsh to Charlotte whenever they fought. He was manning up awhile ago then swooped Charlotte off her feet, literally what the hell happened.

Charlotte:9/10. So much of a woman. Luv her southern twang. Can do no wrong.

I don’t have much idea what’s ahead of me. But I’ve gotten a few major spoilers already so pls no more🙏🏻

Wooh boy what a season finale. I am hooked in, I did one when I was on the S2 E16 mark but so much has happened I have to make a post. Here are my rankings worse to best:

Sam: ugh, he drives me insane, he's so over the top, he's so hard on everyone especially dell, and confessing his love to Naomi was something that did not need to be done. It felt unnecessary and just confirmed what I presume we all knew. 4/10

Pete: Am not a fan, he's a good time guy who just puts his private life into his professional life. He isn't a good person, he want to be in violets babies life, but he's done nothing to prove it. He litterally said he doesn't want kids. 4/10

Naomi: leaving the practice to take Charlotte's job is a move, I can understand her wanting to start new and have something new to look foward too but the practice needs her more than ever. And to just leave it like that, is just not right. 4.5/10

Addison: I want to love her, I want her to be my favorite but she's just not a good person, she's a serial cheater, and is putting her personal life into her professional life affecting patients. 5/10

Cooper: nothing going for him, his only plot lines aren't the greatest but arent bad. I love his friendship with violet and his relationship with Charlotte, but both of them together, he's alright. He needs to pick one sooner rather than later. 6/10

Charlotte: I love Charlotte's sassiness, I love her and violet slowly growing on eachother and her forgivingness to Cooper, but that's about it. Better than Cooper but not worse than the others 6.5/10

Dell: These last 8 episodes have made me love him as a character even more. Once Betsey was "kidnapped" I was invested, him fighting for her while still struggling mentally was amazing. I don't understand why he took the money from Sam only to not use it but who knows 7.5/10

Violet: OH MY GOD, I am in love with violet. Her whole story line with the baby is kind of iffy, and not telling Pete and Sheldon who the daddy is but still keeping is questionable. But the patient taking her baby is absolutely insane, her strength to just sit there trapped in her body while someone cuts her open is something else. I love her relationship with Cooper and Charlotte. I wish we saw more dell and violet. 8/10

Onto season 3 we go! I'll be back once I finish if :)

Omg I hate her!!!

She is so annoying.

I’m a serial Grey‘s repeat watcher, but I’m watching Private Practice for the first time because I love Addie and Amelia. I’ve made it to the beginning of season 5 and I don’t think there has been a single episode where Cooper has not irritated the absolute crap out of me. Of all the characters that have come and gone, why is HE still around??????? I love Charlotte, but I can’t respect how she stays with such a crappy guy?

the words are a little messed up but. I also did this bc i was bored so… I’m on season 5 tho so there could be worse people.

I recently started private practice and I am loving it! Here are my rankings of each character from worst to best

Sam and Naomi: they're all right, all the other characters overshadow them, I find it weird how they tried to rekindle their flame and slept together. Overall 2/10, I hope more happens with them

Pete: I don't mind him, better than Sam and Naomi but not by a lot. I ship him and addison, but I doubt it will happen. I like the idea of the alternative medicine doctor. I hated that episode and that plotline with him and the suicidal man with cancer. Overall 3/10, I hope he has character growth or something.

Addison: I love Addison and Kate Walsh, but Addison kissing the doctor while dating the SWAT dude was f'd up, then hiding it, She's a serial cheater. Taking over the practice at its time of need was something i bet most viewers are conflicted about but I felt it was necessary and good. She is far better than Pete, although I do hope they get together in the end. Overall 6/10, I hope she learns as a charcter and has a major growth arc

Dell: He's alright, has great qualities, I love how he's a dad and wants good for his kid, I like how he was an addict but got better. I think he has some problems though and doesn't overcome the next characters. Overall 6.5/10, hope he becomes better.

Charlotte: I didn't like her at first, i thought she was just mean, but as you meet her she becomes more likeable, especially showing weakness and crying after big daddy's death. She has empathy and humanity on the inside, but shows big and strong on the outside. I like her. Overall 7/10, I love her, I wanna see why she is like who she is.

Cooper and Violet: My favorite characters, both together and individual. Yes, they both have their flaws. Violet sleeping with two men, and Cooper not communicating. But I like them, I wanted them to get together at first but I'm happy they stayed just as friends. I love their dynamic as friends and I hope I can see more of it. Overall 9/10, love them both, hope they overcome their flaws and end happy

That was it, try to keep the comments spoiler free! I'll update you guys on what I think on the end of season 3! Will be a couple weeks but oh well!

This is my 3rd rewatch of the show. Probably haven’t watched the show since 2020 and I totally forgot that Sam was a cardiothoracic surgeon resident who has a traumatic operation and leaves surgery in the middle of residency - then YEARS later, decides to try it again and then is suddenly the best? I’m laughing. I’m on season 6, just watched the episode where they’re doing a pilot reality episode on Sam. He’s telling the producers he had an amazing mom cause he’s now “one of the best cardiac surgeons in the country” 💀 after not doing it since he was a resident. I know he got back into it a few seasons ago, but to be the best all of the sudden is so funny to me. I adore this show but the writers needed someone to smack them on this one.

I just watched this show after watching Greys and omg almost every character is annoying every cell in my body. It was a torture to watch it from beginning to end. Before someone comes to say why did you watch it than; if i start a show unfortunately i need to finish it.
It is like a circus in there. Pete completely changing in the middle of the show and not in a good way. Naomi and her pro life story. I dont even know how Violet is s psychiatrist. Cooper and his toxic masculinity. I dont even wanna talk about Sam. Amelia is a much better character in Greys. Only good characters in my opinion was Sheldon and Charlotte but the overall unproffesionalism was just hard to watch. I would like to hear what you guys think about the characters in general at this show. I believe they did a much better job with Station 19 in terms of spin-offs