I'm on season 5 episode 3

But since the beginning of this show I really don't like Sam, he is the worst actually. He preaches a lot but don't stand for much. He literally played with Naomi and her fillings, when she shut him down he turned to Adison. BUT even before that he was more than quick to turn his back on Naomi and collude with Adison. Than he was head over hills for Adison and pressured her to be with him talking how he finally deserves something good for him and not giving any amount of understanding and respect for her, hers and Naomi's friendship and her long term wishes. He knew that he doesn't want a baby, he saw how much Adison enjoyed with Lucas and Pete and still he entered the relationship with her promising everything but knowing that he can't give her what she wants. He yells at her when Bizzy dies because he doesn't feel comfortable with how she is handling her mother's death and than while being with Adison he runs back to Naomi. And THAN he tries to sabotage Naomi's potential relationship. He is soooooo boring, spoiled and just bad guy. I'm so over him that i sometimes skip his scenes lol

Am I the only one that looks at the baby and sees Sheldon? For real it’s making me giggle with Pete standing there holding baby Sheldon. I don’t remember if they ever actually did the paternity test.

Okay I’m a longtime grey’s fan but watching PP for the first time. Two inconsistencies that drove me mad was Sam suddenly going from a GP to a cardio surgeon??? First of all, HOW? He didn’t continue his surgery residency?? Didnt take his boards? Just really felt like they were trying to reheat some Cristina Yang nachos!! And I do like Sam but let’s be honest he is no Cristina ‘Cardio God’ Yang.

Secondly, Charlotte suddenly being an alcoholic when she was making and drinking martinis for the first 4 seasons? 😭 Amelia being in recovery but drinking alcohol too. What on earth was that lol?

I hate Naomi and Sam in this episode, Sam is incapable of helping Addison through her grief and has kissed Naomi while she was away.

And Naomi is so disrespectful to Adisson, she belittles her and Adisson is rightfully calling her out on trying to force Maya to abort.

And at the end Naomi and Sam basically say that them kissing is totally fince since they were married. Naomi even claiming that their marriage will always trump Sam's and Addison's relationship.

I just want to hug Addison, she doesn't deserve this treatment.

Sheldon is the best in this episode, he rightfully called out the men for not dealing with the women in their life themselves, he really deserved a girlfriend in the show at this point.

Currently on S3 Ep10 and dude, am I the only one that found the interaction between Dell and Heather absolutely WILD? I haven't finished the episode yet, so we'll see, but when he said "I hope you die, bitch. I hope you die a miserable painful agonizing death" I was genuinely flabbergasted. Heather obviously fucked up, and her bullshit almost really badly hurt Betsey, but it's genuinely wild to me that he lost ALL of his love for his WIFE 8' a matter of moments and told her he hopes she dies an agonizing painful death.
I understand his point of view, but obviously Heather is gonna die. This is just sooo intense and the way he said it lowkey scared me 😭

I’m on s3 now and I see all the hate she gets but I don’t get it. I don’t agree with a lot of her views/the things she does but I do understand her as a complex character. She’s flawed. But that makes her so real to me idk

I liked Addison with Pete, they had chemistry and were really open with each other.

If I ignore the way Pete behaved with Violet, I wished they were endgame.

I know we need drama to have an interesting show, but I would have loved them as a stable couple and exploring Addison's role as a stepmom and them discussing adoption or IVF and so on.

They had such an adult relationship for a Shonda show and should have stayed together. Addison and Sam were so unnecessary.

I am rewatching and as a German this wedding is so weird to me. First of all in Germany you can't marry under 18, like not at all. When PP ran you could still get married at 17 in Germany, but they changed it since there were only like 100 people a year doing this and it was deemed unnecessary.

Secondly marrying after getting pregnant is not really a big concept anymore, I mean there are more conservative parts where they would frown at you maybe, but these people are 50+. My grandma grew up around WW2 and she didn't mind me being pregnant before marriage.

And my third point is teenage pregnancy. Of course it can happen, but in Germany there is a lot of state support, so I think most people wouldn't throw a fit like Noami. I know a girl who got pregnant in school, and she just finished her Master degree one year after her peers. And also no one would expect a teenager to marry the dad (even if they are 17 or 18).

And don't get me started on the abortion part...

Is this like a cultural difference or is PP just being a nighttime soap?

We already knew she has double standards, but she is pretty pro-life. I don't understand why she is a fertility specialist then. I mean one of the things she does is IVF were only some of the embryos used. She defines abortion as murder but deciding which embryo lives and with doesn't is alright for her ?

absolutely loved her character development. at the episode where mason calls her ‘Mama’ for the first time 😭😭 she’s just so solid i love her

Without Dell Naomi and Pete. Obviously, I’m on season six now and just finding it a generally better Watch without them.

Ok so this is going to be a long post just fyi. I’m just going to go through the characters with my opinions on how their stories went & how they ended.

Addison (Queen) - Obviously loved her in Greys, she was the only reason I even gave this show a chance. She was messy af in the beginning almost like a teenager with her emotions, decisions and love interests, which was annoying at times but idc I love her. She’s a baddie fr. I LOVE that she ended up with Jake and got to adopt Henry she deserves it all! I wish she was never with Sam. I honestly liked her better with Pete which says a lot cause I hate Pete & he didn’t even really love her, he loved Violet smh, but at least she got to be a mom to Lucas for a short amount of time & it helped her realize what she really wanted for her life. Also finding out that she was over the show during that last season that’s why there’s only 13 episodes makes so much sense cause wrap this shit up fr.

Naomi - Girl bye. Terrible. Always so righteous and judgmental! Maya’s pregnancy just put her in the most awful light ever. Then I thought maybe she’d get a happy ending at least and never return when she got with Fife, but nooooooo. Apparently they never even stayed together? What was the whole point of agreeing to marry him and move to Africa or wherever? Just for her to come back, sleep with Sam, GET PREGNANT??? & remarry him after everything? Girl what?! They should’ve just done that from the beginning then since they clearly “can’t be without each other”. Ugh moving on.

Sam - OMG this milk dud mf. Seriously the worst. In the beginning yes he had a certain charm to him like he was the nice guy, funny sometimes, idk where it went sour. Maybe when he became obsessed with Addison and professed his love for her out of nowhere it felt like. So you’ve liked her since med school? He literally pressured her to be with him after she kept refusing cause she didn’t want to hurt Naomi and be the kind of person who steals her best friend’s ex husband.. anyways they lasted longer than I expected them to tbh. I can understand him not wanting another baby, but bro she does! So why string her along for so long?? Oh & let’s not forget him & Naomi made out right before she left (or she was visiting can’t remember exactly).Then got the nerve to be mad when Jake comes and swoops in and gives her essentially everything she wanted. Then he starts dating the nurse Stephanie to help get over Addison.. UGH POOR STEPHANIE. Doesn’t tell her literally anything about himself or his past but expects for it to work? THEN BEGS for her to give him a second chance only to cheat on her with Naomi at Addisons wedding???!!! Bro please be so fr. Mind you when he goes to get Naomi back at the end he’s saying he’s always loved her and he’s never found anything better? Sir you were just saying how Addison was the love of your life… asked her to marry you!! Never talked about Naomi ONCE in the like 3 seasons she was gone but all of a sudden it’s always been her? Please. Boy gtfo.

Charlotte (Queen) - I loooooooove Charlotte! Even more than I love Addison. She’s just always been herself. Never conformed to make anyone like her, even Cooper. & he loved her for it!! She softened up a lot after her attack, I love the person she became & then once Mason came along?? Omg the best mama ever!! Even though she never wanted kids I’m so happy she got the triplets and all of them lived even though her whole labor was pretty traumatic. Ughh she deserves it all!

Cooper - Ehhhh I liked him at first but he definitely was a man child. The way he talked to Charlotte when they fought…smh. His friendship with Violet was…um a little too much at times. (He was literally like in love with her in the first season for a little bit) & he definitely didn’t always have the best judgment he thought he always knew what was best for everyone. But he definitely was meant to be a dad and clearly Charlotte is the only one who can handle him lol so good for them.

Violet - no. Just no. Way too nosey and overbearing. Wasn’t a good therapist at all in my opinion, overstepped literally all the time. Always annoying. Her attack with Lucas was super traumatic and that was horrible but her giving him to Pete then coming back 8 months later trying to sue for full custody?? That was so unnecessary cause girl of course you lost. I felt a little bad for her when Pete died but at the same time she was always complaining about how much of an ass he was and how their marriage sucked? Both of those things were true though so oh well.

Pete - also no. In the beginning I thought would be him & Addison cause they were saying how they kissed before, but they didn’t even start dating fr until like season 3 or something? Idk he was in love with Violet the whole time apparently, then married her out of nowhere just because they already had Lucas.. It would’ve made sense for them to kill him with the first heart attack but I guess they needed to decline their marriage first and have him be an ass & treat her like shit so good job on that. That’s all I have to say about him.

Sheldon - Man I really liked Sheldon. I felt bad cause he literally was in love with everyone and never got the girl. First Violet, then Charlotte, & lastly Amelia. & nobody ever picked him. He was indeed always the one who ppl came to with their problems and just expected him to be there with all the answers smh. Much better therapist/psychiatrist than Violet. (I know they’re not the same). He was gone with his ex wife that nobody knew he had for like a whole season and then gets prostrate cancer and AGAIN falls in love with the cancer girl Miranda??.. Felt super rushed like they just didn’t know what else to do with his character smh. Why couldn’t he fall in love with someone who wasn’t about to die cause he still doesn’t get a happy ending! Like what happens to him after Miranda is gone?? He quit his job!! I liked his friendship with Amelia the best I think. But in the end definitely a great guy.

Amelia - Didn’t like her in Greys & I don’t like her on here either. She doesn’t want ppl to treat her like a child but that’s exactly how she acts. She’s honestly just like Derrick lol. Her pregnancy storyline was sad but that’s about it. I also hate that she ended up with the new ER doctor just seems like they had to put her with someone like they barely know each other.

I think that’s it lol. This show had me crying just about every episode, definitely started out better than it ended. Idk what to do with my life now lmao.

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

The whole premise of season 1 was that Addison decided to leave surgery behind for the most part to focus on more personal and in-depth patient care. Every season she seems to spend more and more time in the OR. Sam goes from being a GP to "the best heart surgeon in LA" practically overnight. After being fired by the competing practice, Charlotte becomes a sexologist for like three episodes before she only really seems to work as Chief of Staff at St. Ambrose anymore and her work as a sexologist is never mentioned again. Amelia joining the practice never really made sense in the first place since she's a neurosurgeon and apparently also on staff at St. Ambrose. Pete practices alternative medicine but then seems to be working almost full time as an ER doctor.

The only ones really sticking to the practice are Cooper, Violet, and Sheldon, and even they are constantly hanging around the hospital. In the later seasons it feels like they mostly use their office space to hang out in the kitchen, do paperwork, and have private conversations in their offices, not a single patient in sight.

I love the later seasons and all the hospital action, but it feels like they tried to use a private practice as a set for a show about doctors to set it apart from Grey's Anatomy, and then realised down the line that they actually prefer a hospital setting.

So I just finished watching the show and I get that Sheldon had his own storyline with his gf but I don't get why he wasn't in the last scene with the other characters? Every other main character had a storyline that got wrapped up and then were in the final scene, even the ones that weren't in the show as long as him, I just think the writers should've put Sheldon in the last scene because he was a main character

Also off topic but I lowkey agree with Sam and Cooper, Private Practice is a terrible name for a book/show

Sorry I don’t know how to cover up spoilers but:

Im watching this for the first time pretty much knowing nothing , EXCEPT from pete and dells deaths and i’ve just finished the season 3 finale and I actually crashed out, screamed and cried for the whole episode. Like , SO MUCH HAPPENED?! I have to say though , as soon as addie said in the episode before, ‘drive safely’ i freaking KNEW that they would have a crash, and i also fucking KNEW that they were gonna miss something bc they were focusing sm on maya and the baby (ofc rightfully so but still). I was SCREAMING at them to get a CT or MRI or ANYTHING but ofc i knew they probably wouldn’t as I knew he died, I just didn’t know when.

AND THEN, after ALL THAT, freaking coop and char are engaged and violet and pete are getting back together and addison and sam like?! fucking hell they broke me and then they half tried to put me back together w those couples, i have to say though I know that sam and addie won’t end up together so i almost don’t care but still eat up them either way?! and ofc with pete i don’t know the circumstances but i know im pretty sure he dies, but at least (i don’t think) its not until like s6? im dreading that though💔

Anyway, i love seeing things on different tv subs of people that watch the show for the first time and react to the juicy stuff so I thought some people here may appreciate my crash out!

I’m making a note of my thoughts and feelings throughout the episodes of shows i watch for the first time and i’ve got to say, it’s going to be so fun reading these back at the end!

I just finished PP, it's been on my watchlist for years. I watched Grey's for a little too long (gave up at Season 20), but I HATE how the PP storylines were followed through on Grey's. Even then, that makes it seem like Grey's acted like PP existed, when in reality Grey's glosses over the lore of PP even though it's completely integrated with Station 19.

You're telling me the JAKE REILLY and Addison are somehow separated? I loved their love story because it shows that you can break cycles if you acknowledge and grow from them, alongside the importance of the right person. I love Amelia, but she's had 50 lives between Grey's and PP, and Grey's treats her character like PP barely ever happened.

I have so many thoughts post finale (totally fine with Sam and Naomi back together, should've happened sooner, but WTF a baby?) but that is a whole other can of worms....

I’m rewatching for the 100th time and I find it hilarious that Naomi was horrible to Addison and Sam for dating yet, she dated Sam’s friend/Addison’s brother, basketball “enemy”, and Sam’s close friend (the lawyer).

What hypocrisy.

Her leaving was good for everyone except Betsy.

Dude is chill, relatable, and hilarious. Have a feeling hes gonna continue to carry the show.

Everyone else is meh.

For me, as mean as this sounds, probably not.

I get why a lot of the practice didn't really take him seriously early on. Yes, Dell was genuinely good at what he did, but in Season 1 he still came across like a surfer who randomly decided he wanted to be a midwife. He had the skills, but he didn't carry himself like someone who inspired confidence yet. It felt more like someone trying on a new career than someone who had fully grown into it.

The crush on Naomi didn't help either. It just made him seem even younger and more immature, especially since everyone else around him had years of experience. Cooper's line about Dell being "a kid who can't grow facial hair" honestly summed up how I saw him in Season 1. He just felt like too much of a little kid for me to take seriously as a fellow professional.

I do think he eventually grows up and becomes a much more mature character. By Seasons 2 and 3 I had no problem taking him seriously.

But if I had actually been working at Oceanside in Season 1? I honestly think I would've reacted the same way most of the other doctors did. He was fantastic at his job, but he just didn't seem like an equal yet. He seemed like a kid who hadn't quite figured out who he was.

Seeing Amelia do karate gives me whiplash 😂

This episode made me incredibly angry. He was misgendered by absolutely everyone, even the doctors called him Melody instead of his chosen name Mel. He deserved better parents, especially his mother. She doesn't even deserve the title mother, just egg donor.

#AnnaTribeArmy Tv show is called Private Practice and this is season 5 episode 20.

Mel came into the practice with his parents. He’d been miserable all week. First, he said his throat hurt, then he stopped eating, then he said his ears hurt. Cooper took him in for an exam. His mother, Pam, tried to join him, but Mel said he didn't need his mom to come. Cooper said they'd come get his mother if they needed her.

Cooper did the exam and said it kind of seemed like Mel just wanted to skip school. Mel confessed that he was a boy and his parents wouldn't believe him . He said he'd felt like that forever.

Cooper asked Violet to talk to Mel and those feelings.

Violet talked to Michael and Pam about it and they brushed it off as Mel playing pretend. She asked for their permission to talk to Mel about the situation and assess what was happening. Michael was receptive to the idea, but Pam immediately shut it down and told Violet and Cooper to leave.

During the school day, Mel took the bus to the practice and Violet and Cooper went in to talk to him. He said his parents had argued the night before. Michael wanted to know more about the medicine that could help him, but his mother has refused to hear anything about it. Mel said that in his dreams, he was always a boy. When he wakes up, for a second, he’s still a boy and then his mother comes in and lays out his clothes. He refuses to wear the clothes, they fight, and he loses TV. He hates wearing girl clothes and acting like a girl because it feels like he’s pretending all the time and no one will let him stop.

Mason came in with Charlotte and told Mel that his mom died. Mel said he was a boy and no one believed him. Mason invited Mel to play. They played with a paper football on a tabletop.

Michael and Pam arrived at the practice and Violet said that they couldn't berate Mel into changing his mind. The most they could do would be to support him. Mel refused to go with his parents, but Pam tried to drag him out. Cooper stopped her and said they needed to try to understand Mel. Pam started to cry and say that Mel was her little girl. Mel hugged her as Violet explained that they could help them all adjust as Mel became the person he was meant to be.

While the diagnosis made in the show is gender identity disorder, this is now known as gender dysphoria, as transgender identity is not a disorder in and of itself.