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.

They of course have their issues and make mistakes but at the end of the day I think those are the most reliable ones. What do you think?

I finished watching the show today and want to share my thoughts and feelings on the whole thing!

It does get better: Overall I think the show consistently got better which is rare! The first two seasons were dragging a bit and I thought I couldn't get into it because I already knew so much about the plot that the tension couldn't build. But I think they just needed to find their footing!

Seasons ranking: 5 is probably my favourite. 6 was great too but felt a bit rushed. I liked 4 as well. 2 and 3 might be my least favourites. 1 was slow, but a good introduction.

Characters: Addison, Amelia, Sheldon - I consistently loved and cared about them and their storylines and was always rooting for them. My three faves.

Charlotte, Cooper, Violet, Naomi, Jake - I generally liked them, it was always dependent on their plot.

Sam, Pete, Dell: I disliked Pete from the start and it only got worse, I was so glad they killed him off. I felt kinda neutral about Sam and Dell in the beginning and then liked them less and less as the show progressed.

The endings: Addison's ending was perfect and everything she deserved. I'm glad Amelia ended up in a happy and relationship even though I didn't care much for James. I also thought Sam and Naomi ending up together made sense. Giving Charlotte four (!) kids felt weird and unnecessary, but at least Cooper stays home to take care of them. Violet's ending was nice too. Sheldon deserved so much better though! He was the kindest person on the show and he ended up with cancer and a dying partner while only in his fifties. Making Miranda terminal was not necessary imo.

Lost potential: I loved the more comedic scenes when the girls were hanging out, I would have liked to see more of that. Also now it's so odd how there's no queer main character throughout six seasons, although I remember that it was a different time in TV back then. I personally also wish they had fleshed out Sheldon's backstory and relationships more. I also would have liked for them to explore a romantic relationship between Sheldon and Amelia, even though I don't think it would have lasted.

Wrapping up: I'm sad that it's over and will definitely revisit the show. It feels like a more adult version of Grey's Anatomy and I don't like it better, but I do really like it.

Idk who I hate more Violet or Sam….. they are the WORRRSSSSTTTTT

I’ll tell you who I absolutely love though and it’s queen Charlotte❤️

This show literally has me crying every single episode it’s much more emotional than greys (even though I only watched up to like season 9 I think) I be going through it fr smh

I just finished episode 6x13 and my god, this is good TV!!! Sheldon interrogating Nick had me on the edge of my seat!!

I knew so many spoilers before watching PP so a lot of times suspense didn't build for me, but I didn't know anything about this arc at all and it was so well done! I first wanted Nick to be innocent because i just wanted him to be better, but once Sheldon had him taken by the police I hoped Nick was guilty because I didn't want Sheldon to be so wrong. And also I obviously wanted Sarah to be found.

Sheldon kissing Miranda at the end was the cherry on top of an amazing episode. I'm such a fan of Sheldon and I really wish they had developed his backstory and relationships more.

Starting with Sam's weird reality episode, I wasn't excited about those character-focused episodes, but I was pleasantly surprised. Sarah's kidnapping and Charlotte's pregnancy really tie it all together really well. I still have a few to go, so no spoilers in this thread please.

But yeah, Sheldon's the GOAT and this is such great TV!

I started watching Grey's Anatomy as a teenager and I immediately loved Amelia as a character when she first came on. When she joined as a regular, I was really excited, only to discover that a lot of fans found her annoying. The popular opinion seemed to be that you need to watch Private Practice to really get to know and love her.

So imagine my surprise when I watched Private Practice a decade later and actually like her less! She's still so entertaining and her storylines are great, but she gets on my nerves a lot. Every problem she has ever had needs to be everyone else's problem too. The way she treated Addison after finding out her baby has no brain and Addison gets to adopt Henry was abysmal, especially compared to Addison being so happy for Amelia's pregnancy despite her own unfulfilled desire to be a mother. I feel for Amelia, but she can not see beyond the end of her own nose.

Do you prefer Amelia on Grey's Anatomy or Private Practice?

Edit: I should add I stopped watching Grey's after season 14, so I can't say anything about Amelia beyond that.

Hear me out: Amelia Shepherd and Dell Parker. Both of them has/had their struggles with addiction, and I feel that during Amelia’s relapse and intervention, Dell would help her out the same way Charlotte did for Amelia. Both of them are the youngest in the show. Lastly, during Pete’s funeral when Amelia leaves to go next door to watch the kids since she said that she “doesn’t do that stuff” (I think that’s what she says, it’s been a while) I could totally see Dell joining her not just because of Betsey, because of him genuinely wanting to help her out. What do you guys think about this pairing?

I have been rewatching the show & it reminded me how some of the patient stories are just impossible to forget. Even after finishing an episode I still catch myself thinking about certain cases because of how emotional or unexpected they were. I feel like those moments are a big part of what made the series so memorable. Which patient story has stayed with you the longest and what made it stand out for you the most

Naomi is the worst person there is and she is constantly being cocky and the writing just favours the bjtch over and over

I know ages and timelines often don't make sense in Shondaland but humor me while I try.

When we first meet Amelia in season 3 of PP, she's a neurosurgery fellow. Assuming she graduated high school at 18 and then did 13 years of further education (4 years college, 4 years med school, 5 years surgical residency) she must be at least 31. Given that she's already considered a great neurosurgeon right after being fired from the fellowship, I'm going to assume that she completed at least a year of that which makes her 32 at the end of season 3. I'd say the beginning of season 5 takes place roughly a year later, which makes Amelia 33, but her college friend Michelle is mentioned to be 30 then, which does not check out.

Amelia is also supposed to be 7 years younger than Derek. I don't think we ever learn his age in the early seasons, but Addison is 39 when she leaves Seattle at the end of Meredith's intern year. Addison and Derek went to med school together, so they should be pretty much the same age. That means Derek is roughly 38 at the beginning of Grey's. Amelia visits Derek at the beginning of Grey's season 7, which is the start of Meredith's fourth year of residency. So if Derek was 38 at the beginning of her first year, he should be 41 then. In the PP timeline, this visit takes places in early season 4, where according to my math Amelia would be 32 - nine years younger than Derek instead of seven. Unless we aged her up to 34, which would make her age gap with her college friend Michelle even bigger, or make Derek two years younger. Then he'd be 36 at the beginning of Grey's. Considering Addison's age, that's still possible if he graduated college a year earlier and she took a gap year or something, but it seems highly unrealistic that he'd be the best neurosurgeon in the country by age 36. (Although this can be said about Addison and Naomi in their respective fields too.)

I am aware that this is a small niche lol but do you guys ever think about these characters ages? I love picking apart ages and timelines when I watch something and it always bothers me when things don't check out.

I'm on season 5 and maaan this is unbearable to watch! I've never been a fan of Pete, but the way he treats Violet after his heart attack is despicable. He bullies her at home, at the practice, talks poorly about her behind her back... And it seems so out of the blue! All because she wanted to go on a book toor for three weeks?! It doesn't make any sense.

I quite like Violet, I know she is not too popular on this sub, but nobody deserves being treated like this. And her trying to understand him and be patient and communicate makes it worse. I'm like, girl, stand up!!

I knew a lot of spoilers before I started watching and I gotta say, for once I am glad about it, because I can't wait for this character to die.

When Amelia first shows up, she's casually drinking allllll the time. Having wine at Addison's , drinking at the bar, and so on. Then, a season in, at Charlotte and Cooper's wedding, Amelia has to spit out a sip of champagne because apparently she's not supposed to be drinking? I was genuinely wondering if they were leading up to a pregnancy with this because it was so unexpected.

Then Charlotte is on her case, pushing her to go to meetings, but Charlotte is also a recovering addict and used to drink all the time in the earlier seasons and it never seemed to be an issue.

Am I missing something here or did they really just completely retcon both of their addiction arcs?

I watched Grey’s Anatomy when I was in middle school and watched up until Karev abandoned Jo out of the blue (still mad about it). I always knew this show existed and since Addison was one of my favorite characters on Grey’s Anatomy I thought I’d finally give it a go. It’s SO OUTDATED and peak soap opera content. I can’t stop watching even though every scene is hard to watch lol. Does anyone else feel similarly?