Private Practice: The Character Episodes . . .

Private Practice: The Character Episodes . . .

Posted by Dustin on 11.22.2012 at 4:01 pm

So the last few “Private Practice” episodes have all been fairly character centric. We had a Jake one, an Addison one, and a Sam one. Next week appears to be Charlotte/Cooper, and the one on Sheldon is supposed to be very powerful. My guess is that it will deal with the pedophile patient he has. I really don’t know if I wanna watch that one . . .

The Sam centric episode did little for me. I think it’s because I’ve come to loath him so much. Even though we learned about his troubled past, I didn’t feel anything for him. We found out that his mom (Alfre Woodard, who is apparently on every show now) had a long ongoing affair with her best friend’s husband, who was Sam’s bio dad.

For her episode, Addison, who had an open adoption with Henry’s birth mom, started feeling ambushed when after months of no contact she and her mother showed up to see Henry constantly. Addison freaked out, understandably so, but in the end they worked things out.

The last episode focused on Jake and his step-daughter and the fantasies (?) he’s been having of conversing with his dead wife all these years. It took me the entire episode to realize she was from “GCB!” I kept wondering how I knew the actress. Jake and Addison are getting married and both are now moving into the next phase of their lives with one another and Henry.

Frankly, the back stories which only got a few minutes of attention were far more interesting than any of these stories!

I am really hoping that we find out what happened to the child who went missing from the hospital before this show ends. Violet has been involved in helping the parents dealing with that.

Amelia is slowly becoming involved with the new doctor that Charlotte hired to replace Pete at the hospital, though she’s had her guard up.

Sheldon is battling the demons of prostate cancer, his weird relationship with his ex, and the pedophile patient.

Finally the whole adoption storyline brought up questions in Mason about Cooper’s parents given he was adopted.

All of these stories were way more interesting than Addison and her men! Too bad we can’t have a spin-off of this spin-off to deal with non-Addison related stories.

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