Private Practice: The Rehab 2 Hour Event
So some quick thoughts on the 2-hour rehab event of “Private Practice . . . ” First off, I wish ABC would stop doing these 2-hour events. They are usually 2 shows back to back, not a true 2-hour event. One episode, usually the first, is always so much better than the other. Also sometimes 1 hour is all you can talk of some of these characters!
I loved the story with Cooper, Charlotte and Mason (and Mason’s mom). I’m glad they’ve all worked things out. I’m still not convinced though that something bad isn’t going to happen to them, like Mason’s mom dying suddenly. Did she finally reach out to Cooper because she knows she’s sick?
The Amelia story of course was great. Listening to her tear everyone a new a-hole was somehow cathartic! I was sad that they killed her druggie boyfriend Ryan, but we knew that wasn’t going to end well. They met on drugs, they got engaged in less than a week on drugs . . . yeah even if he lived it wouldn’t have lasted.
Pete and Sam formed the a-hole club in this episode. Violet was helping to support Addison as she was having a tough time with the baby thing. Pete told Sam that Violet was just making Addison her new pet project and she wouldn’t give up until Addison had a baby. Sam finally, after Addison passed out, told her to stop trying. Pete meanwhile confided into Sam that he didn’t want to be married to Violet, but wouldn’t be the guy who leaves . . . . Violet at the same time realized Pete wanted out, but wouldn’t leave just like he wouldn’t leave Anna. She told him that she didn’t want him to hate her like he hated Anna, she would leave if he wanted her to. He did (though he couldn’t even say it) so she packed up and left. Okay . . . .
1) ASSHOLE! COWARD! He couldn’t even tell her to go, or he wanted out. He shook his head and said “I’m sorry.”
2) This entire time we’ve thought Anna was some evil bitch wife, now I’m beginning to think it was Pete who was always the jerk.
3) Why the hell is Violet going to a hotel? That’s her damn house! Send Pete packing!
Seriously, I don’t know why they’ve had to totally destroy Pete’s character. He can have another heart attack and die at this point, I wouldn’t miss him. I got the feeling he didn’t want out, he was pushing her away and leaving because he’s still afraid of dying. He and Sam talked about what his odds of surviving past 10 years after the surgery were, and no matter what Sam told him, Pete seems to have resigned himself to an early death.
Addison’s attempts to get pregnant kept meeting with disaster, and she gave herself one last try before calling it quits. That’s basically how the show ended. With her in the bathroom on Thanksgiving looking at the pregnancy test.
My mom thought her eyes were saying that she’s pregnant, but I tried to tell her that you couldn’t tell anything and that’s how they always end shows…what does anyone else think? If she is pregnant, I don’t think it will last!
11.19.2011 at 3:15 pm
I think either:
A) The pregnancy test says no, but she actually is pregnant or B) this time also did not work and she will end up pregnant with Sam’s baby on accident. With Sam not wanting to be a father I feel like that will be what will actually happen.
11.19.2011 at 6:40 pm
I agree they totally ruined Pete, Sam has never been secretive about his not wanting a child if Addison wants to still be with him then whatever she can deal with his being how is he, I feel like they’ve run their course but would like Pete to flip asap as it looked like he was finally getting more normal in the epi before this. Amelia was the best part of this show and charolette, that woman can act, almost had me crying when she was telling her she’d kill someone and never come back from it
11.19.2011 at 8:39 pm