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Private Practice: The Complete First Season

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Private Practice - a spin-off from the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy - debuted in September 2007, with Addison Forbes Montgomery (the beautiful Kate Walsh) starting a new life in a private practice medical clinic in LA.

Many have tried to compare the show to Greys, which should be avoided as it has an entirely different tone - lighter, funnier & less OTT-angsty than Greys. It also benefits from being set where it is actually filmed & features location filming out-and-about in LA.

Kate Walsh shines as Addison & easily carries the show. She is surrounded by a small core cast of experienced & talented actors - Tim Daly, Audra McDonald, Taye Diggs, Amy Brenneman, Paul Adelstein, Chris Lowell & KaDee Strickland.

After a rocky first episode, the writing improved as the series progressed & the show started to find its own identity & distance from Greys.

It was the highest-rated new drama this year & one of the first freshman shows to be picked up for an entire 22-ep run, but sadly the US writer's strike shortened the season to only 9 episodes.

ABC have chosen to re-launch their successful new shows in Fall 08, which is when Private Practice will return with Season 2 to anchor the Wednesday night line-up.

The extras for this DVD release are -

1. Kate Walsh - Practice makes Perfect (Working Title) - spend some quality time with Kate Walsh & get a taste of her life beyond the confines of the Private Practice Set
2. Alternative Ensemble : Behind the Scenes of Private Practice
3. Two Extended Episodes
4. Deleted Scenes
5. Bloopers
6. Audio Commentaries

This show just got better and better with each episode. It came into its own, finding a great balance between comedy and drama. The acting is wonderful, Kate Walsh is SPECTACULAR, she just keeps adding more and more layers to the character we have all come to love as the beautifully complicated Dr. Addison Montgomery. Amy Brenamann is wonderful as the talented and flawed Violet. Tim Daly is great as the sexy complex quack Pete. Taye Diggs is deliciously HOT, funny, somewhat dorky, but still manly Sam, Audra McDonald is great as the ex-wife who is trying to keep it all together but you can see that she is on the brink of breaking down completely, and Paul Adelstein is a maverick of talent. LOVE this show I definitely see nominations for the show and the actors in the near future especially for our AMAZINGLY talented leading lady Kate Walsh.


I am so excited for this series to come out. I miss this AMAZING show. I can't wait till it comes back this fall.

I rather like "Private Practice". It's often implausible, but that's one of the features of escapist entertainment. The cast is talented and attractive. I'm looking forward to watching the new season. But I can't give this first DVD set a good review, because it just isn't a good value.

Due to the writers' strike, Season One of "Private Practice" only had 9 episodes. A normal season is 22 shows. But this collection's list price is the same as for a full season. The producers, having taken a major financial hit by not having as much advertising revenue as expected, are trying to recoup some of their costs from us by overpricing this set. I can't condone that.

I rate this collection 3-4 stars for quality, but only 0-1 stars for value. That gives a combined rating of 2 stars: disappointing.

I absolutely love this show (I saw almost all of it when I was in America and thankful for that because Australia is last again). It's fantastic and addictive and funny and so enjoyable. If I'm going to be completely honest, the main reasons I began watching this is because of Tim Daley and Taye Diggs. Especially Tim - he's so cute. But I found myself getting really involved with the story lines and the characters and now have a new favourite show.
After the initial episode of seeing the crossover from Greys to Private, we see the first episode called In Which We Meet Addison, a Nice Girl From Somewhere Else (all the episodes are called In Which ...) where she joins the Oceanside Wellness Group where she was offered a job. The clinic is mostly owned by one of her best friends in college. One of the other workers there is Dr Pete Wilder (Tim Daley) who throughout the season, she has a strong strong chemistry with. It makes for very interesting situations. Some of the episodes are written by Shondra Rhimes so they still have a Greys feel to them.
I have to say that I really like this more than Greys. The characters are all fantastic and complex and that helps make this show great. I'm so lucky that I got to see a lot of this when I was in America last year because as usual, Australia is behind the rest of the world with most things and I have no clue when we are getting this. I just hope my copy of this dvd comes before we get to FINALLY see it over here. I love this program and can't wait to own the dvd. I highly recommend it.

Private Practice was a sleeper when it came out, meaning, it came out of no where and with each episode it got better and better. I don't think anyone expected it to do well, I still think a lot of people haven't given it a chance. DO. It will be worth it.

The format for this show is the same as Grey's, a mix of medical drama and character drama/storylines. Both are entertaining, fun and intelligent. I am so pleased with this season of PP. I was worried it might bomb, but every week the show got better & better in my opinion. In part, it always takes a while for the characters to sort of grow on me. More and more I found myself anticipating the next show and enthralled at the character developments.

If you missed the first season of PP, get it on DVD. Don't miss the second season, I have a feeling it's only going to get bigger & better!

Spin-offs of TV series are rarely as good as the original, and "Private Practice" is a perfect example. Some reviewers have cautioned us not to try to compare this to "Grey's Anatomy," but that is impossible--for me, at least. "Grey's Anatomy" was about the journey of five young interns on their way to becoming surgeons. The first two or three seasons were fascinating, but then it faded, and out of that fade was born "Private Practice."

Set in Los Angeles it is about doctors who treat people with holistic medicine, acupuncture, psychiatry, doctors who do not dress like doctors, doctors who drink white wine and look as if they just dropped in the office from the beach. The story lines are most often about people problems, rather than medical problems.

And as such, I just didn't find it worth watching when there are so many other better things.

I actually enjoyed the commentaries more than the shows. No just kidding, pretty much as good as shows. Can't blab on long enough. Especially Taye and Chris fantastic, well matched together and Amy and Paul. Feel like I know them all personally. Watched it all way too many times. Shame there was only 9 episodes, really a great show. Blah blah blah. How am I going to cope with 22 in 2nd series can't wait. I'm sorry gonna say it the best lookin practice I have seen can I drop in for an appointment. Keep up the great work.

Started watching season 2 of private with a friend and decided to get season 1 so I would be totally caught up. Great show, made me laugh cry and everything in between.

Only few spin-off have managed to be successful. Private Practice has a good potential but it still needs a rythm. It really started to be interesting when the season stops. Some characters have still been able to develop a good chemistry. The medical cases are different. Overall I found it fun, interesting and likeable.

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