Private PracticeNothing to Talk About
Original Air Date: Oct 22, 2008
Laura Ann - TwoCents Staff Writer
LauraAnn@thetwocentscorp.com
This episode of Private Practice was all about talking about not talking.
Sam & Naomi are having sex. But they're not talking about the fact that they're divorced & having sex again out of a weird psychological need of Naomi's. They are instead discussing the budget for the practice.
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Original Air Date: Oct 22, 2008
Laura Ann - TwoCents Staff Writer
LauraAnn@thetwocentscorp.com
This episode of Private Practice was all about talking about not talking.
Sam & Naomi are having sex. But they're not talking about the fact that they're divorced & having sex again out of a weird psychological need of Naomi's. They are instead discussing the budget for the practice.
Pete & Addison are running at the gym. She tells him about the embarassing message she sent Swat Guy. He tells her he slept with the temp & that she called him "old" but said he was good in bed...at which point Addison falls off the treadmill & is sent to...
St. Ambrose Hospital!! We find out that Dell is working there as a nurse
Sam is stressing that consults only last for 15 minutes until Violet gets a patient who is an insomniac. She believes her son is a sociopath because he killed their dog.
Pete, meanwhile, has a fire chief who wears women's underwear to cope with stress as a patient.
Cooper has a patient who is a baby with an abnormally huge head. There's nothing medically wrong with him...except that.
Addison runs into Swat Guy who takes her to lunch & then asks her on a date. Charlotte offers her a surgery at St. Ambrose & subsequently offers her a job there. Yay! Surgeon Addison again! Naomi sees her there & also tells Dell that she wants him to work at the practice again. Addison doesn't accept the job. Dell decides he'll stay with St. Ambrose.
Violet goes to try & figure out the sociopathic boy & he greets her with a baseball bat & asks why she made his mom cry. He admits the dog had cancer & they couldn't afford to put the dog down so he killed him.
One of the last scenes was pulled out of nowhere...Violet randomly tells Naomi that her feelings have been hurt for a long time because when Addison came back Naomi stopped being her best friend. Once again..pulled out of nowhere.
All in all it was a good episode. Many of the others are strung very well together & flow seamlessly around the moral dillemma of the day...but this one was scattered a bit. They went from not talking, to being yourself, to running away, & the big climax with Jesse, Violet, & the baesball bat with the confession could have been done a lot better. I wish they had cut out the storyline with the underwear wearing fire chief because it served no purpose. I would have loved to have seen a bigger build up of Jesse possibly being a sociopath.
The last ten minutes of the episode, however, were totally redeemed by three things:
1. Dell came back!!! He gave them a list of demands, one being that he not have to wear pink scrubs because he's "a man dammit!" (and what a man he is. I love the Dell.)
2. Cooper & Charlotte shared a super adorable moment when he wouldn't let her touch him until she told him why she was upset. They showed this side view of the two of them standing in her living room & he's really tall...(I love the Cooper too.)
3. Addison & Swat Guy go on their date that evening at a shooting range where she lets out frustration with a pistol & says that talking is overrated.
Even though it wasn't the best of Private Practice..it was still way better than this season of Grey's Anatomy.
Grade: B-
Favorite Quote:
"Hello Addison. How are you today?"
"I'm doing great. How are you, Mr. Scrub Cap?"
(Addison talking to herself & her scrub cap in her office)
"Hello, Addison.
I'm great. How are you Mr. Scrub Cap?"