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Tonight on Private Practice... Violet gets a lot of things to chew on from her two men, Addison deals with pesky Archer and reunites a family, and Pete tries to save a drug addict.
Addison
Her brother Archer (a neurologist) is in town and she's treating a pregnant woman who is having a stroke. The parents are getting a divorce and the woman wishes she wasn't pregnant because the baby is keeping her soon-to-be ex-husband in her life. Archie wants to treat the woman's brain and save both but Addison isn't convinced his way is what is best for the baby. They put her into surgery to save the woman, which they do, but they have to deliver the baby early.
Addison is also mad about Archer going to work for Charlotte, a practice that is trying to submarine her, and with Archer being there to butt into her life. She wants him out of her city. She finally comes to grips with his being there but warns him to stay out of her personal life.
Violet
She still won't tell the boys that either one of them might be her baby's father. Shelden senses that there is something up with her but he doesn't know what. She spends all episode getting anti-children comments from both men. I gotta say, I want Pete to be the father. But that's mostly because I love Violet and Pete together and I've been in love with Tim Daly since Wings. Man, if they could get Steven Weber to guest-star, I would lose my mind. But I digress...
Violet also meets with the 52 year-old embryo seeker about her daughter's problems with her. The mother realizes that she wasn't a good mother the first time around and wants another chance because she can't bring her daughter back. Violet changes her mind and thinks they should implant Sharon with the embryos.
Naomi
Naomi turns to Sam for advice about Addison catching her schtupping Archer. She's also treating a woman, Sharon, whose daughter got in-vitro fertilization and was subsequently killed in a car accident (along with her husband). Sharon wants her daughter's leftover frozen embryos. To be transplanted into her own uterus. At the age of 52. Oh my goodness.
Violet informs Naomi that the dead girl HATED her mother and would never agree with giving her mother another child. Oooh, sticky.
After a night of sex, Archer informs Naomi he can't hang out the next night because he has a date. She pulls away (as well she should) and he smarmily calls himself "the good-time guy." Ewwww! Yeah, a guy cannot ROLL off me and then tell me he has a date the next night. It's called tact and... having feelings and crap. She calls Sam for advice, which is very cute, and the scene is hilariously shot because his new girlfriend Sonja is there getting undressed for sex. Nicely done, show.
Naomi then turns to Addison for advice. Addison tries to warn her off and voices her frustrations about Archer messing in her life.
Pete
Pete is treating a guy named Keith who is a drug user with Hep C. He comes to Pete for clean needles. Keith goes a little crazy, smashing shelves and knocking Dell down. Dell's black/white view of the world has him arguing that Keith needs to go to prison. Pete thinks Keith can get clean with the right help.
Pete goes to see Keith's wife, who cannot believe Pete is enabling him with clean needles. In our big moral dilemma of the week, Pete calls addiction a disease and the wife calls it a choice.
Pete finds Keith in the hospital after being found passed out on the beach. He has an infection from not using the clean needles and Pete tries to yell some sense into him about saving himself. He gets Violet to sign a form that forces him into a psych facility for 72 hours, with the hope of a 30-day hold. Keith resists but the cops lock him up in the psych ward.
Cooper and Charlotte
Charlotte is mad and barely speaking to Cooper because she thinks he turned down her proposal, which he did not do. Turns out she's not mad, she's humiliated and hurt. Le sigh. Cooper finally insists on proclaiming his love for her and telling her that he won't give up even if she has.
Charlotte finally starts speaking to him again and brings a casserole as a peace offering. She tells him that moving in is a good first step, like he wanted them to a couple months ago. Unfortunately, he has just decided to move in with Violet. Charlotte chokes back tears.
Sam
Sam is having anxiety-induced asthma and can't seal the deal with Sonja. Naomi helps him get some stuff from Pete for his asthma. They are friends now. That's about it. What a poor use of Taye Diggs.
Dell
Who's Dell? What purpose does he serve? His black/white view of the world and seeming sole purpose of being there to take the hard line on every issue is annoying.
Why did Cooper have to tell Charlotte? Why couldn't he have just said yes to her and told Violet things were off? If he really loves Charlotte, why wouldn't he do that? And why are Sam and Dell so useless?
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I love Pete and Violet together, too. Last year I was Cooper/Violet, but now I'm sold on Pete/Violet and Cooper/Charlotte.
And Wings was the ****, yo. Tim Daly + Steven Weber + Tony Shalhoub + Thomas Hayden Church = WIN.
Wings was the ****. My favorite episode is when Weeb dies and Lowell writes a poem and Helen gets a concussion and has to be kept awake all night. Fantastic.
Three cheers for Wings! I second all the fan comments above with great enthusiasm.
Wyatt is gone. He didn't last long. I see the actor who played Wyatt is on a new comedy. Should have known when I saw that that smarmy Wyatt was outta there.
I find Archer totally annoying. I hope he doesn't become a permanent fixture on the show.
I'm totally Violet/Pete also. I like Sheldon, just not with Violet. lol
I felt so bad for Charlotte when Coop said he was moving in with Violet. Poor Charlotte.
Did I hear them write off Wyatt with one subtle single line from Archer to Addison? Something like, "You're just upset because the previous doctor left to chase the money of a big time grant"? Wow...and I thought Grey's Anatomy kicked people off the show quickly.
Andrea - I would absolutely LOVE Valerie Mahaffey to guest star as a patient of Pete's so she could be reunited with her "Joey Bear" from "Wings".....: )
One of my favorite Wings episodes was where Matthew Fox guest-starred as a high school pitcher who was about to break Joe Hackett's record. At the end of the ep, Brian surprised Joe with a baseball and a catcher's mitt in the hangar for a game of catch. Brian told Joe to "bring the heat". Joe pitched a fast ball in slow motion showingJoe throwing his arm out, the pitch hitting Brian in the forehead, and as Brian falls over, his gum flies out of his mouth. I could think of that scene for WEEKS afterwards and laugh out loud. I do like Private Practice, but Wings was gold.
I wonder if they'd let me recap old Wings episodes just for funsies... Hahahaha.
You guys crack me up. Ginni, that'd be an awesome guest star.
Robyn, I haven't thought about that scene in years, but I'm laughing just picturing it.
Wow! I loved Wings too, but how do you guys remember it all so clearly after all these years? I'll have to see if it's somewhere on repeats.
I have always and still wish for Violet and Cooper to be together. They have such a nice genuinely caring relationship. Food is Love, all that pastry! And Cooper loves kids. AWKWARD that one of the other guys is the father! I can kind of see Cooper with Charlottte based on his weird online porn site enjoyment which actually never seemed to me to be in keeping with his character. I fear that Charlotte would keep him constantly unhappy though. That is one high maintenance lady!
I am finding the doctors in this series to be extremely judgmental toward their patients. For example in another episode some of the doctors felt that a group of college girls shouldn't be treated at all because they were working as call girls. The doctors seem to be making a lot of decisions for their patients. In this episode, the fate of the embryos should have been determined by biological parents. I believe they left them to the mother? That doesn't make sense if the girl hated her mother. The Wellness Center should have all patients fill out a form that specifies what is to be done with any leftover embryos. Whether they are to be donated, or destroyed, or in this case given to her mother.
I am pleased that Violet seems this season to be a much better therapist than in the first shortened season.
I was excited to see the show after last week. But - what happened to Wyatt? I really liked the chemistry between him and Addison. I hate that Addison turns to mush around her brother.
Loved the Sam and Naomi banter but hated the Violet/Charlotte/Cooper twist. The show last week was so good and this week just left a bad taste when it ended