Product Description
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From the Golden Globe-winning creator of GREY'S ANATOMY comes
ABC's new hit drama, PRIVATE PRACTICE: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON
EXTENDED EDITION -- now on DVD. Seattle fades into grey as
renowned surgeon Dr. Addison Montgomery (Kate Walsh) s to
reinvent herself. The promise of a simpler golden state of mind
has her working alongside medical school friends at California's
Oceanside Group. But is this new life prescription her
cure? Join Addison, newly-divorced-but-professionally-bound Naomi
and Sam Bennet, the kissable Pete Wilder, the by-the-book Dr.
Charlotte King, Cooper the Internet surfer, Dell the wave surfer
and Violet Turner -- a psychiatrist with her own issues -- as
affairs of the heart bring on symptoms of love, lust, and high
drama in a journey worth taking. You have an appointment with an
all-star cast including Taye Diggs, Amy Brenneman, Audra
McDonald, Tim Daly, Paul Adelstein, KaDee Strickland and Chris
Lowell for every Season One episode, bonus features, and the
perfect dose of complicated modern living, which is anything but
a PRIVATE PRACTICE.
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Addison Montgomery (Kate Walsh, Grey's Anatomy) leaves behind
McDreamy, McSteamy, and McSeattle to join California's Oceanside
Center, a private practice that was founded by two best
friends from med school. But if she's expecting a drama-free
existence, she's in the wrong place. Naomi (Audra McDonald) and
Sam (Taye Diggs) Bennett are the perfect couple who aren't
together anymore. Pediatrician Cooper Freedman (Paul Adelstein)
is a horny Peter Pan looking for love on the Internet. Violet
Turner (Amy Brenneman) is a psychiatrist who can dish out the
advice, but can't get over her own breakup to a man who has
clearly moved on. And then there's Pete Wilder (Tim Daly), an
alternative-medicine practitioner so good-looking and charming
that Addison can't stop crushing on him, even though she
dismisses his brand of practice as New Age-y. Created by Grey's
Anatomy's Shonda Rhimes to capitalize on Walsh's popularity,
Private Practice has some screwy moments that don't fall in line
with Addison's cosmopolitan character. Are we really to believe
that Addison is so messed up that she really believes the
elevator is talking to her? That conceit would've worked on Ally
McBeal's titular heroine, but on Addison Montgomery? We don't
think so. The show, which was affected by the writer's strike of
2007, lacks cohesiveness in the truncated 10 episodes on this DVD
box set. But still, the series shows promise. Though some of the
plot devises are melodramatic at best (Sam has to deliver the
baby of a woman who had been robbing the store just moments
before), viewers end up rooting for the quirky characters to get
their personal lives in order. Though we're supposed to be
longing for Addison and Pete to couple up, and for the Bennetts
to realize that their divorce was a mistake, it's really Cooper
and Violet who have all the makings to be the show's most
intriguing couple. The debut season showed some interesting plot
devices: two couples whose babies were mistakenly exchanged at
birth; a senior citizen with unexplainable bruising on his body;
and one of the female characters dealing with her own infertility
issues. But the thrust of the show is how the doctors work and
play together. Talking to one of her patients, Addison says,
"Everyone screws up once in awhile." That can also be the motto
for the Oceanside Center. --Jae-Ha Kim
Stills from Private Practice: The Complete First Season (Click
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