Private Practice Spoilers
Show Summary
From Shonda Rhimes, viagra the Golden Globe-winning creator of Grey’s Anatomy, comes a story about new beginnings and old friends. Addison Forbes Montgomery is a renowned neonatal surgeon, respected by her friends and colleagues at Seattle Grace Hospital. Deciding she can no longer healthily co-exist with her ex-husband, McDreamy and her ex-lover, McSteamy, Addison heads to Los Angeles for sunnier weather and happier possibilities. Reunited with her once-married, newly divorced medical school friends, Naomi and Sam, Addison joins their chic private practice. Stars: Kate Walsh (Grey’s Anatomy), Tim Daly (The Nine), Taye Diggs (Day Break), Paul Adelstein (Prison Break), Merrin Dungey (The King of Queens), Chris Lowell (Veronica Mars), Amy Brenneman (Judging Amy). (Source: TvGuide.com)
Episode Spoilers
5.01 – God Laughs 9/29
While Violet is nowhere to be found, the rest of the doctors’ work together to save Pete’s life after he suffers a heart attack. Addision wants a baby so she decides to meet with a specialist, only she runs into Jack Reilly, the mystery man she kissed. Sheldon is determined to help with Amelia’s alcohol problem. (Source: Tv.com)
5.02 – Breaking the Rules 10/6
5.03 – Deal With It 10/13
A woman without a uterus goes to Addison and Jake for help having a baby. Amelia, who seems to have her life back in control, treats a patient with Parkinson’s who can’t seem to stay faithful to her husband. Violet finds attending a mommy group isn’t helpful with coping to be a stay-at-home mom. (Source: Tv.com)
5.03 – Remember Me 10/13
A woman without a uterus goes to Addison and Jake for help having a baby. Amelia, who seems to have her life back in control, treats a patient with Parkinson’s who can’t seem to stay faithful to her husband. Violet finds attending a mommy group isn’t helpful with coping to be a stay-at-home mom. (Source: Tv.com)
5.04 – Remember Me 10/20
The tension between Violet and Pete reaches breakinpoint. Meanwhile Addison and Sheldon have a couple who’s pregnant, but don’t have any short-term memory due to a car accident, and therefore don’t remember she’s pregnant. Sheldon tries helping the husband to cope with his “new” wife. Cooper and Charlotte try to comprehend the big news regarding Coopers past. And Addison is worried how Sam is going to respond when she’s starting with the hormones to help her, get her baby. (Source: Tv.com)
5.05 – Step One 10/27
Without Sam’s knowledge, Addison starts her in vitro fertilization treatments. Amelia is at odds over what to do when her friend Michelle wants help ending her life. Sam and Violet have their hands full with a patient won’t take his anti-psychotic meds. (Source: Tv.com)
5.06 – If I Hadn’t Forgotten… 11/3
In her progress toward motherhood, Addison makes a decision on a sperm donor. Charlotte’s past comes back to haunt her while Amelia’s behavior continues towards recklessness. Cooper has to deal with parents who are giving their child drugs to control what they think is ADHD. Trust issues keep Pete from accepting Violet back into his life. (Source: Tv.com)
5.07 – Don’t Stop ‘Till You Get Enough 11/10
Amelia’s drug addiction spins further out of control as she plays hooky from work with a new fling, starts writing pill prescriptions for herself, and has a run-in with the cops; Addison and Jake are at odds when they must make the impossible choice between donating their patient’s organs or saving the life of her healthy, unborn baby; Violet begins working at Seaside Wellness again, and Cooper, Charlotte and Mason begin to form a family bond, much to Erica’s chagrin. (Source: Tv.com)
5.08 – Who We Are 11/17
Amelia returns after a twelve day bender with new fiancé Ryan at her side. The rest of the doctors, worried about Amelia’s life, stage an intervention, but she’s reluctant to get clean. (Source: Tv.com)
5.09 – The Breaking Point 11/17
Amelia checks in to rehab while at the practice, work continues for the doctors as usual. Meanwhile, Sam wonders whether Addison is risking her life in trying to become pregnant. (Source: Tv.com)
5.10 – Are You My Mother? 1/5
Cooper asks Charlotte how to punish Mason after catching him stealing. Violet offers to move back into the house so Peter can find a place nearby. Addison gets a visit from a social worker to make sure her place is safe for the arrival of a potential baby. Jake breaks the news to a patient that she’s unable to produce viable eggs ruining her chances of having a family with her partner. Amelia returns to the practice seeing how she hurt Sheldon while she was abusing drugs. Addison rushes after learning that the woman who’s baby she’s adopting is in labor. Charlotte takes Sheldon to the shooting range to take out his frustrations. Cooper sits Mason down and sets some ground rules in his punishment. Jake consoles Addison after her potential adoption fell through. (Source: TV.com)
5.11 - The Standing Eight Count 1/12
Newly single, Pete, Violet, Sam and Addison, each deal with their new lives in various ways. Addison begins to question how much she wants a baby. Violet is considering accepting a date offer. A night at a local bar is in the works for Sam and Pete. Charlotte is faced with an ethical dilemma after Amelia discovers a secret about Mason’s mother. Sheldon holds firm against pressure to rubber stamp a cop suffering from PTSD. (Source: TV.com)
5.12 – Losing Battles 1/19
Season Spoilers
Season Premiere: Private Practice (ABC), Thursday, Sept. 23, 10 p.m.
Kate Walsh says “there’s some craziness” in the upcoming episode that finds Addison and Jake travelling to Palm Springs for a medical conference, adding, “Addison is a little out there. Shonda Rhimes wrote some fun stuff for us to do. She really wrote the hell out of that episode.” (TVLine 1/17)
Don’t assume there will be a man in the picture when Addison’s motherhood comes. Rhimes, herself a single mother, says the end game for Addison won’t necessarily involve “a husband and a typical nuclear family… That’s not the goal for that character.”
Addison and Jake are going to Palm Springs during February sweeps for work and (maybe) play. “They go to Palm Springs for a medical conference,” explains EP Shonda Rhimes. “And I have to say that those scenes were some of the most fun writing I’ve done in a really long time. Kate Walsh is an amazing comic actress and she doesn’t necessarily often get the chance to be really, really funny. And this [episode features] both really awkward and really funny stuff. And Benjamin Bratt has great comic timing as well. I love them together.” (TVLine 1/10)
Rhimes says the arrival of Sam’s sister (played by The Good Wife‘s Anika Noni Rose) later this season will shed new light on what makes Taye Diggs’ alter ego tick. “They have been estranged for a very long time and this reunion happens in a surprising way,” reveals Rhimes. “It’s a chance to get to know more about Sam.” (TVLine 1/10)
Derek and Mark will make a cameo of sorts in Thursday’s two-hour, intervention-themed Private Practice when addict-on-the-attack Amelia hits Addison where it hurts — her heart and womb — by suggesting that Ad’s own obsession (with having a baby) is what drove away Derek and Mark in years past. Amelia also says Sam was smart to not want to start a family with her. (Ouch!) She then says Rosemary’s baby would not want to live among the tumbleweeds in her uterus. (Double-ouch!) Amelia also unloads on Pete and Violet, but, unlike Addison, they take the sticks and stones in stride. In fact, they have a good laugh about it later. (Source: Tvline 11/15)
The two-hour intervention episode on Nov. 17 centered on Amelia “doesn’t follow the regular format of the show,” Caterina Scorsone told TVLine. “Because it’s an intervention, everyone is involved in one storyline…. We were all on set every day. That’ll be amazing to watch.” Not surprisingly, Amelia doesn’t take kindly to the ambush at first. “She definitely has some resistance,” says Scorsone. “She interacts with each character individually, and they gave her their input and she gives it right back to them. It’s not the easiest episode to watch.” (Source: InsideTV 11/9)
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