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Private Practice
SERIES: ABC, Wednesday 9:00p (60 minutes)
Starring
Kate Walsh,
Tim Daly,
Taye Diggs,
Amy Brenneman,
Audra McDonald,
Paul Adelstein,
KaDee Strickland,
and
Chris Lowell
Addison trades Seattle and her love triangle for California, Taye Diggs, and Tim Daly.
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
| CREATED BY: |
Shonda Rhimes
|
| FIRST AIR DATE: |
September 26, 2007 |
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75
New York Daily News David Hinckley
Private Practice at first glance looks like it's about to die. But by the end of its premiere tonight it has miraculously come back to life, apparently without even the aid of a tall, handsome, mysterious script doctor.
70
Salon Heather Havrilesky
Ultimately, asking if Private Practice is good is like asking if a Twinkie is good. The answer is "No" and "Of course!" and, also, "Give me another one."
70
Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd
New beginnings can be difficult; there are problems here, though they are not irremediable. By and large the show improves on its pilot.
63
USA Today Robert Bianco
Still, for all the show's flaws, here's the good news: Practice is far better than the dismal Grey's episode that introduced it.
60
Variety Brian Lowry
ABC's eagerly awaited spinoff of "Grey's Anatomy" initially qualifies as a disappointment -- hitting completely familiar medical-drama beats while pursuing a whimsical tone it never fully achieves.
60
Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart
I was disappointed by the opening episode, which left me with the distinct impression that Taye Diggs (playing a newly divorced doctor in the practice) and Tim Daly (Walsh’s first love interest on the show, but I’m sure not the last) were simply working off their ABC contracts that began on other, now-canceled shows. The portrayals of alternative medicine were unfortunate and too much forced zaniness.
60
Hollywood Reporter Ray Richmond
The talented cast isn't quite as successful in getting past the shortcomings of a teleplay (from Rhimes, naturally) that's typically light on believability and heavy on the outrageous.
50
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
Kate Walsh seemed like a guest star in what should be her show.
50
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
Even with Walsh's star sizzle and an attractive, talented supporting cast that includes Tim Daly, Amy Brenneman, Taye Diggs and Audra McDonald, Rhimes still hasn't found her spinoff's storytelling groove
50
Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray
The good news is that the show's first non-"Grey's" episode is a decided improvement and recaptures the sense of humor that the mothership seemed to lose last season. The bad news is that as a medical show, it's so predictable that anyone who's watched any David E. Kelley show in the past 15 years or so, from "Chicago Hope" to "Boston Legal," will see certain plot points coming a mile (or two) away.
50
San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum
Tonight's opening episode is somewhat better than the pilot, although it's clear there is still work to be done in defining the characters and setting an overall tone.
50
The New York Times Alessandra Stanley
The premiere showcases seven different women, doctors and their patients, in various states of anger, insecurity and neediness. It’s like a Hogarth engraving of the seven stages of womanly despair, “A Surgeon’s Progress.”
42
Entertainment Weekly Ken Tucker
The pleasure to be extracted from Private Practice--well, not so much pleasure as cringey curiosity--resides entirely in trying to figure out what's really going on inside the actors' heads as they skip through this latest Adults Are the New Spoiled Brats fantasy from "Grey's Anatomy" creator Shonda Rhimes.
40
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
Addison isn't very strong or decisive in her professional capacity either, spending most of the pilot waffling on whether she should have left Seattle Grace.
40
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
Fans of Grey's Anatomy femme fatale Addison Montgomery may find her a little dull now that she doesn't have a husband or boyfriend or intern to cheat on or with in ABC's spin-off Private Practice.
40
Baltimore Sun David Zurawik
While the series created by Shonda Rhimes brings some outstanding performers like Amy Brenneman and Audra McDonald back to weekly TV, tonight's season opener is not very appealing.
40
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
The problem is that Private Practice attempts to drum up comedy from things that aren’t funny and to wring drama from situations that are melodramatic, predictable or reek of barely repressed anger.
40
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
Private Practice manages to turn the viewer off in an entirely different way from the moment it starts.
30
Newsday Verne Gay
Private Practice is hugely disappointing, and in so many ways that a mere review can't even begin to do all the problems injustice.
30
TV Guide Matt Roush
This lightweight medical drama still needs serious script surgery.
30
Washington Post Tom Shales
Spun clumsily and greedily off "Grey's Anatomy," the new series seems shallow and smirky.
25
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
You can see the script and directional tone holding back the actors.
25
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
Private Practice is bad. Not "worse than "Grey's Anatomy bad" in the sense that Rhimes really is good at pulling people's heart strings with melancholy and humor.
20
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
It's amazing there's no orthopedist, since the show's so lame.
20
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
Private Practice is just plain McLousy, from its stock cast of whiny healers down to the hokey, gimmicky medical cases of the week.
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