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Private Practice
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6.9 User Score:

Mixed or average reviews

Based on 25 critic reviews
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Based on 61 votes
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Show Info

Genre(s): Drama

Created By: Shonda Rhimes

First Air Date: September 26, 2007

Summary

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.

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

75

New York Daily NewsDavid 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.

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70

SalonHeather 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."

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70

Los Angeles TimesRobert Lloyd

New beginnings can be difficult; there are problems here, though they are not irremediable. By and large the show improves on its pilot.

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63

USA TodayRobert 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.

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60

VarietyBrian 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.

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60

Kansas City StarAaron 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.

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60

Hollywood ReporterRay 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.

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50

Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen

Kate Walsh seemed like a guest star in what should be her show.

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50

Detroit Free PressMike 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

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50

Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen 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.

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50

San Jose Mercury NewsCharlie 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.

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50

The New York TimesAlessandra 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.”

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42

Entertainment WeeklyKen 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.

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40

Newark Star-LedgerAlan 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.

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40

Miami HeraldGlenn 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.

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40

Baltimore SunDavid 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.

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40

Chicago TribuneMaureen 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.

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40

Seattle Post-IntelligencerMelanie McFarland

Private Practice manages to turn the viewer off in an entirely different way from the moment it starts.

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30

NewsdayVerne 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.

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30

TV GuideMatt Roush

This lightweight medical drama still needs serious script surgery.

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30

Washington PostTom Shales

Spun clumsily and greedily off "Grey's Anatomy," the new series seems shallow and smirky.

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25

Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman

You can see the script and directional tone holding back the actors.

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25

San Francisco ChronicleTim 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.

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20

Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm

It's amazing there's no orthopedist, since the show's so lame.

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20

Boston GlobeMatthew 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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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this show is 6.9 (out of 10) based on 61 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Shay S gave it an8:
The show is good, and it as potencial, but the scripts could use work, because there is one thing in this show that REALLY gets to me - the fact that the characters cant spend 5 seconds on the same subject (of their personal life) if Addison is talking to Naomi abou a guy she likes, Naomi doesn't show ANY interest and chages the subject to HER, this happends with EVERY SINGLE CHARECTER! and it makes me mad! But overall the show is great, AND HOW THE HELL WASN'T KATE WALSH BEEN NOMINATED FOR AN EMMY ?!

Mary P. gave it a10:
Give Private Practice a chance !! It's a great show !! New Characters and relationships, internesting medical cases, Addison that we all love, ect.

Base One gave it a2:
Kate Walsh is not very good and the show itself is just dumb.

Nikki gave it a9:
I love this show! I cant wait for it to come back in the fall!

Kimberly Y. gave it a10:
I don't know what these awful comments were all about. This a awesome movie and it along with Dirty sexy money kept this single lady entertained. Please keep this show going! Those who like it probably not online writing it. I know about 8-10 people in my office that couldn't wait each week. It was office talk. You need to cancel dumb stuff like underbelly suggees and all the sill sitcom like According to Jim. Leave something for the serious folk! Private Practice is good and needs to be continued!

Susan L. gave it a2:
Ugh! All these doctors emote and worry about their feelings. I haven't seen so many men cry since the Toronto Maple Leafs did not make the playoffs -- again. Is all of California like this?

Casey J. gave it a0:
TV at it's worst. Boring characters, mostly average actors and a stupid plot, in a world where everybody and everything is retarded. No offense. Skip this one.

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