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Private Practice
Season Two
SERIES: ABc, Wednesday 9:00p (60 minutes)

5.8 based on 9 reviews read critic reviews how did we calculate this? based on 7 votes read user comments rate this tv show

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Starring Kate Walsh, Audra McDonald, Tim Daly, Taye Diggs, Paul Adelstein, and Amy Brenneman

No more dancing in a towel for Addison as the show's creator promises the show will be more serious.

GENRE(S):	Drama
CREATED BY:	Shonda Rhimes
FIRST AIR DATE:	October 1, 2008

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New York Daily News David Hinckley

It's hard to imagine reinventing the concept of the doctor show. But in a way, that's what Private Practice sets out to do in its new-look second season Wednesday--and it doesn't do a bad job.

60

Variety Brian Lowry

Rhimes (who co-wrote the premiere with Marti Noxon) weaves the dense web of life-or-death medicine and romantic whimsy well enough, and the program is so slickly written and performed it's easy to overlook the familiar patterns that are emerging; still, it would behoove both the characters and show to take a deep breath and find the key players some kind of extracurricular hobby--even if that just means lusting after strangers, perhaps, instead of co-workers.

50

Newsday Verne Gay

Creator Shonda Rhimes promised deeper, sharper medical stories this season to tether this show to the ground, and tonight Private Practice delivers those - even if the so-called "moral gray" area of each feels contrived.

42

TV Guide Matt Roush

I'm still waiting for this overqualified cast to get material that allows them to act like grown-ups as opposed to squabbling, whiny, gossipy, neurotic, sex-obsessed nimrods.

40

Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan

Though it’s better, Private Practice is not good enough.

37

USA Today Robert Bianco

Practice is still terrible, and I'm still not ready to give up.

33

Entertainment Weekly Ken Tucker

The combined writing talents of creator Shonda Rhimes and Buffy the Vampire Slayer mainstay Marti Noxon cannot resuscitate the ailing subplots now infecting the Oceanside Wellness medical practice.

30

Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert

The show remains a poorly conceived piece of work that throws a whole mess of relationship and medical cliches at us and hopes for the best.

25

Time James Poniewozik

After nine tepid episodes (and a subpar season of Grey's) last year, there's less reason than ever to care about the dramedies and quirky cases of sexy doctors at a ritzy "wellness center," and the return episode trudges along like a 44-min. chore.

The average user rating for this tv show is 5.8 (out of 10) based on 7 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Angela R. gave it a4:
Keep Kate Walsh...make her the PRIMARY STAR and forget everyone else. Take out the random, casual, dangerous sex..almost makes me afraid to go to the doctor's today..such irresponsibility. Have a happy marriage somewhere, not everyone with a train wreck life. Discuss REAL issues with families, bio-ethics. Good writing has to be out there SOMEWHERE. Look at all the doctor/medical shows on TV. Not one is married. All lives are fallen apart. Not a single happy marriage...makes the medical profession look like freaks. There is a hollywood agenda here to meltdown love, family and any sense of values at all. Amy Brannigan is a joke. I would never want to go to such a messed up, shallow therapist who has no idea how to love another human being. And, then the pediatrician...keep him the HELL away from my kids! He's like a dog who eats the crumbs from a dinner he wasn't invited to.

Seth gave it an8:
Reading these reviews, I am asking myself which Private Practice are the critics watching? This series is becoming slowly better and very entertaining. I would like Addison to return indefinitely to Seattle Grace. I don't like it that she's there.

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