He can have a ‘Private Practice’ with me anytime!

I’m not the biggest fan of Grey’s Anatomy. I mean, I used to be. The first and second season had me at hello, and the finale where that hot dude asked Izzie to marry him and then kicked the bucket minutes before she walked into his room? Jesus. I was crying so hard my roommate started to panic.

But then I got busy, and the show got lame. Everyone started hooking up with everyone else (what? It’s a huge hospital. Branch out!), the dialogue got a little too quippy, and those endings with the sad folk-rock montages became old. I was over it.

Until just now. Home alone on a Friday night, swiffering the piles of cat hair off my floor (sounds cool, huh?), letting the TV talk to me on the background, I watched some catch-up episodes of Grey’s. Same old same old. Meredith looked pained, George looked cute and pained, McDreamy looked stubbled and pained, and everyone else told some jokes in between looking pained.

The episode in question, entitled “The Other Side of This Life”, was apparently the first look at the characters for the Addison Montgomery spin-off Private Practice. As I swiffered, I kept one eye on our insanely small TV and the other on the flying piles of dander until HE came on the screen. Read More »