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Relive every moment of ABC’s hit drama Private Practice: The
Complete Third Season – from the Golden Globe-winning creator of
Grey’s Anatomy. The challenges that Dr. Addison Montgomery (Kate
Walsh) and her co-workers at the Oceanside Group face
every day have bonded them into a tight knit family, but big
changes may be just around the corner.
An all-star cast including Taye Diggs, Amy Brenneman, Audra
MacDonald, Tim Daly, Paul Adelstein, KaDee Strickland, and Chris
Lowell is tested at every turn by the moral and ethical dilemmas
that accompany their clinic’s unique medical cases. Addison
learns a huge secret about her past while dealing with new
feelings for a friend, Sam and Naomi receive a life-changing
announcement from their daughter, Copper’s personal life is
affected when Charlotte joins the practice, Dell struggles to
raise a daughter on his own, and Violet realizes she has an
important decision to make regarding the well-being of her baby.
Own all 23 episodes of Season Three in this 5-disc DVD
collection, along with never-before-seen bonus features including
bloopers, deleted scenes, and Kate Walsh’s personal favorite
moments. With a prescription for a y dose of romance,
drama, and heartwarming moments, Private Practice makes perfect.
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Does any show--medical, legal, or plain old prime-time soap
opera--cram in as much personal melodrama and high-stakes issues
as Private Practice? Every episode is a staggering compilation of
psychological knots and thorny ethical dilemmas. To pick an
example almost at random, Violet finds her personal traumas
interfering with her ability to objectively counsel a woman who's
considering carrying her long-sought baby to term… even though
that baby resulted from a rape that she and her husband are
seeking counseling to leave behind. At the same time, Violet is
avoiding giving any affection to her own baby, the baby that was
untimely ripped from her womb at the end of season two, and the
baby's her (it would be a spoiler to reveal whom) tries
repeatedly to get her to even acknowledge the infant. That's only
one story line in the season's fourth episode, which also
features a homeless girl with a child trying to evade her
possessive mother, financial strife, and interpersonal conflict
between floors. Maybe seeing only one episode a week makes such a
traffic jam of issues seem exciting, but when watching the series
on DVD, the cumulative effect can be preous.
Over the season, love triangles expand into rectangles and maybe
even pentangles as Addison, Sam, Pete, Violet, Sheldon, and the
rest trade partners more often than square dancers. Addison is
stunned to learn secrets about her parents, Sam and Naomi are
shocked to learn secrets about their daughter, and pretty much
everyone reveals a secret of one kind or another at some point in
the series. And it ends with a dramatic operation on a pregnant
woman as she's simultaneously giving birth--and a central
character dies! Fortunately, these emotional high jinx are
carried out by a ridiculously good-looking cast; honestly, being
a guest star on Private Practice is downright cruel. (If Taye
Diggs isn't the handsomest man on television, he's at least in
the top three.) The combination of gloss and angst may turn some
viewers away, but others will dig into this show with delight.
--Bret Fetzer