Posted by Dustin on 12.04.2008 at 7:57 pm

On last night’s “Private Practice” two of the main stories dealt with babies, saving and terminating them. In on case Addison was forced to work with Charlotte, who she was less than pleased with because of her decision to open her own private practice above them. A woman was in a coma and was pregnant, but the baby needed to be delivered by C-section. The father insisted on a regular birth, as he heard it could bring her out of her coma. The parents began a legal battle, as the man and woman were not married. In the end the woman died, but the baby lived. It was a pretty tragic story all around.

In another story, Pete’s girlfriend Meg began working temporarily at the practice. She ran a volunteer outreach program, and her first case was a woman wanting an abortion. This stirred up mixed feelings among the doctors, mostly Naomi and some of the men. Naomi was against abortions and she felt given the practice has been so built around being a fertility clinic, it was a conflict. Addison and Violet however were fine with it. It was an interesting show in which both sides were given their say, as well as Dell coming to terms with his guilt that he wanted his old girlfriend to have an abortion but she wouldn’t. Plus Addison had the best line of the show when all hell erupted in the conference room. She told everyone in the room that didn’t have a vagina to leave so the ones with them could discuss!

For me though the best story was Violet’s. Her patient with the terminal yet verbally abusive wife he wanted to leave (but didn’t when he found out she was dying) ended up shooting the wife and killing her. He claimed she wanted him to end her suffering, but Violet wasn’t so sure. In the end he admitted that he had ended his own suffering and abuse at her hand . . . well mouth. That made it murder and off to jail he went. I loved that the show finally gave Violet a meaty storyline and had her interacting with everyone from Addison’s SWAT guy to the new psychiatrist Charlotte hired for her practice (played by Brian Benben). I absolutely love that actor (character’s name was Sheldon something) so I HOPE they keep him on as recurring and Violet bumps into him more. Their interactions were great!