Episode 3.22 and 3.23: The Other Side of This Life (Two-Hour Episode)
Airdate: May 3, 2007
Addison takes temporary leave from Seattle Grace and makes a road trip to Los Angeles in order to visit some old friends from medical school. As Meredith continues to bond with her stepmother, Susan, Cristina reluctantly plans her wedding with the assistance of her mother, Helen, and Burke’s mother, Mama Jane. Meanwhile, Derek must perform emergency surgery on Ava/Jane Doe, as Alex continues his unfailing bedside manner with her.
Addison’s old medical school pals will be Naomi (Merrin Dungey) and Jackson (Taye Diggs) whom she believes have it all: a beautiful teenage daughter, a great marriage and a highly successful health cooperative. Addison quickly learns that Jackson, also a successful TV health guru, has divorced Naomi. During the visit, Addison also meets the rest of the gang at the cooperative: a widowed alternative medicine doctor, a self-doubting therapist, and a male gynecologist who knows little about women, and realizes she is on familiar ground. Addison concludes that the personal lives of the people around her may be a mess, but professionally they stand out. So she decides to leave Seattle Grace behind and join the Oceanside Wellness Group team. That is, of course, if ABC picks up the series.
Burke starts to have some serious reservations about marrying Cristina. And you’re never going to believe whom he turns to for advice.
Chris Lowell’s receptionist/surfer dude will be shirtless in a scene. It’s also pretty obvious in the pilot that he’s being groomed as a love interest for Merrin Dungey’s fertility expert. And Tim Daly is actually playing an alternative-medicine doc. Addison is going to be penetrated by a little prick. Several little pricks, actually.
Derek and Meredith aren’t exactly on solid footing by the end of the May 3 episode. While she’s on the heals of losing someone, Meredith gets slapped by a man close to her and it is suppose to be very suprising.
The couple who’ll go see a therapist in the “spin off” episodes will admit that they are not attracted to one another, never were, and that they got married out of need as both were ready to settle down in their lives. Joan, the pregnant woman, slept with three men the week before she got married, which is why no one knows who the real father is. When she’ll get the paternity results, Joan will be stunned. It will be revealed that Beverly, the character who wants plastic surgeries after plastic surgeries, has a brain tumor.
The heavily anticipated Kate Walsh led Grey’s Anatomy spin off finally has a name – at least, a tentative one. ABC unveiled the moniker for the new show at a star studded media buyers event during network development week. […] ‘Private Practice’, is the name the Grey’s Anatomy spin off will be called by for now, but ABC exec’s are quick to caution that this may change.
Sources say Addison will be reunited with her god-daughter, daughter of Addison’s best friend (played by Merrin Dungey) who is a world-renown fertility expert and the big wig at a wellness center.
Three men fight over who is the father of a woman’s soon-to-be-born baby. In the ER, the doctor treating the mother (Joan) is concerned that the delivery could be dangerous for both the baby and the mom to be. Jane and Paul, a seemingly happy couple, visits a therapist as their sex life is not the best. One of the lead characters tries to settle a dispute involving a gay man who used to be married, left his wife, had a thing with another woman to make sure he was really gay, met a man, and got “married.” Add to this the fact that one of the women from his past is acting as a surrogate mother for him and his life partner. There is an awkward scene when a woman meets the 20-year-old fiancé of one of her old friends. A plastic surgeon meets with 30-year-old Beverly who is all about looking great thanks to constant plastic surgeries. This time, she wants a chemical peel; she also wants the hot surgeon but that’s another story. There is also a group therapy session in which the person in charge tries to show people what symptoms can be caused by life changes (like going bald) and depression.
Featuring an all-star guest cast including Paul Adelstein (Prison Break), Amy Brenneman (Judging Amy), Tim Daly (The Fugitive, The Nine), Taye Diggs (Rent, Day Break), Merrin Dungey (Alias), and Chris Lowell (Veronica Mars). The legendary Diahann Carroll also returns as Preston Burke’s Mother, Jane.
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