Grey's Addison in "Private Practice" peek rocked

Finally! A show with gratuitous displays of man meat and some real grown-up problems. My hand raises high for Dr. Addison Montgomery (Kate Walsh) to spinoff from Grey's Anatomy to the Oceanside Wellness Center in California. Grrrr! That was a really hot show last night.

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I couldn't wait to watch the 2-hour Grey's Anatomy last night where Addison takes a leave of absence to go clear her head in Santa Monica, and I was not disappointed at all. In fact, I wasn't much interested in what was going on at Seattle Grace. Although, that scene at the end with Meredith and her dad when she tells him that step-mom died was heartbreaking.

The way they have set up both shows is brilliant. There will be no conflict only compliment. Grey's Anatomy is about a group of young doctor's starting out in their careers, and they have all the life problems and issues that people in their 20's deal with on a daily basis. Private Practice (Addison's spinoff) is about a group of doctors who are late 30s-40s who have made some career shifts, have more life experience, and have "mid-life" type problems and issues at the forefront. Grey's features typical Western ways of healing, and Addison's show features Co-op, holistic healing modalities.

Right away, I got sucked into the issues of:

• You pursue your career for a long time only to find out that when you're finally ready to have a baby, you've missed your biological window. Now, you must deal with feeling like a barren, dried up spinster.

• You've spent your whole life on a timeline doing the right things, and in the end none of it worked out the way you dreamed about, and you felt robbed of your life because you spent too many years doing what you thought everyone expected of you.

• You get dumped for a pretty girl 20 years younger than you, and he marries her when he said that marriage wasn't for him when he dated you.

• Your heading into your 40's and you want to (or still do) hang on to the wild ways of your youth because somehow it will prevent you from becoming "old."

• You keep striking out sexually with the opposite sex, and now you're opposite sex best friends are starting to look real do-able. How many of you ever made one of these pacts with a guy friend or your gay BFF, "If neither one of us is married by the time we're 40-ish, we will marry each other."...[raising my hand]

One thing I really liked about the Addison show is that even though the cast is older, everyone looks hot, but realistic hot, not soap opera fake hot. They also have good chemistry. If that Wellness Center were a real place, I'd go there for treatment. Oh, and that kiss between Addison and Dr. Pete was panty-dropping-hot. There was indeed plenty of tongue. Splendid. Even though, Dr. Petey is a bit of a player like McSteamy, I think he's a better fit for Addison.

It's exciting to see Taye Diggs, Amy Brennaman, and Tim Daly back on TV. I love these actors. I thought it was funny that Amy Brennaman is now working with Tim Daly who is the real life sister of Tyne Daly, the actress who played Amy's mom in the show Judging Amy.

Lastly, I TOTALLY love the showing of alternative and co-op types of healing modalities. Disease in the body is just that dis-ease. Your body is not in ease, and illness is most often (in my opinion) physical manifestations of deeper emotional issues. I've had treatment from a husband/wife team before where the wife treated my body, and the husband treated my emotions/spirit, and I have to say that I did a great deal of healing during the time I saw them, and I believe it was because of the group effort.

I cannot wait to see more of Private Practice. Gimme more! This is gonna be a loooong summer.