Cooper and Charlotte discussing his adoption.
Private Practice “Apron Strings”
This episode focuses primarily on Addison and how she handles Henry’s birth mother Judi coming back into his life and asking to see him. They had an open adoption agreement, but so far, Judi seemed to have no interest in pursuing the regular visits with the son she gave up.
With Addison’s situation, Cooper discusses how he was adopted and Mason overhears, and begins asking questions about why he didn’t ever want to meet his birth mother.
One big happy… family?
In addition, Addison’s mentor, Vivian, comes to town, very ill, and Addison learns how Vivian’s situation mirrors her own at the moment. Vivian also gave up a child when she was young, and they discuss boundaries and feelings about having the birth mother and the adoptive mother in the child’s life.
Vivian, having no family left, wants Addison to find the daughter she gave up and give her a letter–the only “affairs” she really wants in order before she passes.
Addison is also being sued by a mother who said she wasn’t “prepared” to cope with her daughter’s spinobifida and said that Addison should have advised her to abort. It all works out, though.
And, the big shocker–lucky we only had to wait a day until we found out what happened next: Addison proposes to Jake!
Where did you find the strength? -Addison
We’re women, honey. The strength finds us. -Vivian
No pictures from this episode, so I picked a happy one from “Apron Strings.”
Private Practice “The World According to Jake”
Jake’s daughter is dating a professor way older than she is, and he has to meet Addison’s case worker for adopting Henry. As far as Addison’s proposal goes, it wasn’t that he didn’t think they were ready, it was that he wanted to be the one to ask.
Unfortunately for Addison, Jake has a history of violence, which comes up when he has to give up his fingerprints to the social worker. He beat up a drug dealer who was coming after his wife to peddle more drugs, so reasonable reaction, except that he took it a bit too far.
Unfortunately again, he threatens his daughter’s new boyfriend with the same fate, and she confronts him just as the social worker walks in. Addison has hope that it will all work out right, but it’s hard to say. He dug himself a pretty deep hole on that one.
Addison is worried about one of Jake’s patients, Meghan, who she believes relies a little too heavily on his help and wants her baby a little too much. She thinks Jake is too available to his patients and is upset that it is going to interfere with their life on a regular basis.
As it turns out, Addison was right–Meghan makes a move on Jake when he pays her a house call, and then tries to say he came on to her. Addison knows better and says so.
While it’s unclear what Jake and his daughter are going to do to resolve their problem, at least Addison and Jake are on their way to walking down the aisle!
It’s so great to see Addison so happy. She has certainly matured over the past few years, first on Grey’s, and now on Private Practice, from how she viewed herself and her relationships. Motherhood has definitely had a positive effect on her.
Parenthood
Christina’s chemo really starts to kick in. Max is completely oblivious to it and acting out a little more than usual while Adam tries to hold it all together. Eventually he comes up with the perfect solution: Uncle Crosby has weed which will go a lot further towards helping Christina’s nausea and side effects from the chemo than the meds the doctors gave her.
Sydney acts out as a result of all the attention that Joel and Julia are giving to Victor. As much as they don’t want to admit it, it is kind of true. Sydney was spoiled before, but Joel and Julia have given Victor a lot more leeway than they ever gave Sydney. I’m not a parent, let alone an adoptive parent, but in my mind, it is important to treat kids fairly because if there’s one thing they can sniff out, it’s favoritism.
Amber learns more about Ryan’s past and Drew and Amy get caught by Mark, but the real subtext is Hank’s return–Sarah asks for his input on the issue with Mark and Drew’s little alliance, and it’s still pretty clear there is more between them than a working relationship.
I always liked Mark (he was a lot of fun to watch on The Event), and I loved when he showed up on Parenthood, but it was never going to work with him and Sarah. Not just because of their age difference but because she is a lot more high maintenance the type of girl he should end up with.
Up next:
This was the end of last week’s catch-ups, so now we’re onto the new week–Revenge, all-new CBS Monday (it looks like Partners was finally kicked to the curb as they’ve aired reruns of Two and a Half Men and the Big Bang Theory the last couple weeks), all new Fox, NBC and Leverage on Tuesday (ABC is off for a special DWTS), new Wednesday episodes of Nashville and AHS (NBC is off for a special SNL Christmas event), and all new Thursday too.
Another busy week! But, it’s the last week of Nano, so I may still be catching up on these into December because my word count is still barely hovering at the daily goal.
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