Before Grey's Anatomy spin-off Private Practice took its Christmas hiatus, Pete's (Tim Daly) girlfriend Meg was back in Los Angeles and was a little suspicious of the apparent closeness between Pete and Violet (Amy Brenneman).  Meanwhile, Kevin was questioning the direction of his relationship with Addison (Kate Walsh).  Cooper (Paul Adelstein) encountered a young diabetic boy with a mysterious past, to say the least, while Charlotte (KaDee Strickland) and her team of Pacific Wellcare doctors continued to draw intense competition against Oceanside Wellness.

Meanwhile, tonight's episode of Private Practice is very reminiscent of a very memorable Grey's Anatomy episode.  Entitled “Contamination,” one of Cooper's patients, a six-year-old boy named Michael, contracts the measles after coming back from Switzerland and forces the quarantine of all those at Oceanside Wellness.  Apparently, the boy interacted with a lot of farm animals like sheep and cows.  Joining Michael in the pediatric ward is four-year-old Will and Jeffrey, who has autism.

Also, Naomi (Audra McDonald) is keen on pressuring Addison into working with her not-so-pleasant rival Wyatt on a fertility case.  Lastly, Violet and Pete start to wonder if their friends-with-benefits set-up should actually move to the next level, as Dell (Chris Lowell) aims to get sole custody of his daughter.

This episode is supposed to be “one of the best episodes of the season,” if the trailer is to be believed.  And of course, fans of Private Practice need to remember that the ABC medical dramedy will move to a new timeslot, Thursdays at 10/9c right after its original show Grey's Anatomy.  The quarantine episode on Grey's is called “Time Has Come Today” and on it, George and Derek had to stay in the locker rooms.  Very memorably, Bailey had to treat a patient from outside his room.


-Glenn L. Diaz, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
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