By Sabrina Cognata

You know, I really, really wanted to like this stupid show.  Too bad it sucks beyond comparison.  I liked Addison’s (Kate Walsh) character on Grey’s Anatomy.  She was no nonsense and all action.  Then you realize that she was banging Dr. McDreamy and you have to respect her for getting up and leaving him and the entire city of Seattle for Los Angeles.  Now Addison is working in her best friend, Naomi’s (Audra McDonald) private medical center, Oceanside Wellness Group and dealing with more of the daily professional & personal drama associated with being a doctor.  Here is the assumption I can make about doctors after watching this show:  DOCTORS ARE LOSERS.

At any rate, the episode begins with Pete, Violet & Cooper (Tim Daly, Amy Brenneman & Paul Adelstein respectively) crashing Addison’s pad to attack her view of Sam’s (Taye Diggs) apartment to watch his reaction to the stripper they bought him.  These guys are charming friends, right?  Doesn’t everyone buy their newly single boss a stripper when they also work with his wife?  That’s what I thought.  Anyways, Addison turns into the flipping crusader of Naomi’s feelings and scolds everyone.  While this happens Taye Diggs notices a mysterious rash on the stripper’s ass and signs her up as a patient. Viewing audience, this is your subplot.


The next day at work everyone is in a tizzy.  Cooper, a pediatrician, has a patient whom he discovers is not the birth child of the parents taking care of her.  Moreover, the child is inflicted with an incurable genetic disorder that will take her life before she turns five-years-old.  Someone break out the smallest violin in the world.

Meanwhile, Violet is confronted with her past and the destruction of her marriage when the super slick Italian racing bike she ordered for her husband (now her ex) arrives in the mail.  It reminds her of the fact that everything she’s worked for has crumbled and she tries pawning it off on Cooper.  Turns out, even though Cooper is a giggalo of sorts, the man has a soul and tells her he wants nothing to do with that bike.  OH GOD, THIS CHARACTER HAS DEPTH, AMAZING. 

The entire episode Addison is walking around like she is the Virgin Mary and acting like she has never slept around.  Well out here in T.V. Land we know the truth.  Addison is a good ol’ harlot—WE REMEMBER FROM OUR TIME WITH HER AT SEATTLE GRACE HOSPITAL.  She has a shallow exchange of words with Pete where she basically says he is a soulless and horrible person & that she has to look out for Naomi.  Pot calling the kettle anyone? 

In the meantime, the doctors of Oceanside Wellness Group have contacted the hospital the mutated baby was born at—turns out the other baby, the parents REAL child, is also a patient of Naomi’s.   After being alerted of this fact the host parents of the healthy baby go bananas.  They’ve spent every last dime to have Naomi get them pregnant and now they have to hear the baby they’ve loved and taken care of isn’t even theirs.  Boo-flipping-hoo.  Everyone is trying to figure out how a switch occurred.  It’s pandemonium.  At some point they realize the only person alone with both babies was the father caring for the healthy baby, from the couple that had trouble conceiving a child to begin with. 


The doctor’s confront him and he goes into a rage about how much time and money and effort they put into making an unhealthy baby and it’s apparent that he made the switch.  He is hauled off to jail for being a baby snatcher while the two mothers exchange babies like they’re packages.  Only the mothers cry a lot and talk about how to put the infants to sleep.  I know this is the part where I am supposed to feel something or perhaps cry, but instead I just needed to know how much longer till the show would be over. 

I just cannot get into this show.  I feel like it’s contrived, the writing is forced and it’s desperately trying to show this other side of the medical community in Los Angeles that isn’t obsessed with fake tits or a smaller, tighter ass.  These are doctors that care.  These are real medical professionals that cry when their stupid husbands leave them, or when they realize they are going to be alone.  God forbid we have to feel badly for them when this is just regular crap each and every one of us has to go through.  On the bright-side Tim Daly & Taye Diggs are cute as hell.  Too bad this show is not going to last.  Too bad  I cannot wait till this show gets the axe either.  Oh well.