Private Practice - season 3

Patrick, do you watch this show?

Uhm, not sure how much I want to say here.

First, this is not the type of show I would ever think
of watching.  It's an over-the-top soap opera made
for housewives.  

I was invited on the set last October, got to meet
the cast, including Paul Adelstein (who plays Dr.
Cooper).  I figured since I was so impressed by the
experience of visiting such a massive set, that I
would commit myself to the show.

So commit myself I did.  Watched most of last
season and now into the third.

Well, I have to say this (not that I am sure I want
to)....

I think I am in touch with my feminine side.  I find
myself immersed in this show, sometimes getting
a little moist in the eyes.  I realize that this is just
an elaborate soap opera, but the ensemble of actors
are first-rate and they really pull off convincing
performances each week.  Of course, the writers 
know exactly how to pull at the emotional strings.

After last night's episode, I am completely out.  I had said last year the problem was that most of the characters were so.. you can't really like any of them.

And now we have two characters as leads that have moved into the despicable category.

They had previously destroyed another character.. a meth head mom blows up her house/kid, and he doesn't want his daughter to see her in her dying moments and he becomes the "bad guy"..

Bargh.  Just at every turn, this show has become so tone deaf.  It's not that it has a viewpoint I disagree with, because that happens and can make good drama.  It's that it lives in such a world of absolutes and wild crazy mood swings and redefinitions of characters at a drop of a hat.

This show and Heroes both need to go.  Of shows with some ratings success, these shows need whacked.