What was private practice about tonight

The California-set medical drama from showrunner Shonda Rhimes will end this season after its episode run, with the network opting to not pick up the back-nine episodes, she announced via Twitter. Creatively, we are all extremely proud of the show and especially proud of this season — which you will all soon discover is a creative renaissance.

I feel so lucky to write for these characters and tell these stories and I truly feel this show has taught me so much as a writer. ABC picked up Scandal — after its seven-episode freshman run — for an extended second season in May, giving the showrunner three dramas at the network. Returning to Tuesdays this year, Private is averaging a 1. Total viewership for the drama, meanwhile, has slid from its first-season average of Walsh has played Dr.

There has to be something you can't have. Amelia: Some days I'd give that all up. Charlotte: That's just the craving talking. The longer you go without a drink Amelia: I drank at your wedding.

I thought it was ginger ale. I spit it out. Charlotte: OK, since then? Amelia: Nothing, but I can't stop thinking about it. Charlotte: It was an accident. Not in the traditional where characters die or move away or shut down the practice. I felt like I wanted them all to be happy.

I felt like, after all our characters had been through, they deserved to be happy. And so I very much wanted you to leave the final episode with this one feeling: that life at Seaside Wellness is going to continue to go on just as it has for the past 6 seasons.

Or at least all right. The script for the finale was long. Because I was in denial that it was all ending. Because I was freaking out. And because I was trying to smother any and all emotion I might have about it so that I could get through it. The script was LONG. So some scenes were cut out of the final 42 minute show you watched. Some scenes that were cut were scenes that I loved. Which felt very circle of life-y since Pete died at the beginning of this season.

I also had to cut Cooper and Charlotte booking a hotel room at the end to have a wild night of sex. But then they decided they were too exhausted for sex and all they admit to one another that all they want is sleep and room service and movies. I cut a dinner scene with Jake and Naomi and Addison on the deck where they overhear and awkward fight between Sam and his girlfriend. You wanted him with Addison. A lot of you did. My sister did. She yelled at me about it almost every single day.

And while I adored them together, I wanted Addison to be able to truly be changed. And be fresh. And Sam…. I wanted Sam with Naomi. I just did. I love Naomi. When Audra left the show to return to New York to win another Tony and do what she does best, I was thrilled for her. But I was sad for Naomi. And my vision of the end of this show was always about Sam realizing that he had been out there looking all around for something new and different when he should have been looking at home.

Sam is guy who had a mid-life crisis and blew up his marriage and never understood why. And in my mind, end-game for Sam was always Naomi. But it had to be done. Sam had to get his house in order. For him. And for Addison. I very much needed Addison to come full circle.

To no longer think of herself as a cheater. To have grown up.