A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

SOME CARROT TO GO WITH THE STICK: We've rightly panned Bad Shonda here, but I wanted to note that we also had Good Shonda this week in the form of Private Practice. The three major medical narrative threads didn't weave together terribly well, but each was affecting on its own basis. Particular credit is due to the Del/Naomi/Meg plot thread (I'm not going to spoil), which managed to handle a sensitive topic with delicacy, and showing smart, well-educated, and articulate characters on both sides of an issue that all too often brings folks on both sides of it to the lowest common denominator. Indeed, I was reminded of one of my favorite episodes of the late, lamented, Everwood. Nice work on that one, at least.