Who doesn’t love a good, old-fashioned showdown? Today we pit Private Practice against Grey’s Anatomy in an epic Battle of the Medical Soap Operas Sprung from Shonda Rhimes’ Dark and Twisty Mind. I’ll compare three aspects of the shows. Your votes will decide which one is better.

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This week’s episode of Grey’s saw the return of both Meredith and Izzie. Not that Meredith actually went anywhere, but her return to work. Where the show’s namesake had her quasi-absence explained away by a medical procedure, Izzie just kind of disappeared. I don’t care how you, me, or Izzie tries to spin things … her leaving her friends and her husband with no contact was just a plain crappy thing to do.

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(Season 2, Episodes 1-4)

Lots of big cases, and lots of questionable ethical, and legal, maneuvering. I’m amazed that Bobby (Dylan McDermott) hasn’t gotten his ticket pulled yet, or at least been suspended. His firm seems bent on breaking the law, a pretty broad step away from the traditional bending that most law firms on TV practice. I’m told that Alan Shore (James Spader) comes in and does the dirty, but, honestly, I can’t imagine how much worse he can do than what these people execute on a daily basis. I guess I’ll just have to be proven wrong in the seasons to come. Read the rest of this entry »

(Season 2, Episode 12 – “Chapter Nineteen: Lovers’ Leaps”)

This episode set things up nicely to move forward with the lovely ladies. Too bad there’s only one episode left! The season finale airs next week, and I’m preparing myself to be left hanging in limbo for the rest of my life. Maybe a miracle will happen, and we’ll get another season of Lipstick Jungle.

I’ll map things out via my favorite scenes:

Nico and Griffin in the elevator. When last we left Nico, she was shooting hormones with the hopes of having a baby solo. She’s still thinking along those lines, but things are progressing sweetly with Griffin. After he impulsively hires an online editor for Bonfire without first discussing it with Nico, she says he should have played hard to get. “Not my style,” says Griffin. “When I know what I want, I go for it.” Then he moves in for the smooch and plants one on Nico, right there in the elevator. You know, this stuff never happened to me when I worked in the corporate world. When Griffin looks at Nico, it just makes me woozy.

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(Season 2, Episode 11 – “Indecent Exposure”)

I’m seriously ready to start one of those lame write-in campaigns to save Lipstick Jungle. I say lame, because do they ever really work? Hey, if it didn’t work with Moonlight, I’ve got serious doubts it would work with Lipstick Jungle.

Anyway, the show continues to get better and better, even in the Friday Night Death Slot. They ramped up the sex factor by having Victory get naked for an advertising campaign, and here’s the thing: She was all for the idea, until she realized it was HER who would be getting naked, then she freaked out.

I’ve said before that Victory seems like the most normal person on the show, and tonight she proved that once again. First of all, she has a kick-ass body, but she’s still scared shitless about having to get naked. I think most women would identify with that. No matter what we look like, it’s never good enough.

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Last week’s episode of Lipstick Jungle, appropriately, had a Thanksgiving theme, and Nico ended up having more to be thankful for than she anticipated.

I predicted things were headed that way a few weeks ago, and sure enough, I was right (you go, Jane). When Megan dropped the baby with Nico and Kirby, I figured she probably wouldn’t come back.

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(Season 2, Episode 4)

“It must be cold there in your shadow.” – Kirby to Nico, on Nico’s slacker brother, George

One thing I love about Lipstick Jungle is that the women are curvy. Ok, maybe not Kim Raver, who’s stick-thin, but Brooke Shields and Lindsay Price both look fairly realistic, compared to other women on TV. I like that.

We continue to learn a little more about the women, like Nico’s childhood in Queens and her working-class family. Nice to see Dan Hedaya playing her dad. I think of him as the dad on 1995’s Clueless, but he’s been working steadily through the years.

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