*Note: this article may contain some spoilers for the show!*

I tend to be late in the game when it comes to watching shows on Netflix. For instance, I found Once Upon a Time the summer before season four aired, and I caught up with the CW’s Arrow literally minutes before the season two finale aired live. Needless to say, my reviews are often late as well.

Recently, due to a withdrawal from Grey’s Anatomy, I ventured into the land of Private Practice, the spin-off that focuses on Addison Forbes Montgomery, the bad-ass double-board certified neonatal surgeon and OB/GYN. Us Grey’s fans get a taste of Private Practice before Shonda even made the show a thing when Addie went to LA to see if her best friend from college and fertility specialist, Naomi, could help her have a baby.

The 6-season-long series takes viewers on an emotional roller coaster, because that’s what Shondaland is. We go through the highs and lows of the doctors at Oceanside Health and Wellness Group as they experience them, from deaths of coworkers to really understanding why Amelia got the nickname “Hurricane Amelia” to finding true love and having babies. And, of course, the stress of medicine and surgery. Yes, I know that Oceanside isn’t a hospital, but it’s a spin-off of Grey’s, did you really think that there wouldn’t be any surgery?

I was very emotionally invested in this show, and despite mixed reviews from a friend, I pursued it all the way to its extremely anticlimactic end. The first season or two is absolutely phenomenal, but when coworkers start having relationships with one another, things just get messy and it’s like you’re back in high school all over again. So much drama, so little medicine, it just got really annoying really quickly. By season five, I was so sick of Sam and Addison’s relationship that I was ready to just call it quits. By season six, however, all I wanted to do was just finish the show so I could say I did it. The plot-lines were so intertwined and confusing, I started to lose serious interest. Plus, the last episode…it was just so uninteresting to me that I was so upset when it was over because it lacked the resolutions that I wanted. Shonda tried to resolve so many things – Addison adopting her son, Sam and Naomi reconciling, a Violet writing her last book, which, by the way, has a horrible title. Private Practice? Naming the book after the show? Really Shonda?

What I did like about the show, however, was that there were some plot-lines that really gripped me and dragged me in, mainly Amelia’s. We knew that Amelia had a past with drugs, that was openly stated in Grey’s. But in Private Practice, they made her relapse, which was a dark and intense plot that had me desperate for more episodes.

Another thing to look forward to was the overlaps with Grey’s Anatomy. Last I knew, they followed it up to the plane crash, and if there were any other references after it, I missed them.

Overall, though, Private Practice wasn’t that bad of a show. Sure, I had mixed emotions about it, but that’s just my opinion. Maybe you’ll have other opinions.

Might I just add – the doctors starring in Private Practice? They’re not private at all.