RIP Desperate Housewives and Private Practice

I’m done.  With both of them.  Desperate Housewives and Private Practice.  Two staple shows for me are getting marked off the list.  It’s not that they’ve done anything wrong really.

The DH five year jump didn’t really hurt them but the storylines they’ve chosen in that jump has.  It’s all too close to real life now. I used to like it so much because it was so fantastical.  It was ridiculous the way people acted and reacted and what happened to them would NEVER happened to one set of people.  But now? It’s just all too close to home and I don’t get taken up with the storylines anymore.  Now they’re just broken people trying to handle it like the rest of us.  Yes, it works in some shows but not what I watched DH for.

As for Private Practice, I’m a huge Shonda Rhimes fan.  I mean, really, she gave me my Grey’s baby.  I had high hopes for Private Practice.  I wanted to like all these doctors and their idiosyncracies and issues and patients.  But I find I just don’t care. I don’t care if Sam and Della are sleeping together.  I don’t care that Addison got a date with SWAT guy and I REALLY don’t care that the ped is sleeping with the hospital doctor.  I do care a bit about Dell.  I’m glad he’s back.  But it’s just not enough to keep me watching.

So, sorry, ABC, I’m tuning out.  RIP.