The Practice focused on the meijubar.net law firm of Robert Donnell and Associates (later becoming Donnell, Young, Dole, & Frutt, and ultimately Young, Frutt, & Berluti). Plots typically featured the firm's involvement in various high-profile criminal and civil cases that often mirrored current events at the time of the episodes' initial broadcast. Conflict between legal ethics and personal morality was a recurring theme.
罗斯（大卫·休默 David Schwimmer 饰）、瑞秋（詹妮弗·安妮斯顿 Jennifer Aniston 饰）和女儿住在一起，却没有恋爱关系，最终瑞秋领着女儿搬回乔伊（马特·理勃兰 Matt LeBlanc 饰）那里，渐渐也对乔伊产生了感觉。钱德勒（马修·派瑞 Matthew Perry 饰）和摩妮卡（柯特妮·考克斯 Courteney Cox 饰）要一个孩子，但总是失败，经过检查发现都有生理问题，决定领养一个。 菲比（莉莎·库卓 Lisa Kudrow 饰）跟迈克约会，但总要面对迈克不肯结婚的问题。乔伊带着Charlie去巴巴多斯岛和罗斯一起度假。但由于两人没有共同点最终分手，很快乔伊得知瑞秋对自己有好感，Charlie认定自己仍然爱着罗斯，乔伊看到了罗斯和Charlie两人的热吻，于是改变了主意来到了瑞秋房间，两人亲吻起来......
During the summer, Pacey and Audrey rocked Los Angeles and spent time with her next door neighbors, the Osbournes, and Jack Osbourne even tags along with them to interview at Worthington. Jen spent her time in New York and got ecstatic to learn her parents are separating. Jack got dumped by Eric, but got over it. Joey spent her summer in Capeside doing a lot of reading, working and romancing. On their first week back at Boston Bay College, Jen is shocked to run into find that Grams Ryan has decided to go back to school. At Worthington, Joey experiences nothing but bad luck when she decides to enroll in an intermediate writing class taught by the liberal, but manipulative and cynical, Professor Greg Heston who does not hesitate to ridicule and embarrass Joey in front of the class with her lack of knowledge of the current book topic. Pacey and Jack move out of Grams' house and Pacey tries to get the perfect apartment, owned by a feisty, punk rock British woman, named Emma Jones, who works as a waitress in the local bar Hell's Kitchen. Also, Dawson is working on a new movie, a horror film titled "Wicked Dead" with him as the assistant director and the hack Todd Carr as director. When he finally gets together with Joey, he is the only one to have remembered her 20th birthday.
Aired on HBO from 3 March 2002 to 2 June 2002
