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Let's just get this out there- "Nip/Tuck" continues
to be the kinkiest show on basic cable. Dr. Christian Troy
(Julian McMahon) and Dr. Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh) are
plastic surgeons, while trying to make patients beautiful,
either delve into or expose themselves to some pretty ugly,
deviant behavior. While all that is fun and often engrossing,
I wish the writers liposuctioned some of the stories in
season three that started out promising, but left some unsightly
scars. ***
Among the highlights of this season were Julia (Joely
Richardson) opening up a surgical recovery spa, trying to
achieve her own success after years of raising the kids
while Sean cuts away at flesh. She successfully marketed
a skincare product, with the help of plastic surgery Royal
Highness, Joan Rivers. Just don't ask about the secret ingredient.
Matt (Julia/Christian/Sean's son from love-triangle issues)
got a girlfriend who's a white supremacist. However, that
storyline did leave an unpleasant mark the more it developed.
***
The doozy storyline of the season was the Carver, a
masked-figure who went around disfiguring women by slashing
them ear-to-ear. It turned into an intriguing whodunit in
which you suspect everybody. The show worked you so you
got excited about the season finale to finally reveal the
Carver. I won't tell you who it turned out to be, but I
will say that the answer is one of the biggest television
disappointments that I've had in years. Does making an answer
too obvious make it less obvious? Any boob tube philosophers
out there that can answer my question? ***
The doctors open each initial patient session with the
catchphrase, "Tell us what you don't like about yourself."
Often, these characters exploit the answers to that question
for profit and sexual trysts. They do, albeit rare, show
compassion for their clients and each other. The thing about
"Nip/Tuck" really is that if you can look past the flaws,
whether visually or story-wise, you can find real beauty.
Sometimes you've just got to cut deeper.
Image & Sound:
The images are sharp in the 1:78:1 ratio of this set.
There is 15 episodes on 6 discs. This is disappointingly
not in stereo surround-sound.
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