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Tonight!! FX's First New NIP/TUCK Since 2005!!
SPOILER ALERT !!
I am – Hercules!!
Take that spoiler warning seriously!
Moriarty loves this show and could tell you if the show can hope to top its “carver” storyline and whatnot. I’m more of a “Rescue Me” guy, but know I’ll get bitched at if I don’t remind everybody that a new season with those wacky plastic surgeons is about to commence, so …
The fetus is deformed! The kid discovers Scientology! J.R. Ewing, or a rich guy who looks just like him, is thinking about buying the firm! And they’re working in more overtly gay stuff for the two male leads this year!
The New York Times says:
… Soap operas and “Nip/Tuck” are like Silly Putty, or, for that matter, the cosmetic filler Restylane. No matter how far and distortedly the characters are stretched, they always return to their original form. … “Nip/Tuck” too often turns into “General Hospital” with liposuction instead of life support, and breast implants in lieu of amnesia and evil twins. The show looks sultry and cool and the music is wittily chosen, but the dialogue sometimes lurches into the kind of language heard in Port Charles or Pine Valley. “ I don’t want your pity,” Sean snarls when Christian tries to console him over his baby news. “You should be happy,” he adds sarcastically. “After all, you’ve got the perfect son.” …
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer says:
… does the intimate knowledge of two odious characters like Dr. Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh) and Dr. Christian Troy (Julian McMahon) make them more attractive as a show goes on, or less?
Four seasons into "Nip/Tuck" we have to wonder, especially after McNamara/Troy's tedious detour into Carverville last year. "Nip/Tuck" is aiming for profundity again, as far as that goes. At one point the series catch phrase said something about being more than skin deep, but I'm not sure the scalpel even scratches the fatty layer anymore. Understand that "Nip/Tuck" was never about adventurous quality or exploring new frontiers in emotional depth. It's just the handsomest, indecently pleasurable soap opera television can crank out, and a reliable supplier of muscular butt shots. …
The Boston Herald says:
How could ‘‘Nip/Tuck” recover from that botched season finale from December? The series wrapped its slasher mystery with an over-the-top resolution, even considering the show’s preposterous standards.… If their melodrama isn’t always gripping, ‘‘Nip/Tuck” rushes in an array of guest stars as distractions. …
Variety says:
… it's reassuring to see the program refocused and mostly back on track as it opens its fourth season, which finds new torments with which to plague its central trio, as well as a plethora of showy guest stars in deliciously perverse roles. … The dialogue remains biting as well, such as Christian's line to a surgery-seeking fling, "No pro bono for boning a pro." Yet the show also takes chances, and not always successfully. …
TV Guide says:
… so graphically and proudly filthy, I feel like washing my eyes and ears out with soap. … Frankly, it's off-putting. But it's too easy to condemn this provocative psychodrama for its cheap-shock tendencies. … Nip/Tuck isn't perfect. And embraceable? No. But if you can get past its icky-tacky surface, this can still be one of TV's most daring, uncompromising hours.
10 p.m. Tuesday. F/X.
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The Carver storyline ended with a whimper, but if they are getting back to stories like the first and second season, it can recapture some of that weird magic that was so much fun to watch.
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good line. i wonder how long they were figuring a way to use that one. and p.s.? first. suck it bitches.
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Then why didn't you mention the season finale last week? I'm not complaining though, the last two episodes were horseshit. And if the show is going where I think it may, next season could very well be its last. God, I wish John (Lou) Scurti had finished out the season as writer, because his episode "Twilight" was by far one of the season's, if not the series best. Maybe with him in control the show wouldn't have jumped the shark.
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and even though I'm 100% straight, I'd totally do Famke Jansenn's character. Is that so wrong? IT'S FAMKE DAMMIT!!!
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The 1st season was fun. The 2nd season was too over the top but still fun. The 3rd season with the Carver was crap, and even the actors know it. But I think the best part of season 4 will be when it ends, and the Shield returns!!!
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CAN'T WAIT FOR TONIGHT.....
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I would love to see this show get back to the heights of season 2. Season 3 had good episodes thrown in here and there, and the shocks were crazy, but the end wasn't satisfying, especially since FX revealed the Carver's identity and his accomplice online the same day the finale was set to air.
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The lead character fucking a fat bitch doggystyle and making her wear a bag over her head?
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Rescue Me has been circling the toilet too. Here's hoping both will recover.
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That the actors on Nip/Tuck were not happy with S3 either and that they are glad it's back on track. I don't think that The Carver was supposed to be a big storyline until the fans went ape shit over it. It looks like Ryan Murphy supplied the demand but got stuck and wrote the easiest most cliched way out with it's resolution. Anyhow I am a fan of his since "Popular" and I know he can make the show great again.
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Sep 05, 2006 10:20:53 AM CDT
hey i ran into the fat girl that dr troy did with ...
by jeanluc dickhard
the one that he did with the bag over her head.... she was in a Stew Leonard's in westchester and i looked in her basket and she had crabcakes, onions and a clam chowder soup 2 milks this bread with baked cheese .... and i was laughing cause they didnt have paper bags at the registers ...
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...at the harshness for Rescue Me. Granted, this season wasn't as good as last season, but that's like saying the sex you had with the supermodel last night wasn't as good as the sex you had with two supermodels last year. Resuce Me rushed through some plot points that should've been introduced earlier and given more breathing room (Tommy's coming to grips with his brother's death, Franco losing Keela, Lou's nun love and the Chief's heart attack), but overall this season was still pretty damned good television. Nip/Tuck just got annoying last season with all the heavy handed and predictable Carver crap. I'll still watch it this season based on the strength of the first two, though. Even if it's a disappointment, I'll have The Shield to cleanse my pallette with. It's all good. Now if only they'd bring back Starved.
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"Starved" was terrible. I agree with your points regarding "Rescue Me". I think if Tommy really went through all of those events (plot points) in the short amount of time that he did, I think he would have either been tossed into a psycho-ward or he would have done himself in. But the show has really started to come into its own...and it has some of the best character moments on TV right now. -- As for "Nip/Tuck", I'm definitely looking forward to its return tonight. I do think that Season 3 was a little disappointing...but I blame that on the tepid resolution of the "Carver" plotline. I'm hoping this season is a return to Season 1-2 form with a little more believability.
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When it comes to acting with HOT babes, does anyone else think that Julian McMahon is sometimes the luckiest guy in the world?!
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McMahon is a lucky bastard. Kelly Carlson is hot from the front, to bad her ass is kinda flat. But she is still gorgeous.
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Nip/Tuck might have lost some of its steam last season, but it was far from bad and better than almost anything else on TV. So I'm eager to see the new season and find out if Tom Cruise gets out of Matt's closet.
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I swear that line was actually included in an episode. I swore I wasn't going to watch the show again after the season 3 closer, but now....maybe I'll take that back.
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...MNG. ;) I took a while to warm up to "Starved," actually. My younger brother recommended it and, the next time I saw him (after watching one episode), I actually smacked him. But he explained the way he saw it and I developed a whole new appreciation for it: "It's like Seinfeld, but everyone has eating disorders...and Elaine's bisexual." After that, I tuned in pretty regularly and damned if I couldn't see just that dynamic at work. I would never rank it among the greatest shows or even the greatest comedies of all time (Rescue Me, as of now -- even with Season 3's shortcomings -- is my "Greatest Show of All Time"), it was good, sick fun to watch when there was nothing else good stored ont he DVR.
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I don't watch much TV but my friends got me hooked into the over the top "carver" storyline last year. I actually thought the ending was hilariously clever, dark, and sick. The preview of this upcoming season looks interesting, but nothing stood out to me that will top last season. Too early to tell...
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It really did have some damn good episodes, but it really got stupid a couple of times: 1) The Momma Boone episode was great, except for the dream sequence at the beginning ... CHEAP. 2) The morgue guy pulling a Mary Jane's Last Dance with his Frankensister 3) The Kit character (even though she was hot as fuck), and her stupid-ass interrogations and that stupid threesome w/Christian and Kimber, 4) Sean helping out the FBI, 5) The Carver resolution and the plot-holes that followed. But what was good? 1) The surgeries, as always: Momma Boone, the ape, the plane crash, the Alzheimers episode... 2) Matt shaving his head and questioning his sexuality, 3) The tranny/ gangbanger simultaneous beat-down, 4) Crazy Nazi Family, 5)The sewn seeds of the baby-with-deformity plotline... Anyway, I could go on and on. Individual episodes were stellar, but the Carver plotline got stupid, the Kit character was worthless and the resolution was necessary but shittily handled. Look, it had to be Quintin. We all knew that. Murphy wrote himself into a corner and played up the mystery too much. But the no-dick, twin-incestuous sister thing was fucking Re-Todd-Ed.
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Tonight's ep was GREAT. Lots of new arcs. Some (friction between Sean and his wife) are old hat, but being handled in a truly different way. The baby deformity angle fits in perfectly with the themes of the show, and is truly unique. The partners selling the practice is a good way to mix that place up a bit. And the single-episode subplots? As long as they stay fresh (big fake balls, voice lifts) the show will stay great.
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I didn't get into this show until S2, but once I started watching, i couldn't stop. This is easily one of the best shows on TV and FX with its consistent quality of shows (making up for what it lacks in quantity) like THE SHIELD and RESCUE ME make this the station to beat. A billion episodes of AMERICAN WANKERS...ahem... IDOL can't hold a candle to one second of the stuff that's on FX... with maybe the exception of THIEF. I just thought that was kinda dull. As far as the season premiere of NIP/TUCK is concerned, I'm glad that it's turning away from the thriller misfire of last season (although there was some really great stuff last season that fell in between, like the ep where Christian meets his birth mother, and the ep where Christian bangs the homely chick with the paper bag over her head... that was one of the greatest final scenes of that show). Although S3 lacked consistency, it was still better than 95% of the shite out there. And S4 looks VERY VERY FUCKING COOL. And I for one am glad to see the acknowledgement that the real couple with real trust and intimacy is Christian and Sean.
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this season. It was great seeing Shields getting it from behind.
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No one is leaving the show though. She leaves for a few episodes in between. And I always thought Nip/Tuck was pretty much a love story between to straight dudes. Funny how they confirmed it last night.
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Sep 06, 2006 7:40:28 PM CDT
"Why is there a statue of a giant cock in the corner ?"
by twitchinmonkey
This show is good, dumb, sleazy fun. Desperate Housewives tries to be this kind of show and fails miserably. Sure, it's not on the same level as The Shield and Rescue Me, but very entertaining none the less.
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