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Spotlight on Fandoms: Nip/Tuck
Warning: this show is extremely graphic, both sexually (gods bless Julian McMahon and his willingness to drop trou) and surgically (the fact that it's all prosthetics and liver doesn't stop you from squirming during the OR scenes). The Parents Television Council hates this show. They really aren't too fond of foursomes and incestuous necrophilia. No, really. In addition, this recap makes numerous references to some pretty disturbing plotlines. As if the incestuous necrophilia isn't disturbing enough on its own.
General Series Summary | Characters | Season Overviews | Show Status | Video Clips | Why You Should Watch
General Series Summary
Nip/Tuck is "a disturbingly perfect drama." The show, called by creator Ryan Murphy "a love story between two heterosexual men," revolves around the lives of two friends and partners in the plastic surgery business in Miami. Christian Troy is an arrogant hedonist with questionable ethics, who lives a decadent lifestyle of sex, sex, and more sex. Sean McNamara is the devoted family man, married to Julia, whom Christian once (and still) had feelings for, but his life is hardly perfect once you take a closer look. Each episode cuts as deeply into the lives of its characters as it does into the faces and bodies of the patients who seek cosmetic surgery. Some of the episodes are very anvilicious: for example, in one episode Christian and Sean attempt to separate conjoined twins while they are in the process of dissolving their partnership. The twins die, and they realize they are a team and need to stay together. The audience dodges anvils.
The medical cases on the show are all based on real life events, according to Ryan Murphy, though they tend to be sensationalized in the name of drama. They've included a man getting breast implants, plastic surgery addiction, an obese woman who needs to be surgically removed from her couch, a face transplant, reversing female genital mutilation, and male-to-female sex reassignment.
Characters
Christian Troy (Julian McMahon): Christian was raised by foster parents after his biological mother gave him up because he was the result of rape. His foster father sexually abused him, and that left its mark on Christian. He seems incapable of forming real emotional attachments with the many many women he sleeps with, though he clearly has feelings for Julia McNamara. Christian wants the best of everything –- the hottest women, the flashiest cars, the most expensive clothes. On the surface, Christian is the "bad boy" of the two partners, but he has a soft spot for children and those truly in need. He is extremely vain and not above manipulating women into getting plastic surgery by taking advantage of their insecurities and pointing out their imperfections.
Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh): Sean at first seems to be the "good" partner. He is married with two children, Matt, his high school aged son, and Annie, his much younger daughter. Sean considers himself the responsible and more talented of the two, but that isn't always the case. He has been going through a long midlife crisis, coasting through his troubled marriage and obvious to the problems building in his family. He sometimes envies Christian's wilder lifestyle, though he doesn't hesitate to take the moral superiority stance and point out Christian's wrongdoings, despite the fact that he has had multiple affairs and done other questionable things through the course of the show.
Julia McNamara (Joely Richardson): Julia went to school with Sean and Christian, dating Christian once before forming a more lasting relationship with Sean, the "safer" choice. When she became pregnant, she gave up on school so she could marry Sean and raise their child. After several years as a bored housewife she began longing for more, wondering what she missed out on by not hooking up with Christian and also trying to go back to school. Her relationship with Sean crumbles, they get back together, it crumbles again, they get back together, lather, rinse, repeat. Eventually, due to Joely needing time to be with her real life daughter, who was facing medical problems, Julia packed up the kids and moved to New York toward the end of season four. She will be back for season five for 15 episodes.
Matt McNamara (John Hensley): Matt is Sean's and Julia's oldest child -- except, well, "shocking" his biological father is Christian (I say "shockingly" because the audience had that figured out from episode one, whereas Ryan Murphy thought it would be a huge surprise), the result of a one night stand when Julia panicked about settling down with Sean and turned to Christian briefly. Matt's high school life is anything but normal as he struggles to fit in and deal with a girlfriend who turns out to be a lesbian. He is also responsible for a tragic accident and hides it from his family. The second season saw him starting a relationship with a much older woman (sorta), which ended up emotionally scarring him. He later became involved with a neo-Nazi girl and then porn star turned Scientologist Kimber (see below).
Annie McNamara (Kelsey Lynn Batelaan): Annie is Sean and Julia's adolescent daughter. She's frequently MIA, but a flashforward episode set in 2026 shows her as a very messed up individual, due to all the drama in her family's lives.
Liz Cruz (Roma Maffia): Liz is the anesthesiologist for McNamara/Troy. She is a lesbian and damned proud of it. She is more grounded than her co-workers and often serves as the moral compass of the show and does not hesitate to tell Christian or Sean (especially Christian) when they are acting like idiots. She and Christian often trade vicious insults but underneath it they do care about each other. Liz does not often approve of vanity surgeries that some people come to McNamara/Troy to get, but she is very compassionate and respectful to patients who are trying to correct deformities and lead normal lives. Liz does have her own beauty issues, however, as she thinks she is not attractive.
Nurse Linda (Linda Klein): Nurse Linda is actually a real nurse and is also the medical consultant on the show. She's frequently in the background, rolling her eyes at the goings-on in the clinic.
Grace Santiago (Valerie Cruz): Hired to screen patients before surgery, Grace of course became embroiled in the personal lives of both Sean and Christian. She was scornful of Christian's lifestyle, but she nonetheless slept with him –- more than once. She mysteriously disappeared between seasons one and two, and her absence was never really explained.
Kimber Henry (Kelly Carlson): Kimber was a self-absorbed model and easy prey for Christian's seduction -- both sexually and professionally. He convinced her she needed plastic surgery to be perfect then dumped her after the operations. Unknown to Christian she vandalized his cars and boat until he rekindled their relationship. Christian was unable to stay true to one woman, however, and arranged a trade with rival plastic surgeon Merril Bobolit -- a car for Kimber. In retaliation Kimber persuaded Christian to let her tie him to the bed, then threatened him with a knife. She left him mostly unscathed and after an brief engagement to Bobolit, she disappeared for some time, reappearing as a porn star with a coke habit. Her porn career was very successful and she moved up to producing movies. She had a brief affair with Sean which ended when Sean caught her sleeping with Christian (again). She and Christian were going to be married, but she was kidnapped and mutilated by The Carver. She left Christian to find herself and returned as a Scientologist, though she struggles with some of the more ridiculous beliefs. Currently she's knocked up with Matt's child.
Gina Russo (Jessalyn Gilsig): Another of Christian's conquests, Gina met Christian when he attended a sexaholics meeting. He lured her to bed then sent her packing. Gina returned several weeks later to inform Christian she was pregnant, despite using protection during their encounter. Deeply desiring a child of his own, Christian agreed to help Gina raise the child. However, when Wilbur was born it was clear he was not Christian's son, as he was black. Christian remained supportive of Gina and Wilbur, however, still considering him his son. Gina shamelessly used Wilbur to manipulate Christian, and when her tactics began to wear thin, she tried to convince him to have another child together. When Christian refused, Gina turned to fellow sexaholics to impregnate her. This prompted Christian to sue for custody of Wilbur. Gina brought in Wilbur's actual father to help her, but upon seeing the lifestyles of both Gina and Christian, Wilbur's father sought custody for himself and won, devastating both Gina and Christian. A few months later Gina told Christian she was HIV+ (giving him his own AIDS scare) and could not afford medication. Christian began covering her medical expenses. In season four, Wilbur's biological father dies, and Wilbur is returned to Christian. Gina fights him for custody, then realizes she really doesn't want a child and lets Christian keep him.
Ava Moore (Famke Janssen): Ava appears in season two as a "life coach" who learns everyone's secrets (including Matt's paternity), and uses them to get what she wants. She starts up a relationship with Matt, which has his parents (all three of them) quite upset. She also has a secret of her own, which made the audience go "Buh?" Seriously. Spoiler: she's a man.
Adrian Moore (Seth Gabel): Adrian is Ava's rebellious teenage son. She's also sleeping with him.
Quentin Costa (Bruno Campos): Dr. Costa is a skilled plastic surgeon who spent a great deal of time in Africa fixing the faces of children mutilated in conflicts. He returned to the United States and was practicing in Atlanta when Christian called him in to operate on Sean's face after the Carver attacked him. At the time, Christian was unable to operate due to his pending HIV test. Quentin is bisexual has similar tastes to Christian with regards to after hours entertainment. He ends up becoming a partner in the practice in season three, filling in for Christian while he recovers from his own attack by the Carver. He has an affair with Julia and ends up getting kicked out of the practice after Sean catches him having sex with a male patient.
The Carver: The Carver is a serial killer/rapist whose motto is "beauty is a curse on the world." He targets models and other beautiful people, slashes their faces, and rapes them. After Sean performs corrective surgery on one of his victims, he slashes Sean's face and warns him not to fix any of his masterpieces. Sean does not stop, and at the end of season two, Christian is attacked and raped by the Carver. It was supposed to be a big surprise as to who the Carver was (revealed in the last episode of season three), but, well, it wasn't. Even if it wasn't, FX put up spoilerific promo photos before the finale aired. Oops. Spoiler: it's Quentin.
Kit McGraw (Rhona Mitra): In season three, Kit McGraw appears as a British detective investigating the Carver attacks. Of course she ends up sleeping with Christian. And Kimber. At the same time.
Michelle Landau (Sanaa Lathan): Michelle Landau is a businesswoman who buys McNamara/Troy at the beginning of season four. She becomes involved with Christian, despite being married, and hides a secret -- she's part of an organ harvesting operation. She and Christian get engaged, but when he finds out her secret, he leaves her.
The show is a magnet for guest stars, including Vanessa Redgrave, Alec Baldwin, Joan Rivers (as herself), Anne Heche, Larry Hagman, Brooke Shields, Jacqueline Bisset, Richard Chamberlain, Mario Lopez, Melissa Gilbert, Rosie O'Donnell, Alannis Morrisette, and Catherine Deneuve. In season five, Portia de Rossi and Oliver Platt will guest star, and rumor has it Nicole Kidman may appear.
Season Overviews
Season One: The show starts with Christian making a deal to change the face of a man desperate to change his identity due to be caught with "the boss's girl," a act that will come back to haunt Christian and Sean by the end of the season. Sean's marriage to Julia is beginning to crumble as she looks to Christian for support, leaving Christian torn between his feelings for her and his loyalty to Sean. Matt struggles with his own body image and his relationship with his girlfriend and his girlfriend's girlfriend. Determined to do something with her life other than be a housewife, Julia goes back to school, then learns she is pregnant again. Christian is forced to examine his life as several of his actions –- questionable decisions about operations and his treatment of women included –- start to have serious repercussions on himself and those around him.
Season Two: Though he is not the father of Gina's child, Christian is still determined to raise him as his own until Wilbur's real father challenges him and Gina for custody. The truth of Matt's paternity rips everyone's relationships apart. Sean starts to repair the mutilated faces of victims of "the Carver," a serial rapist, bringing the Carver's attention to McNamara/Troy. Meanwhile, Ava, a "life coach," begins a relationship with Matt, meddling with the lives of those around him. Things come to a head when Sean attempts to set a trap for the Carver.
Season Three: Christian deals with the after effects of the Carver's attack. The Carver steps up his attacks, leading suspicion to fall on Christian, and later Liz. Quentin is hired by the practice to help out. Matt starts to question his sexuality and turns violent. Julia, Gina, and Liz go into business together and open a spa. Christian finally meets his birth mother and becomes engaged to Kimber. When the marriage doesn't happen, he goes to a very dark place. Sean contemplates joining the federal witness protection program to be with a woman he's fallen for. Julia finds out she's pregnant with Sean's baby, and the Carver's identity is finally revealed.
Season Four: Sean and Christian sell the practice to give them more personal time. Sean and Julia find out their child will be born with deformed hands. Kimber pulls Matt into Scientology and becomes involved with him. Christian has a sexual identity crisis and becomes involved with Michelle Landau, his new boss. An organ harvesting ring is striking Miami, and Liz is a victim. Sean has an affair with his newborn son's nanny, and when they hire a new male nanny, Julia falls for him. Sean and Julia fight over doing surgery on baby Conor's hands, and she leaves him and takes Annie and Conor to New York. At the end of the season, Sean moves to Hollywood to open a practice. Christian dumps Michelle and joins him, and that is where season five will take place.
Show Status
Season Five is currently in production and set to begin on October 23. 22 episodes have been ordered for this season -- the most ever for this show. New episodes will air Tuesday nights on FX, and right now reruns are airing on Saturday nights between 11:00 EST and 1:00 EST.
Seasons One, Two, and Three are available on DVD. Season Four will be released September 4.
Nip/Tuck has been nominated for and won numerous makeup and prosthetic Emmy awards, and won an Golden Globe for "Best Drama," as well as nominations for Julian and Joely for Best Actor and Actress.
Video Clips
(Okay, I didn't intend to make the majority of the clips about Christian. It's hard to find non-music video non-Christian vids on YouTube! Really!)
Christian tells Sean about his childhood abuse (warning: very disturbing content)
Christian kicks Gina out of bed (warning: NSFW -- brief nudity and language)
The season two finale. It made me flail like a flailing thing that flails. A lot.
The Carver taunts the audience
Julia and Quentin discuss business and pleasure
Sean and Christian treat victims of the Carver (warning: very disturbing content and spoilerific)
Liz and Linda discover Christian on YouTube (warning: TOTALLY not safe for work -- sex and nudity)
Christian has a verrrry gay dream
Christian tells Sean about his dream
Christian confronts Kimber about her relationship with Matt (warning: language)
Christian gets Wilbur back
Why You Should Watch
This show is not for the faint of heart. The surgeries can be graphic, and the sex is equally raw. But the storylines and the acting are magnificent. The dialogue is fast and witty, and the scenes take the audience to incredible emotional highs and lows. Just watch and see for yourself, and hide your eyes during the surgeries if necessary. To be honest, some of the plotlines totally stretch believability, and the quality of the third and fourth seasons suffered compared to the first two, but I have high hopes for the fifth.
Plus? Did I mention naked Julian?
General Series Summary | Characters | Season Overviews | Show Status | Video Clips | Why You Should Watch
General Series Summary
Nip/Tuck is "a disturbingly perfect drama." The show, called by creator Ryan Murphy "a love story between two heterosexual men," revolves around the lives of two friends and partners in the plastic surgery business in Miami. Christian Troy is an arrogant hedonist with questionable ethics, who lives a decadent lifestyle of sex, sex, and more sex. Sean McNamara is the devoted family man, married to Julia, whom Christian once (and still) had feelings for, but his life is hardly perfect once you take a closer look. Each episode cuts as deeply into the lives of its characters as it does into the faces and bodies of the patients who seek cosmetic surgery. Some of the episodes are very anvilicious: for example, in one episode Christian and Sean attempt to separate conjoined twins while they are in the process of dissolving their partnership. The twins die, and they realize they are a team and need to stay together. The audience dodges anvils.
The medical cases on the show are all based on real life events, according to Ryan Murphy, though they tend to be sensationalized in the name of drama. They've included a man getting breast implants, plastic surgery addiction, an obese woman who needs to be surgically removed from her couch, a face transplant, reversing female genital mutilation, and male-to-female sex reassignment.
Characters
Christian Troy (Julian McMahon): Christian was raised by foster parents after his biological mother gave him up because he was the result of rape. His foster father sexually abused him, and that left its mark on Christian. He seems incapable of forming real emotional attachments with the many many women he sleeps with, though he clearly has feelings for Julia McNamara. Christian wants the best of everything –- the hottest women, the flashiest cars, the most expensive clothes. On the surface, Christian is the "bad boy" of the two partners, but he has a soft spot for children and those truly in need. He is extremely vain and not above manipulating women into getting plastic surgery by taking advantage of their insecurities and pointing out their imperfections.
Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh): Sean at first seems to be the "good" partner. He is married with two children, Matt, his high school aged son, and Annie, his much younger daughter. Sean considers himself the responsible and more talented of the two, but that isn't always the case. He has been going through a long midlife crisis, coasting through his troubled marriage and obvious to the problems building in his family. He sometimes envies Christian's wilder lifestyle, though he doesn't hesitate to take the moral superiority stance and point out Christian's wrongdoings, despite the fact that he has had multiple affairs and done other questionable things through the course of the show.
Julia McNamara (Joely Richardson): Julia went to school with Sean and Christian, dating Christian once before forming a more lasting relationship with Sean, the "safer" choice. When she became pregnant, she gave up on school so she could marry Sean and raise their child. After several years as a bored housewife she began longing for more, wondering what she missed out on by not hooking up with Christian and also trying to go back to school. Her relationship with Sean crumbles, they get back together, it crumbles again, they get back together, lather, rinse, repeat. Eventually, due to Joely needing time to be with her real life daughter, who was facing medical problems, Julia packed up the kids and moved to New York toward the end of season four. She will be back for season five for 15 episodes.
Matt McNamara (John Hensley): Matt is Sean's and Julia's oldest child -- except, well, "shocking" his biological father is Christian (I say "shockingly" because the audience had that figured out from episode one, whereas Ryan Murphy thought it would be a huge surprise), the result of a one night stand when Julia panicked about settling down with Sean and turned to Christian briefly. Matt's high school life is anything but normal as he struggles to fit in and deal with a girlfriend who turns out to be a lesbian. He is also responsible for a tragic accident and hides it from his family. The second season saw him starting a relationship with a much older woman (sorta), which ended up emotionally scarring him. He later became involved with a neo-Nazi girl and then porn star turned Scientologist Kimber (see below).
Annie McNamara (Kelsey Lynn Batelaan): Annie is Sean and Julia's adolescent daughter. She's frequently MIA, but a flashforward episode set in 2026 shows her as a very messed up individual, due to all the drama in her family's lives.
Liz Cruz (Roma Maffia): Liz is the anesthesiologist for McNamara/Troy. She is a lesbian and damned proud of it. She is more grounded than her co-workers and often serves as the moral compass of the show and does not hesitate to tell Christian or Sean (especially Christian) when they are acting like idiots. She and Christian often trade vicious insults but underneath it they do care about each other. Liz does not often approve of vanity surgeries that some people come to McNamara/Troy to get, but she is very compassionate and respectful to patients who are trying to correct deformities and lead normal lives. Liz does have her own beauty issues, however, as she thinks she is not attractive.
Nurse Linda (Linda Klein): Nurse Linda is actually a real nurse and is also the medical consultant on the show. She's frequently in the background, rolling her eyes at the goings-on in the clinic.
Grace Santiago (Valerie Cruz): Hired to screen patients before surgery, Grace of course became embroiled in the personal lives of both Sean and Christian. She was scornful of Christian's lifestyle, but she nonetheless slept with him –- more than once. She mysteriously disappeared between seasons one and two, and her absence was never really explained.
Kimber Henry (Kelly Carlson): Kimber was a self-absorbed model and easy prey for Christian's seduction -- both sexually and professionally. He convinced her she needed plastic surgery to be perfect then dumped her after the operations. Unknown to Christian she vandalized his cars and boat until he rekindled their relationship. Christian was unable to stay true to one woman, however, and arranged a trade with rival plastic surgeon Merril Bobolit -- a car for Kimber. In retaliation Kimber persuaded Christian to let her tie him to the bed, then threatened him with a knife. She left him mostly unscathed and after an brief engagement to Bobolit, she disappeared for some time, reappearing as a porn star with a coke habit. Her porn career was very successful and she moved up to producing movies. She had a brief affair with Sean which ended when Sean caught her sleeping with Christian (again). She and Christian were going to be married, but she was kidnapped and mutilated by The Carver. She left Christian to find herself and returned as a Scientologist, though she struggles with some of the more ridiculous beliefs. Currently she's knocked up with Matt's child.
Gina Russo (Jessalyn Gilsig): Another of Christian's conquests, Gina met Christian when he attended a sexaholics meeting. He lured her to bed then sent her packing. Gina returned several weeks later to inform Christian she was pregnant, despite using protection during their encounter. Deeply desiring a child of his own, Christian agreed to help Gina raise the child. However, when Wilbur was born it was clear he was not Christian's son, as he was black. Christian remained supportive of Gina and Wilbur, however, still considering him his son. Gina shamelessly used Wilbur to manipulate Christian, and when her tactics began to wear thin, she tried to convince him to have another child together. When Christian refused, Gina turned to fellow sexaholics to impregnate her. This prompted Christian to sue for custody of Wilbur. Gina brought in Wilbur's actual father to help her, but upon seeing the lifestyles of both Gina and Christian, Wilbur's father sought custody for himself and won, devastating both Gina and Christian. A few months later Gina told Christian she was HIV+ (giving him his own AIDS scare) and could not afford medication. Christian began covering her medical expenses. In season four, Wilbur's biological father dies, and Wilbur is returned to Christian. Gina fights him for custody, then realizes she really doesn't want a child and lets Christian keep him.
Ava Moore (Famke Janssen): Ava appears in season two as a "life coach" who learns everyone's secrets (including Matt's paternity), and uses them to get what she wants. She starts up a relationship with Matt, which has his parents (all three of them) quite upset. She also has a secret of her own, which made the audience go "Buh?" Seriously. Spoiler: she's a man.
Adrian Moore (Seth Gabel): Adrian is Ava's rebellious teenage son. She's also sleeping with him.
Quentin Costa (Bruno Campos): Dr. Costa is a skilled plastic surgeon who spent a great deal of time in Africa fixing the faces of children mutilated in conflicts. He returned to the United States and was practicing in Atlanta when Christian called him in to operate on Sean's face after the Carver attacked him. At the time, Christian was unable to operate due to his pending HIV test. Quentin is bisexual has similar tastes to Christian with regards to after hours entertainment. He ends up becoming a partner in the practice in season three, filling in for Christian while he recovers from his own attack by the Carver. He has an affair with Julia and ends up getting kicked out of the practice after Sean catches him having sex with a male patient.
The Carver: The Carver is a serial killer/rapist whose motto is "beauty is a curse on the world." He targets models and other beautiful people, slashes their faces, and rapes them. After Sean performs corrective surgery on one of his victims, he slashes Sean's face and warns him not to fix any of his masterpieces. Sean does not stop, and at the end of season two, Christian is attacked and raped by the Carver. It was supposed to be a big surprise as to who the Carver was (revealed in the last episode of season three), but, well, it wasn't. Even if it wasn't, FX put up spoilerific promo photos before the finale aired. Oops. Spoiler: it's Quentin.
Kit McGraw (Rhona Mitra): In season three, Kit McGraw appears as a British detective investigating the Carver attacks. Of course she ends up sleeping with Christian. And Kimber. At the same time.
Michelle Landau (Sanaa Lathan): Michelle Landau is a businesswoman who buys McNamara/Troy at the beginning of season four. She becomes involved with Christian, despite being married, and hides a secret -- she's part of an organ harvesting operation. She and Christian get engaged, but when he finds out her secret, he leaves her.
The show is a magnet for guest stars, including Vanessa Redgrave, Alec Baldwin, Joan Rivers (as herself), Anne Heche, Larry Hagman, Brooke Shields, Jacqueline Bisset, Richard Chamberlain, Mario Lopez, Melissa Gilbert, Rosie O'Donnell, Alannis Morrisette, and Catherine Deneuve. In season five, Portia de Rossi and Oliver Platt will guest star, and rumor has it Nicole Kidman may appear.
Season Overviews
Season One: The show starts with Christian making a deal to change the face of a man desperate to change his identity due to be caught with "the boss's girl," a act that will come back to haunt Christian and Sean by the end of the season. Sean's marriage to Julia is beginning to crumble as she looks to Christian for support, leaving Christian torn between his feelings for her and his loyalty to Sean. Matt struggles with his own body image and his relationship with his girlfriend and his girlfriend's girlfriend. Determined to do something with her life other than be a housewife, Julia goes back to school, then learns she is pregnant again. Christian is forced to examine his life as several of his actions –- questionable decisions about operations and his treatment of women included –- start to have serious repercussions on himself and those around him.
Season Two: Though he is not the father of Gina's child, Christian is still determined to raise him as his own until Wilbur's real father challenges him and Gina for custody. The truth of Matt's paternity rips everyone's relationships apart. Sean starts to repair the mutilated faces of victims of "the Carver," a serial rapist, bringing the Carver's attention to McNamara/Troy. Meanwhile, Ava, a "life coach," begins a relationship with Matt, meddling with the lives of those around him. Things come to a head when Sean attempts to set a trap for the Carver.
Season Three: Christian deals with the after effects of the Carver's attack. The Carver steps up his attacks, leading suspicion to fall on Christian, and later Liz. Quentin is hired by the practice to help out. Matt starts to question his sexuality and turns violent. Julia, Gina, and Liz go into business together and open a spa. Christian finally meets his birth mother and becomes engaged to Kimber. When the marriage doesn't happen, he goes to a very dark place. Sean contemplates joining the federal witness protection program to be with a woman he's fallen for. Julia finds out she's pregnant with Sean's baby, and the Carver's identity is finally revealed.
Season Four: Sean and Christian sell the practice to give them more personal time. Sean and Julia find out their child will be born with deformed hands. Kimber pulls Matt into Scientology and becomes involved with him. Christian has a sexual identity crisis and becomes involved with Michelle Landau, his new boss. An organ harvesting ring is striking Miami, and Liz is a victim. Sean has an affair with his newborn son's nanny, and when they hire a new male nanny, Julia falls for him. Sean and Julia fight over doing surgery on baby Conor's hands, and she leaves him and takes Annie and Conor to New York. At the end of the season, Sean moves to Hollywood to open a practice. Christian dumps Michelle and joins him, and that is where season five will take place.
Show Status
Season Five is currently in production and set to begin on October 23. 22 episodes have been ordered for this season -- the most ever for this show. New episodes will air Tuesday nights on FX, and right now reruns are airing on Saturday nights between 11:00 EST and 1:00 EST.
Seasons One, Two, and Three are available on DVD. Season Four will be released September 4.
Nip/Tuck has been nominated for and won numerous makeup and prosthetic Emmy awards, and won an Golden Globe for "Best Drama," as well as nominations for Julian and Joely for Best Actor and Actress.
Video Clips
(Okay, I didn't intend to make the majority of the clips about Christian. It's hard to find non-music video non-Christian vids on YouTube! Really!)
Christian tells Sean about his childhood abuse (warning: very disturbing content)
Christian kicks Gina out of bed (warning: NSFW -- brief nudity and language)
The season two finale. It made me flail like a flailing thing that flails. A lot.
The Carver taunts the audience
Julia and Quentin discuss business and pleasure
Sean and Christian treat victims of the Carver (warning: very disturbing content and spoilerific)
Liz and Linda discover Christian on YouTube (warning: TOTALLY not safe for work -- sex and nudity)
Christian has a verrrry gay dream
Christian tells Sean about his dream
Christian confronts Kimber about her relationship with Matt (warning: language)
Christian gets Wilbur back
Why You Should Watch
This show is not for the faint of heart. The surgeries can be graphic, and the sex is equally raw. But the storylines and the acting are magnificent. The dialogue is fast and witty, and the scenes take the audience to incredible emotional highs and lows. Just watch and see for yourself, and hide your eyes during the surgeries if necessary. To be honest, some of the plotlines totally stretch believability, and the quality of the third and fourth seasons suffered compared to the first two, but I have high hopes for the fifth.
Plus? Did I mention naked Julian?
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But. Surgery scenes. D:
BUT. Naked Julian.
*flails and flails more*
*thwaps you for the LJ-cut text, but loves you anyway*
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... Is it October 23 yet?
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*loves the LJ cut*
I guess YouTube will have to do until October 23 gets here.
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... you think my mom might get mad if I steal, er, borrow them for a whole semester?
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