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Man I don't know where the producers are heading with this third season. We already halfway through and I'm not thrilled or addicted to the show as I was for the first two seasons...

The whole story around Ben White was kinda shaky. Ben White has BIID, some weird ass psychological disease about people wanting to chop their limbs off to be in peace with their inner-self. I'm sure it's a WASP thing, 'cuz it sounds stupid. Well this dude doesn't like his right leg and is willing to pay the practice a $100'000 to do him a favor. Basically Christian pussies out and pull out some moralistic excuse and the dude shoots himself on the leg and Christian ends up doing the surgery on him for free.

I don't really like how Christian is becoming the new Sean and Quentin the new Christian. It's cool for the characters to mature and evolve but removing what made them so genuine is hurting the show.  

The new spa business opened by Gina and Julia is real nice. The interior is well decorated and smell luxury. At first they struggle for customers when Joan Rivers pay them a visit, she decides to promote them through a sperm facial cream. OK, this is sick. That whole sperm facial comes from a confession of one of their customer who admitted using semen from her sons on her face to look younger...

Sean left the practice and got hired by the FBI as a plastic surgeon in the witness protection program. He has to redo the faces of witnesses so they can live a new life without fears of getting killed. Sean goes back to his philanthropy roots on this one and ends falling in love (imao) with his patient.

In the end, Christian proposes to Kimber who accepts. Happy ending...whhooowhooo...

Don't want to extend this post further. Give it a C, peace out.

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Is it just me or this episode was fucking awesome.

Thanks to Christian's accusation of being the Carver, the McNamara/Troy practice is near bankrupcy. Their client list just vanished, their website was shut down and the overall bad press won't make it easier for the surgeons to recover financially. They end up doing the shitty jobs, such as a German tourist who doesn't speak a word of English, a 150 years old mummy that wants to look younger or FrankenLaura.

FrankenLaura is the sick product of some cramatorium dude. Laura is the guy's sister, she died in a car accident and ever since, he is been sleeping with her rotten body. Unfortunately for the sick fuck, as the body is decomposing he is not longer able to get his groove on so he chopps her dead off, bring it to the cramatorium and fix it to other dismembered body part, thus the name FrankenLaura. He eventually gets caught and the owner of the morgue hire Sean to fix the "little problem". Fucking necrophiliac.

Gina's back and she is still a bytch. An ungrateful, greedy bytch. Christian has been giving her money on the side so she wouldn't sell her body for survival, but when he announces her that he can't hold this promise anymore, she calls him an asshole. What a ho, he didn't owe her anything, he just gave her the dough out of goodwill.

Anyway Gina goes to visit Julia and convinces her to invest in a spa recovering center. They put the down payment in a superb mansion occupied by squatters, prostitutes, and crackheads and pimp it out. The chemistry between Gina and Julia is undenyable and it's cool to see theim enterprised their own biz while the McNamara/Troy practice is sinking in a sad irony. Oh, I almost forget, since them two girlz don't have that much money, Gina decided to pay her employees and the whole construction company crew by giving them blowjobs...hahaha...

Liz resigned and went to work as general practitioner for Julia. Ok, that is mess up. Sean doubled her salaries not too long ago and now she leaves as soon as the practice experiences some bad moment. I feel like half of the women in this show are bytches.

Sean finally realizes that he is a loser. He lost his wife, he lost his son and now he is losing his practice. It's like the moral of this show is "honesty doesn't pay unlike cheating and lying". Can anyone spell AMEN for me?

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Mmmm, I gotta admit, this episode disappointed me a lot, I had a good time watching it but it's definitively not Nip/Tuck material.

First of all, I didn't like how the whole episode revolved around Christian, leaving the other characters in the shadows. Secondly, Kit's part was poorly written. And finally, the reunion between Christian and his mom was ridiculously short.

It's regrettable that this season focuses more on the main characters instead of the clinic's customers. Their colorful weirdness added a lot to the show. For example, the side story about Granville Trapp, a gay guy dying from AIDS, had probably five minutes of screen time max. It’s too bad because the subject had potential controversy. It's kinda creepy how Granville Trapp wants to fix his face up so people won't notice that he has AIDS, Sean sorta opposes it and I stand with with on this issue. Again, it would have been interesting if the story had a little twist to it or something but unfortunately the script decided not to highlight this person.

Ok, back to Christian. When the show opens up we see Rhea Reynolds, her throat slit, lying dead on her bed. The word FRAUD is spelled with blood on the wall. Kit McGraw, the detective in charge of the case, points out that the Carver made a couple changes from his previous attacks: he never killed and he never attacked the same person twice (which is fallacious since Rhea Reynolds was a fake victim the first time). Couple scenes later, she arrests Christian for this murder.

It is so obvious that Kit’s arrest of Christian was a revenge for being dumped by him. Most of the evidences against Christian are so flawed that she keeps on pressuring him to confess. Pointing that he, as a 12 years old kid, used to play the surgeon with dead cats, dissecting them and all, was ridiculous but quite funny. Or her assumptions about the bondage porn or the tranquilizer that she founds in his apartment are indefensible in court. Kit even go as far as provoking Kim to slap her so she can get arrested for assaulting an officer. The only proof that Christian was the real Carver is the condom full of his sperm that she found next to the victim. I also have a theory about how Christian’s reappearing mom is just an undercover cop trying to push Christian into confession. Her story about her being rape when she was 14 and abandoning him is just too much.

At least the ending was great. In a great strategy, Christian calls the media about him being arrested. The real Carver all pissed off that someone else is taking credit for his work; go cut someone to prove the media wrong. With the real Carver still in activity, the cops have no choice but to release him from jail. Once back at work, Liz (the anesthetist) tells him that the new victim from the Carver is in his office. There, Kit McGraw lays with the most pitiful look on her face…  

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Pain, pain and pain again. With it's obsession on pain, this fourth episode had, by far, some of the most depressing moments that Ryan Murphy has presented us. Beautiful in its darkness and sense of despair, Nip/Tuck is taking a very different path from what the audience had expected.

The storyline around Matt is getting thicker by the minute. After Sean punches Matt in the face in the last episode, he founds himself with a restraining order. Matt, seeking further revenge, sends some social workers to interrogate Annie (She's back!) about her dad's violent behavior. One of them finds soccer bruises on the young girl and manipulate her into saying that her dad is responsible for those benign wounds. The social workers then threaten Sean of removing him the right to see his daughter. Those social workers can be pretty dick. Anyway, under Julia's pressure, Matt cancels the restraining order and tells Sean about it. In this scene of great intensity, Sean asks Matt to hit his face so they would be even. Matt doesn't (it would have been pretty gay if he indeed would have done it) and takes off leaving Sean alone with his guilt and suffering. Showing his extreme despair, Sean grabs a kitchen knife and carves his arm (this scene is foreshadowed by an earlier patient who cut herself to relieve her pain). I remember in the first season how Sean's life and family was perfect, everything was in harmony and now it's all messed up, the beautiful irony.

The side story about that old lady who wants to rejuvenate her face so her Alzheimer's dying husband would remember her... yuk it's pretty stupid and definitively not dramatic material. I don't know why they added this part, it's a big waste of precious time. The ending is pretty sweet though. After her long-ass surgery, she seeks her husbands recognition only to find out that he has a girlfriend. HAHAHA!

This episode is also the occasion for a new victim from The Carver. Rhea Reynolds is a fake, an attention seeker. Tired of being unnoticed since she lacks any trait of beauty, she decides to cut up a big smile on her face with a bread knife in the way The Carver do. Thanks to her retarded action, she becomes the center of attention, everybody empathizing with her thinking she is a new victim from The Carver. Christian, looking past her Jesus freak appearance, sees how she just wants to take advantage of the hype. While examining Rhea Reynolds cuts, Christian and Quentin find out about the truth but she then decides to sue them for anesthesia malpractice. When she brings her lawyer, Christian confronts her about her lie and she accidentally confess. What a ho. In the final scene, The Carver shows up in her apartment and give her what she really wanted...

There is also a hypothesis that is drawn about Christian being The Carver, especially after Sean examines his ass and sees no trace of rape. I don't think he is The Carver, I mean it would just kill the show. But I can see how in the next episode, Kit (the hot detective and Christian's ex) in a desire for vengeance, tries to pull him as the possible Carver. Who knows, who knows?

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I don't know if you have feel this too but this third season is getting darker by the minute. The drama is kicking in badass but I must admit that I miss the glam of the first two seasons. Where the fast cars, hot models and coke parties at???

Lights on. A close up vision of Matt getting ready for a facial surgery reveals some pretty deep bruises, the transexuals didn't do a hald-ass job here. Scared of the consequences, Matt lies about what happened until Kit (the hot detective that Christian banged) confronts him with contradictory evidences. Sean and Julia decide to send him to a military school while Christian (Matt's biological father) opposes this decision and would like to see his son under heavy medication and counselling.

We are then driven to the side story of this episode, Derek, Alex & Gary. It is hilarious. Two fraternity pledges were asked to glue their faces to another pledge's butt. Problem, the only ways to unstuck them require a hammer or some good acid. Trying to avoid the shame that a visit to the hospital would cost, the fraternity calls up one of their alumnus: Dr. Troy. Christian, accompanied by Quentin, intervenes in the middle of a curious crowd and liberates the three dudes from their unfortunate stupidity. The doctors are then invited to a frat party.

The frat party was sweet. The girls attending had to wear bracelets of colors. Blue for blowjob givers, double blue for 69 predators, pink for lesbos and green for golddiggers. Christian declines the invitation so Quentin brings Sean to the little hedonistic gathering. A dozen shots of liquor later, Sean and Quentin are receiving heads from some easy going hotties but Sean freaks out because Quentin winks at him in a disturbingly gay manner.

When Quentin brags about the party to Christian, the later offers him to have sex with his girlfriend's girlfriend Kit because he can't stand her manipulative attitude. While the song Wait from the Ying Yang Twinz encapsulate the moment, the foursome couple start to fornicate. Quentin then ruins everything by grabing Christian's and by admitting his bisexuality then takes off. Christian, still grossed out, orders Kit to get out of his relationship with Kim.

Matt's attitude was already deteriorating fast but it's getting worse when he starts popping those Xanax pills and mixing them with alcohol. He shoves Julia when she begs him to come back to normal and get's punched in his healing scars by Sean. Lights off.

Ok. Is it me or Quentin is the psycho-mime Carver. He is a surgeon, has access to drugs, is bisexual, is attracted to both Sean and Christian, makes weird comments about his habits... That's like too many coincidences. What do you think?

I think Matt deserved the final punch. He was already a messed up brat in the previous season but he is breaking all the limits now. It is really interesting to watch how the producers chose to develop his character. I'm loving it (no homo).

The next episode is going to be grandiose. We can already speculate about what is going to happen to Christian with that bytch Kit being mad at him. The Carver is back too so we can check if my hypothesis about Quentin is true.

PS:
I was checking a forum earlier and I read about Annie. What the hell happened to her? Does anyone knows if she is still on the show?

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Nip/Tuck is a show that ain't scared of nutin'. In the first episodes, the admitted audacity starts off quite spectacularly. Sean McNamara and Christian troy are business partners. They'd open a private clinic of plastic surgery in the heart of glamorous Miami, the city of all excess. Unlike other shows anchored in political-correctedness, Nip/Tuck depicts chirurgical operations bare naked, with a certain sadistic disgust. Blood squirting everywhere, cartilage popping on the assistant's face, remaining of failed liposuction leaking on the floor, this show is not recommended for everyone because we see everything (I mean everything).

Passed the first visual shock, we discover a dramatic show with a scenario that renew itself from episode to episode, not giving us enough time to digest the multiple surprises. The depth of the characters is astonishing since most of them are multi-dimensional (sort of like the characters of OZ).  Christian Troy is the stereotype of the artificial playboy that judges his success in the amount of money in his bank accounts and the bra size of his dates. He doesn't have any ethics and uses his physical attributes to manipulate then bring new female clients to his clinic. At least that's what the firsts episodes let us believe. Then, it's a man whom certain scars from the past will make reappear in him many fears and making him more likable. On the other hand, the prude and moralistic Sean McNamara reveals himself as a bad husband and father, lacking enthusiasm and passion. This alteration in the persona is true for all the other characters. Sometimes we sympathize with them, sometimes we hate them. And this, is the strength of Nip/Tuck.

Add to this, awesome actors, disturbingly taboo topics, beautiful scenery and a score always perfectly matched to the situation and you will obtain the last masterpiece of American television.

PS:
Is it me or Matt McNamara (the son of Sean & Julia) is Michael Jackson's twin?

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Damn this episode was short. Short but dense. Full of very controversial themes too such as whether or not animals have soul, the principle of trans-sexuality, the relationship between parents and children, or the reinsertion of violent criminals.

This episode is entitled Kiki, which is the name of a female gorilla. Guess what, some crazy scientist is asking the clinic to heal a scar the gorilla has on her face. The theory Behind that ridiculous demand lies the theory of natural selection. In brief, this gorilla won't be able to reproduce if her mate sees the scar because it would pass a bad trait to the future generation. Under Liz's pressure and without Sean's consent, Christian operates the gorilla but her mate ends up on killing her cuz he felt there was something wrong about her. 6th sense I guess. The story with the ape underlies the main theme of this episode: how we try to change our appearances to hide or forget the past but fail to change our inner-selves.

We are also introduced to an ex-Cuban gang member trying to get a fresh start in his life by surgically remove his tattoos. Quentin Costa, the clinic's new associate, snaps a the gangster and acts like a real asshole. So far, we have very few information about this new character but this sudden anger burst gives us some clues. Unfortunately for the poor Cuban dude nobody wants to hire him since he was convicted for violent crimes even though he changed his lifestyle and erased his tattoos.

The really interesting topic of this episode turns around Sean McNamara's son: Matt. In the second season, Matt had an affair with an older woman named Ava who, in fact, turned out to be a transsexual guy. We were left off when Ava takes off and her "son" stabs himself to death. Back to present, Matt goes to Ava's empty apartment and masturbates in her bedsheets then discover, in a disturbing scene, the decomposing body of Ava's son. While he gives his depositions to the cops, Sean tells him that Ava was a transsexual. Traumatized, Matt now questions his sexuality and try to prove himself that he is not gay. First he goes to a transsexuals bar, hook up with a she-male, follows him/her to its apartment and finally beat the shyt out of it when he discovers that the she-male was pre-op and has a dick. Then he decides to shave his long hair in an attempt to look less queer.

In a superb scene in the end rythmed by a beautiful score, we see that Cuban guy chased by his ex-gang brothers and Matt chased by the she-male and her friends seeking revenge.

Perfect example of how complex the characters are is the radical change into the depiction of Julia's mother. In previous episodes she was the definition of the materialistic emotionless bytch. Now she comes back as the cool grand-ma, smoking weed and having a good time with her daughter.

I also find it quite funny when Christian & Sean are operating a patient and talk shyt to each other with the slick music on the background. Talks about ethics, uh uh...

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Just done watching back to back Nip/Tuck season premier twice on Fox and thought that I should write an episode by episode season summary guide because I am sooooo addicted to this show and I also want to spoil y'all's surprises.

The shows opens up in Christian Troy's apartment where he lies dead, his throat slit by the famous psycho mime. Next shot, we at the funeral. WHAT THE PHUCK?!? Christian was the pimp of this show, so why did he had to die, what didn't they make Sean die instead, he is the boring one? Oh, my bad, false alert, just a dream.

Next surprise, that cold bytch Julia is having an orgasm. That 15 years old Jude (I think that's his name, I need feedback guys) guy that she met in college is getting down on her and she apparently likes it better than when her husband tries.

In the operating room, Sean McNamara is replacing the silicon implants on some lady because her old implants had a leak for the past three years. It sticky-icky and phucking disgusting.

Then there is a pretty pathetic scene (useful I guess for the rest of plot) alternating between Julia that wants to divorce Sean (Jude is being a lil' bitch) and Christian proposing to Kim just after watching a porn where she starred in. BORING.

Christian is contacted by a (hot) British detective that is reviewing his case. We see the whole scene where the mime assaults and rapes (!) Christian but the poor dude doesn't want to confess to the cops that he was violated. So far, only his partner Sean knows about it. Remember that Troy was sexually abused as a kid by his foster dad.

Then we come to the main topic of this episode: Momma Boone. Sean is called by the po-po to examine someone in a Redneck neighborhood. OK this is wrong and hilarious and disgusting. Every-time I see a new episode of Nip/Tuck I get more and more shocked.

Momma Boone is a 700 (I'm guessing) pounder piece of cracka-ass cracka, she is literary stuck to the couch because she hasn't moved her fat ass from there for the past 3 years. She was fed by her husband and would urinate and defecate on herself. Thus the smell that alerted the neighbors, three blocks down the road. Since she had open wounds on her back, her body started to heal back on the couch, so the couch was "part" of her. It's kinda hard to explain so I hope you get the big picture. So they have to bring Momma Boone to the hospital. Problem she don't fit through the door nor in the ambulance. The firefighters then take a wall down and bring a huge truck.

We have a lil break with the introduction of the new partner in the Troy/McNamara business. He looks kinda teh ghey but we only see him for half a minute so I might be wrong. I didn't catch his name and my roommate would really like to know what liquor he offered Troy, if you have any infos, please feedback me.

Back to Momma Boone. They are about to operate her when they discover that she has necrotic skin tissue (sort of like gangrene) and have to cut her legs. She then kills herself by losing her will to live. She is then buried and THIS PHUCKING REDNECK husband of hers asks Sean and Christian to pick up the funeral tab which is pretty cheap, I don't care how poor you are. That's not it, the redneck husband appears to be a fetishist and ask if he could keep the couch where all her dead skin and body fluids are stained on. Sick.

Oh, by the way, my roommate is a nurse and told me that this shyt is 100% legit. Everything in that show is like hyper-realistic and all...

The ending scene is pretty sweet though. The hot detective goes to Christian apartment to take some evidence and ends up screwing him. Kim walks in midway the intercourse, got pissed for a lil bit and then join them. Christian the pimp is back with a nice threesome. Can't wait for the next episode.