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‘Nip/Tuck’ pulls back: FX series’ sixth season starts with a beauty Nip/Tuck Login to vote
By Mark A. Perigard / Review | Wednesday, October 14, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com

If you abandoned “Nip/Tuck” years ago, you were not alone.

Long before he started making merry music on Fox’s “Glee,” creator Ryan Murphy made his mark with this overwrought drama about randy plastic surgeons.

Once engrossing, the show became just gross with a mix of bloody surgeries and violent assaults, stalkers, slashers, malevolent hermaphrodites and just dumb stories.

Last season, believing he was terminally ill, Christian (Julian McMahon) convinced lesbian Liz (Roma Maffia) to marry him. Heterosexual Julia (Joely Richardson) fell for another woman.

Murphy scripted the sixth season premiere, and it does much to set the show right.

Many series have used the recession as an engine for stories, but not one has made it as threatening as “Nip/Tuck.”

With the practice’s patient pool evaporating, Sean (Dylan Walsh, “The Stepfather”) suffers from crippling insomnia.

He makes mistakes in the operating room, risks his relationship with anesthesiologist Teddy (Rose McGowan) and ultimately jeopardizes his life.

With his cancer in remission, Christian dumps Liz. But as someone somewhere must have said, hell hath no fury like an ex-lesbian scorned. Liz sues Christian for everything he owns - and stands a strong chance of getting it.

By night’s end, both Christian and Sean are on the receiving ends of proposals that shake them both, for different reasons.

Murphy leavens the tension with dark humor, in a subplot that finds perpetual screw-up Matt (John Hensley) finding his bliss: working as a mime.

That career goes bad in record time tonight.

The title of next week’s episode “Enigma” would seem to refer to the patient of the week, a teenager (Parker Croft) who bears frightening self-inflicted scars over his head and body.

It could just as well refer to the strange woman Sean encounters in a diner during one of his late-night forays. She gets off in more ways than one, on her own suffering and that of others.

“This is not who we are,” Sean grabs her at one point in frustration and maybe a little fear.

That’s precisely the point of “Nip/Tuck,” peeling back the skin, exposing our vanities, the ways we seek to reinvent ourselves and the ways in which we deny our true selves. The new season returns to the heart of the show. It’s worth making an appointment to check out the direction.

Season premiere tonight at 10 on FX.
Written by: spevman [13th Oct 09, 20:07] Show Discuss
 
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