She’s a character who has spent much of the previous seasons lamenting her own neuroses while judging Sean for his, so its gratifying to see her actually try new things and then accept the consequences. She’s fallen in love with another woman she’s finally given an actual relationship with longtime love interest Christian a go, and then has had her entire life reset by a gunshot-induced bought of amnesia. Sean’s ex-wife Julia, for example, has gone through a lot during the two parts of Season Five. Like every season before it, Season Five, Part Two brings changes to the personalities and lives of it’s central cast. Watch the episode about the young man whose body won’t stop growing massive tree-like growths that confine him to a bed, or even the one about a couple with a vampire-like addiction to sucking each other’s blood, and you’ll see how willing the show’s writers are to find beauty and depth in unexpected places, and to treat the odder members of our human society with a sensitivity often lacking in the medical docu-dramas that dominate basic cable networks these days.Īnother thing the show has going for it is the characters that fans have come to know and love. But as Season Five, Part Two proves, that’s kind of unfair. There are all the usual hi-jinks Nip/Tuck fans have come to expect, from the silly Hollywood obsessions of actor Aidan Stone (guest star Bradley Cooper) to a seemingly distinguished plastic surgeon who has a sexual compulsion towards expensive couches.Ĭritics of the show have always charged that, like an old-time freak show, it merely cashes in on viewer’s desires to see weird, sometimes ugly examples of the human animal, while pretending to examine the darker aspects of human nature. The women vary from a cigarette-smoking cancer sufferer to a college student who wants to dress one of the doctors up in a diaper and pacifier when she sleeps with him. The plastic surgery recipients range from a booty-deprived female-rapper to an orally-fixated yoga enthusiast in need of a penis-reduction. The pair soon get back to work however, which means the usual Nip/Tuck season’s compliment of strange patients and stranger women is not far behind. Christian Troy (Julian McMahon) is able to help save him, although Sean is now wheel-chair bound thanks to his injuries. Luckily his best-friend and colleague Dr. Sean McNamara’s (Dylan Walsh) stabbing by his psychotic former PR agent. Season Five, Part Two begins in Los Angeles with the after-effects of Dr. On the one hand, the show is long past the glory days of its critically-acclaimed second season and ratings behemoth third, but on the other, it has been throwing grotesque and shocking images onto the screen since its first episode, which kicked off a show about the daily-lives of Miami plastic surgeons by having its protagonists “flush the child’s gerbil” and “dump the gangster’s body in the Everglades.”īut this set of episodes is still pretty crazy. But to be fair, Nip/Tuck is long past the point at which it can be accused of using crazy stunts to pull in the viewers and avoid stagnation. Season Five, Part Two, you see, offers plenty of bizarrely memorable moments to be burned into its watchers’ memories. “Chainsawing off the mammary”, for example, or “shagging the furniture”. After watching Season five, Part Two of FX’s Nip/Tuck, however, it becomes clear that even more ridiculous verb-object phrases are available to represent the phenomena. Thanks to the ’70s (pop culture reference-filled) sitcom Happy Days, “jumping the shark” has become the term most used to describe a television program’s leap from its own well-loved formula into a world of anything-for-ratings absurdity.
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