Nip / Tuck - Season Premier: June 22 - Hell Yeah!

For my boyz that don't know, Nip / Tuck is an FX original series launched last year that chronicles the lives of two plastic surgeons in Miami (who would have thought!) as they start their business. One of them's a no-good womanizer, into fast cars and all things scandalous (for illustrative purposes, let's call him Vik), and the other is straight-forward guy in a ****ty marriage, who gets sucked into the first fella's sordid business.

Entertaining story, lots of drama, beautiful women, and fast cars -- and that's just in the first five minutes! I loved the first season, and I think FX is showing reruns (or at least they were). The season premier for Season 2 is coming up: June 22.

Watch it!

PS - If you see the promo's on FX, they've got a shot of the first fella driving a red 360 spyder.
PPS - Site link here

 

Did you see the Nip/Tuck promo CD in People, EW, etc.? I have a few hundred copies if you want one...

Oh, and Famke is SO hot. So hot...

 

You can actually view it on the site as well.

 

So you don't want the disc with the Hi-Res video?

 

Bring one when we catch up tomorrow. (Bring Mischeif 3000 too, please!) Just ordered the first season on DVD. Warner Home Video.

Agree about Famke -- she's a hottie. They did well getting her. What was the name of the Bond movie she was in -- the one with the 355 GTS. Goldfinger?

 

Golden Eye.

 

I was going to post this in a little while but Vik did it for me. This is a GREAT show. I CAN NOT WAIT!!!

 

Mmm... Famke...

 

3.5 stars baby.
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That is good to hear. I will be awaiting the return! Only a few days away.

 

The premier is DVR'd for me. Who saw this, and what's the verdict?

Did they show the Red 360 Spyder that they had in the trailers?

 

TV is no good for the brain next we are going to be discussing THE SWAN and AMERICAN IDOL

 

Golden Eye...and the chick driving it was "Anna-Top" Damn, I love the Bond Girls' name...

 

Excellent episode but it was a bit gory at points in my opinion. I acutally had to cover my eyes at points but that does not mean a thing. I still LOVE the show. Vik you MUST watch the sneak peek into this season. It is at the end of the show. They made this season EXCELLENT and it looks like every episode is going to be like a season finale!! I can not stop praising but I will because if I continue you will have your hopes to high.

As for the 360 Spider, it was not seen

 

Definitely a great episode. But way too much information was given in a span of 30 seconds for the season.

 

Ya heard!

Commentary: The bravest show on television
'Nip/Tuck' hasn't shied away from characters' inner lives
By Frazier Moore
Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) -- "Nip/Tuck" continues to defy its audience's expectations by overwhelming them.

It could have been nothing more than a one-joke novelty act: a racy adult comedy-drama about a pair of plastic surgeons who (as we are reminded on the show) earn 70 percent of their seven-figure income from breast implants.

Never fear, "Nip/Tuck" doesn't shy from boob jobs (even, recently, for a man). But, in its second season, this FX series continues to do much more, using cosmetic surgery as a gateway to the soul. With sly agility it puts its characters under the knife to expose hidden truths about love, sex, beauty, aging, heartache, manhood and the vagaries of male friendship.

It remains TV's most fearless series -- and not just because of those all-too-graphic, music-accompanied surgery scenes. In the hands of creator Ryan Murphy, "Nip/Tuck" remains outrageous yet assured as it bridges the gap between outward appearances and private verities, continuing to startle its audience in the process.

On the surface, dashing single-guy Dr. Christian Troy and understated family man Dr. Sean McNamara have been living the dream, and "Nip/Tuck" basks in their success: their lucrative Miami Beach practice; Sean's happy home; Christian's glamorous women and bachelor pad. But holding on to what they have is the trick. And so far they have weathered malpractice suits, extortion, a death threat, assault, plus cash-flow problems and midlife crises. In a riotously funny moment on this often funny drama, lady-killer Christian broke his nose during sex. "Nip/Tuck" teeters at the brink of disaster on a nearly weekly basis.

Now they have hit a crisis like none before. They now know what viewers suspected for some time: that Christian is the father of Sean's high-school-age son from when, in college, he slept (just once) with Sean's wife, Julia -- probably the only woman this binge womanizer has ever loved. Sean has taken the news badly, to say the least. But just as it seemed their practice was on the rocks, the doctors were summoned to take part in one final case: experimental surgery to separate adult conjoined twins. The operation was a failure. The twins, it turned out, never wanted to live life apart. The lesson wasn't lost on Christian and Sean. Still bonded as each other's best friend, they will carry on together, however damaged their partnership.

"I will never forgive you for what happened," Sean (played by Dylan Walsh) told Christian (Julian McMahon). Then, referring to his son, to whom Christian is godfather, he added: "We raised Matt together. He was always the best part of both of us, and that's a connection I can't let die."

On this week's episode (Tuesday at 10 p.m.), it's poor Julia, the female point of the triangle, who continues to take the brunt of Sean's rage. Unhinged, he has thrown her out of their house and can barely bring himself to speak to her.

"Sean, why is it that you can forgive Christian but not me?" asks Julia (Joely Richardson.

"I don't know if I've forgiven him," seethes Sean. "How dare you ask me that?"

Meanwhile, Kimber Henry, a dishy actress-model-whatever whom Christian has previously dated and discarded, is back in the picture -- and in the doctors' office for a consultation, along with her prototype of a life-size "Miss Kimber" sex doll being marketed by her adult-film producer. She wants the doctors' services in, um, improving a part of its anatomy.

"I have orifice approval," she announces.

Before the episode is over, Sean has bedded "Miss Kimber" in a startling tryst (a first for TV drama?) as well as its flesh-and-blood counterpart (played by Kelly Carlson). Thus does "Nip/Tuck" again investigate the sometimes shadowy distinction between what's fantasy and what's real, while demonstrating man's capacity for vengeance against those he loves most: With Kimber, Sean gets to punish both Christian and Julia.

In short, "Nip/Tuck" chronicles dissatisfaction. The theme song, played against images of stark-white, perfect mannequins, implores, "Make me beautiful." And "Tell me what you don't like about yourself" is the standard refrain from Sean and Christian to their prospective clients -- the assumption being that self-acceptance is a function of appearance.

Sometimes it is. But more often on "Nip/Tuck," the lives and labors of Sean and Christian add up to disappointment. "I can see the doll is well fabricated," Sean tells Kimber when she meets with him and Christian. "But in the end, she's just rubber. She's not real."

To which Kimber replies, "Sometimes, Doctor, real isn't what you want." That may be. But obscuring the difference is what they're all about.

 

i wonder where he got his nose job

 

Only shows I will religiously watch are Stargate SG1, 24, and The Wire. I sadly admit I watch Alias every once in a while...

There just isn't a damn thing worth watching on TV anymore...

Old shows that kicked butt:
X files (last 2 season sans Fox sorta blew chunks) Waiting for the next movie

Millenium was awesome. I don't think the network/public was ready for this type of show yet

Joss Whedon shows. I won't say what they are cause people would stone me to death

 

JOEY is freakin' beautiful! I'd better not let my wife see these pictures of him. If she does, then add another animal to the 993 Guy Zoo!

 

I LOVE THIS SHOW!!