Meanwhile, Christian becomes a male escort (!), and there’s a bizarre encounter with “Babylon 5’s” Claudia Christian that must be seen to be believed. Sean becomes the toast of the town and even begins dating the show’s leading lady, Kate (Paula Marshall), becoming party buds with the vacuous leading man, Aidan (Bradley Cooper).
At first, Christian is certain that this is his ticket to fame, while Sean is reluctant about the entire affair, but the tables quickly turn when the camera favors Sean, and Christian sulks away to soothe his bruised ego in all manner of seedy ways.
In order to boost their profile, they agree to join a crappy TV series called “Hearts ‘N Scalpels” as technical advisors who will also briefly appear onscreen during the surgery sequences (which nicely echoes the role of Linda Klein’s character Nurse Linda on “Nip/Tuck” itself). In Miami, Sean and Christian were big fish in a little pond in L.A., however, they’re minnows swimming with sharks. Although at season’s start, business isn’t so hot. McNamara (Dylan Walsh) and Troy (Julian McMahon) had packed up their scalpels and headed for sunny Beverly Hills – after all, what better place for two amoral surgeons than Hollywood? – so Season Five is something of a new start for the offices of McNamara/Troy. And, yet, it’s FX’s biggest ratings grabber, so either I move in some strange circles, or some people are lying about what they’re doing on Tuesday nights.Īt the conclusion of Season Four, plastic surgeons Drs. I can count the number of people I know that watch it on one hand. It is, after all, tasteless, vulgar, trashy, over-the-top fare that most people probably don’t care to admit they enjoy. After all, if you enjoy a TV show or movie, why feel guilty about it? But in the case of “Nip/Tuck,” and coming from someone who’s been with it every sordid step of the way, I can understand where the guilt might start creeping in. Normally, that’s a phrase that seems sort of hollow to me.
Ip/Tuck” is the kind of show that people often refer to as a guilty pleasure.
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