Well, in the tradition of Sean getting a blow job from an elf while playing Bad Santa last year, we were once again treated to another typically twisted "Nip/Tuck" Christmas.(I realize I'm almost two weeks late on this recap, but I've been away on vacation and I just caught the episode last night on youtube.)
While I didn't like this year's episode as much as last year's, you certainly cannot fault the actors and writers for, at least, trying to outdo themselves. Some of the stuff worked, and some of it didn't.
The episode opened with a group of Christmas Carolers called the Spirits coming to McNamara/Troy after being victimized by gang violence. I loved the leader of the group's account of being assaulted because they were wearing the wrong color with the group singing backup. Unfortunately, they kept up the caroler gimmick throughout the whole episode.
It didn't work for me. It was annoying and out of place. It's something that would've been much better suited for "Boston Legal" (which I love), but on "Nip/Tuck" it was kinda stupid.
Fortunately (for me), one of the carolers ended up getting shot after someone came after this week's patient "Duke Collins". Duke came to Sean and told him he'd been shot in the face by a kid who didn't get what he wanted for Christmas. To Sean's puzzlement, Duke forgave the kid. What Duke forgot to mention was that the kid was his son, who he'd abandoned, prompting the boy's mom to take a shot at Duke.
Other than the caroler getting shot, the purpose of this storyline was to mirror was Sean was going through with Matt (pictured, left). Seems as a result of the meth lab fire, he's still alive, but very badly burned. Sean, Christian and Julia interrupted their cutely geeky Secret Santa game to visit Matt in the hospital until Sean doled out some long-overdue, but still harsh tough love on Matt, the screw up.
Sure Sean is absolutely right about Matt continuing to screw up his life by being so impressionable and directionless, but the guy almost died. Thankfully, Matt seemed to have matured considerably by the episode's end. He was aided by Rachel, a fellow burn victim, who seems poised to become the latest female (after Ava the tranny, Ariel the racist, and Kimber the porn star) to dominate and influence Matt's life. At least this time it'll hopefully be a good influence.
Meanwhile, a lot of the episode focused on Christian and Julia's efforts to hide their affair from Sean. I found it a little odd that they seemed to be 100% worried about Sean's feelings, but 0% about Olivia's.
Still, that wasn't nearly as odd as the scene where Sean came home early, Julia hid in the closet, and Christian tried to cover his and Julia's indiscretion by pretending that he was exercising after masturbating. If that wasn't weird enough, Sean then went on to act like this was the most normal thing in the world and insisted he and Christian go Christmas tree shopping. If THAT wasn't weird enough, Christian, trying to get Sean out of there, insisted that he had to masturbate yet again. And if THAT wasn't weird enough, Sean said, he's just wait around until he was done. This scene worked for me, not because of the writing, but because of how truly bizarre it was.
In the end, they got busted because Christian (stupidly) went over the $10 gift limit on their Secret Santa. And because they'd been particularly lovey dovey the entire episode. Sean was upset at first, but I'm glad the writers decided to have him get over it fairly quickly. As Christian said, it's not exactly like this season's stud has been sitting around pining for Julia (who actually looked pretty good this episode).
So what'd you think of this Nip/Tuck Christmas? What is Eden putting in Julia's fruitcake? Is it poison for sure? I like that they're letting this play out for a few episodes. Will Matt finally turn his life around? How freaky deaky was that porn star Christmas party? Does Kimber still love Matt? Finally, how good is John Schneider as porn king Ram?
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