It must be great to write for Nip/Tuck.I mean, seriously, you can come up with whatever weird, perverted stuff you can think of and, not only will fans of the show (like me) accept it as "well, that's Nip/Tuck for you", but we'll be laughing along the way.
Last night's episode of "Nip/Tuck" was suitably outrageous and one of the season's best because it came the closest to fulfilling the "let's move to Hollywood" promise of this season.
Although, I would've liked to have seen a little Dawn Budge sprinkled in to make things perfect, there was plenty of drama on the "Hearts N Scalpels" set. After another hilarious Aidan Stone scene (Bradley Cooper is fantastically over the top) in which the doctor was suffering from a case of "river blindness", the actor ended up hooking up with Eden, who had stopped by the set to, well, hook up with Aidan.
I loved Aidan's interactions with his blind consultant ("I'm going to show the world that blind people can cry") and the way he left the guy talking to himself when Eden showed up. Of course, we, as the audience, knew that Eden is into filming sex (she previously taped Olivia and Julia), so it was no surprise when their unfortunately brief, anti-Semitic, anti-deaf people sexual encounter hit YouTube. Oscar winner Marlee Matlin showed up to send Aidan to rehab, making Sean the new star of "Hearts N Scalpels". Freddy Prune probably had the line of the show when, in a nice dig at "Grey's Anatomy", he said "it's too bad you're not black — we could've kept you around till the end of the season."
We even saw Sean's ex-flame Kate on the set for the first time in a while, and she finally did something entertaining, mentioning to Sean that she was dating a black guy.
Speaking of Sean, he's seems to be coming into his own as an actor on the show (he commanded that pseudo-exorcism!) thanks to new agent Colleen. Of course, it turns out that Colleen has some issues (alcoholism, a seeming obsession with Sean) which will surface next week. In fact, she may have helped unleash the inner diva in Sean, who was seen at the end of the episode macking on an extra the same way Aidan was hitting on Eden. Is it really an accident that Eden and Colleen showed up on the set the same day, and, as a result, Sean is the new star of the show? Hmm.
Meanwhile, the patients of the week, Jeff and Magda, were the most entertaining in a long time. The much, MUCH older Magda wanted her boy toy to get hair transplants to appear more manly, while the guy was determined to stick out the disgusting marriage with the horny old broad until she died. Of course, it turned out that Magda was the one checking him into a nursing home after he became a vegetable as a result of some vigorous post-op sex (how disgusting/funny was it to see her enjoy his convulsions?). Magda got herself a new boy toy, and we all prayed for the poor sucker.
I know the subplot of Jeff taking care of Magda was supposed to mirror Christian (pictured, right) taking care of Julia, it really didn't. Plus, the connection was unnecessary because the Jeff/Magda stuff (like her farting when they thought she was dead) was more than funny enough on its own.
Speaking of Christian and Julia, Dr. Troy cheated on her for the second straight week in which they were both thoroughly manipulated by Gina. She convinced Christian to participate in one of the more bizarre threesomes (even for this show) I've ever seen, in which she paid a hooker to have intercourse with Christian, while she made eye contact with and kissed him (wonder how many people are gonna try that one home later on).
Later, Gina went to see Julia and told her that she and Christian were having an affair, pretty much ending that "relationship." Honestly, as I mentioned last week, I didn't really think much of these two as a couple. In fact, I saw and felt more genuine heat in the final scene of the episode between Christian and Gina, where she made a convincing case that these two twisted characters belonged together.
Of course, their rooftop sex was abruptly broken up by Gina plunging to her death. Well that's the end of Gina. I'll miss her and Jessalyn Gilsig's solid work. She would've gotten grating as a regular, but the way the show sprinkled in some Gina made her a really effective foil. The only thing I'm slightly disappointed in was the fact that, as she plunged to her "Die Hard"-like death, she didn't yell "hey, asssshoooollllleeee!"
So what'd you think of this episode? Did Christian push Gina off the roof on purpose? What will Aidan do to Sean when he comes back? Where the hell is Olivia? Finally, would the writers REALLY kill Julia off?
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