We all know this show is outrageous, but I was still pleasantly surprised at all the laugh-out-loud moments in last night’s episode.Most of them featured Bradley Cooper, reprising his role as (over)actor Aidan Stone and one of the doctors’ most interesting cases in a while. Unfortunately that meant some of the dramatic elements took a hit, but let’s focus on the good stuff first.
I thought Cooper was hilarious as Aidan last year and I loved pretty much everything about his appearance last night. I loved that he’s washed up now (after the Eden sex tape scandal) and trying to make it back to the big time by going “Costner” and writing, directing and acting his own movie. I loved that he thought pulling a “Costner” is a good idea today (in 1990 yes, not so much today).
Most of all, I loved EVERYTHING about his script, “The Deadly Tightrope”, starring Aidan as plastic surgeon/spy Sean, Morgan Fairchild as a hotter version of psycho agent Colleen, and a fat, bald, dead guy as Christian. From Cooper overacting as Sean during a drunken bender to the script concluding with Sean defusing a nuclear bomb, it was all fantastic. Also, for the first time in a while, the show distinguished its new-ish Hollywood setting. (A lot of these episodes feel like they could still be taking place in Miami)Basically, "The Deadly Tightrope" was everything the Hot Coco/ “Yo Stink” music video from a few weeks ago WANTED to be.
Aidan was also fascinated by Manny Skerritt, the well-endowed patient of the week, who was a yoga instructor and wanted a penis reduction because he spent all his time pleasuring himself. The opening consult with Skerritt matter-of-factly telling the doctors about his condition had me cracking up.
Of course, Aidan eventually became fascinated with Manny’s case and even broke his neck trying to taste his own “sweet nectar” (yikes!) and not, as he claimed, hitting an “ice patch” in his “Maserati” with “Patrick Dempsey.” Everything Cooper did last night in his few scenes was 10 times funnier than his hour and a half appearance on Saturday Night Live this past weekend.
Aidan eventually semi-blackmailed into granting him the rights to “The Deadly Tightrope” after telling Manny that Sean and new anesthesiologist Teddy Lowe had taken a picture of Manny’s “Namaste” during the operation.
Teddy is the replacement Sean hired after Liz’s departure and, while I like Katee Sackoff I didn’t care too much for this storyline.
Everything about it was completely predictable from the start. As soon as Sean took over hiring duties from Christian out of fear that Christian would hire someone inappropriate, we knew Sean would end up thinking with the wrong head in his hiring process. We also knew the picture they took of Manny would come back to haunt him (though the fallout was surprisingly minor). Most importantly, we knew the two would end up hooking up.
Besides being predictable, the whole “Sean dates someone dangerous who makes him ‘cut loose’, but is really just a bad influence” has been done. In fact, it was done earlier this season when Sean dated Eden and started doing ecstasy. While Teddy is more age-appropriate, it’s really the same thing, no?
Less predictable was the outcome of the Christian/Kimber (pictured, right) storyline, though I probably should’ve seen it coming.
Kimber (what did Kelly Carlson do to the writers to make them decide that Kimber will apparently never be likable again?) insisted that Christian inject his granddaughter Jenna so that she could get more high-end modeling work and rectify her “thin, villainous lips.” At first, Christian was as horrified at the thought as (I hope) most people in the audience were, but after meeting with top talent agents “the Steves” and enduring a cattle call casting session (where the casting director just happened to use “thin, villainous lips” as well) he had a change of heart.
Except that he apparently chickened out at the last second, leaving Kimber alone in the room with Jenna and the collagen shots. We were led to believe that Kimber had injected the baby by herself, but a flashback revealed that she had only done half the job. Christian stepped in and fixed her lopsided work by injecting the baby herself.
Personally, I was let down on several levels. First, I was disappointed in Christian, who (for some reason) I continue to believe is at least 5 percent good (maybe it’s closer to 2 percent). Then, when it was revealed that Kimber didn’t inject Jenna by herself, I was disappointed in the writers’ decision to not go all the way and have Christian be the one who injected Jenna. We’d seen Christian’s disgust during the casting call, and he’s not above taking short cuts, so it should’ve made sense. Kimber was right when she said that “everyone thinks she’s a horrible mother.” Well doesn’t everyone pretty much think Christian is a horrible person too? (And what is the deal with Jenna being with Kimber? I was pretty sure that one of the terms of Kimber leaving Matt was that Jenna would have to be turned over to Christian? I probably missed the part where they explained this, so someone please enlighten me.)
Giving him the out of “I was just fixing Kimber’s work” felt like a cop out in a show that hardly ever cops out.
So what’d you think of this episode? “What does the title “The Deadly Tightrope” even mean? Gentlemen, have you ever thought of doing a “Manny Skerritt”? (I’d be lying if I said I never thought about it.) Would you ever allow your baby to have cosmetic surgery? (That’s a double “no” for me.) Has Matt done anything more douche-y than stabbing Christian in the arm with that needle? (I say it instantly goes in the top 5). Finally, are you looking forward to seeing Liz next week or do you kinda wish they’d have kept her away for a bit longer? (I like Liz a lot, but even I think this return is a bit fast.)
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