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Nip/Tuck is an American drama series created by Ryan Murphy, which aired on FX in the United States. The series focuses on McNamara/Troy, a plastic surgery practice, and follows its founders, Sean McNamara and Christian Troy. Each episode typically involves the cosmetic procedures of one or more patients, and also features the personal and professional lives of its main cast.
Website: http://www.fxnetwork.com/shows/originals/niptuck/
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361217/
The show is available to stream on Hulu in the US and on Starz Play in the UK.
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Since I'm on the last season, I assume they are just going to hope we don't remember things...
Julia - I guess she just forgets she killed some other woman that she thought was her mom (and forgets she thought she was killing her mom)?
Eden - does Julia ever remember she poisoned her and shot her? I know Eden blamed her dead mom for it, but if Julia's memory comes back then she could bust her for it
Butt guy - Did I miss the butt inspector guy that snuck into their office to get a rectal samples getting busted for it?
Ava - just gets away with killing her son?
Christian - never talks about getting tested again for HIV or faces killing Gina?
Costa - that's it?
Watching S2E6 What the fuck? My skin is crawling
I just finished watching it all. Man was that a ride. Pretty good ending but I hate Matt. As much as Kimber sucked, I wish she hadn’t killed herself.
She looks so fresh and put together when she's in Scientology. I always thought her hair and makeup aged her so much in the earlier seasons.
On season 6 and he’s freakin mime now?! How old is he supposed to be in season 6? I guess it’s better than being a tweaker. But he pisses me off
Season 1 spoilers below. Watching this show for the first time- I’ve always wanted to watch it. I’ve seen many the 2000s serial drama start-to-finish, so I’m no stranger to craziness. However, I just finished season 1 and I have some questions.
I accidentally spoiled some stuff for myself in future seasons and I need some affirmation that I should finish the show.
If you're enjoying niptuck, great. What's not great is that Season 5 Episode 16 labeled Gene Shelly has an accurate description, but it's the wrong episode. If you've just finished season 5 episode 15 "Ronnie Chase" skip over to Episode 17 that is labeled "Roxy St. James" AND THEN go back and watch episode 16. I knew something was off when there was massive context missing and a certain chain of events happening that I didn't recall. Similar shit happened with Ugly Betty (on Netflix & dvd). Anyways thank me later.
I think she likes it. Lol. This was S3E3.
Am I the only one disappointed the show concludes at season 6? Even though season 5 and 6 were lazyish writing and outrageous storylines I think the show was popular enough for a few more seasons. Why did the network/Ryan Murphy decide to end the show with season 6? This show was pretty good.
What was your biggest wtf moment in Niptuck? One that scarred you so that you randomly remember it like I just did on my bus ride to work. Mine was when that guy murdered that woman's dog because she made the dog give her oral with peanut butter as bait 🥴 wtf was that lmao.
A lot of things in this show weren't exactly acceptable when it was originally airing and some of it seems even worse with age, like Christian and Liz which seems illegal and gross, in addition to a long list of many other examples, but one thing that bothered me some when it first aired and bothers me much more now is the family dynamics and the way all their children are treated. Am I the only one that had an issue with it? I won’t even touch all their ways they all failed Matt. He failed himself in the end though as an adult he was in control of his later choices although a lot of his struggles were a result of his family issues. The thing I want to focus on with this post however is the younger children, Annie, Connor, Wilbur, and Jenna. With Annie and Connor specifically Julia, Sean, Olivia, and to a lesser extent the others treat the children as if they are secondary to their romantic relationships or personal desires, all while displaying this sense that they are good co-parents and want what’s best for them. Julia just ups and leaves with the kids hundreds or even thousands of miles away with no clear plan for them to spend any tangible time with their father. Olivia and Julia planned to move back to New York before her issue occurred and got mad that Sean said he was going to be their every weekend to see his kids. If Sean would have stuck by that reasoning he would have gained some points but no he devolved back to the same logic and reasoning he had displayed throughout the series. He was going their to be close to Julia and his kids were just a happy bonus. If Sean wanted to be more of a physical presence in his children’s lives the both he and Julia should have worked out a way to make that happen. If he didn’t want to be there then he should sit down and tell his kids that and stop pretending to be a great dad. Excluding any concern for their safety Julia shouldn’t be withholding the children from their actual father by leaving the country and starting a new family. It seemed like they both only wanted to co-parent with each other only if they were in a relationship together and if they weren’t together Julia was going to go raise the kids with someone else and Seans only role would be to pay child supporte and see them a couple times a year. Jenna has been through an awful lot in her short life and both of her parents seem to be just as bad or worse than Sean or Julia. Wilbur has suffered a lot of tragedy as well but for the most part it does seem like Christian cares about him more than anything else which is absurd to me that he seems to be the most loving parent of them all, only in regards to Wilbur and he’s been shown to love his grand daughter Jenna as well.
I wish there was a backstory for kimber and how she grew up. What all she went through. All the characters actually. Christian as a child and Ava too.. when Barrett Moore (Alec Baldwin) tells of how Ava came to be..
What about when Sean goes off on Kate after the swingers party and says he don’t think she’s good in bed 🤦♀️🫣 and she’s gonna get fat again & the shitty hot tub!! I still get embarrassed for her every time!!
Also, I know Matt is shit, yes, but he seems to care more for Jenna than kimber. I love kimber so much btw… but she is really not connected to her baby! How she goes without formula and Matt’s always holding her and feeding her and taking her everywhere with him. I know she’s on meth but geez. Matt was more nurturing. Even after she gets clean she’s still not really motherly. Does she just not love her like that bc she’s Matt’s? Maybe she just had postpartum and self medicated with meth..
Seriously, Matt is beyond a piece of shit. The trans girls all dumping piss on him after beating the shit out of him after Matt beat up one of their own was gold.
Christian has a brief stint as an escort which was so random and ridiculous. Yes he’s self destructive and a sex addict but this was just weird. Still, I would like to have seen it play out a little longer 😂
I recall that nip tuck premiered a season where the intro music used was Kanye wests Flashing Lights song, and Katee was fixing her hair in front of the mirror. I think Rose McGowan replaced her shortly due to scheduling conflicts. Which season and episode was that where she was fixing herself?
Cannot wait until this woman is gone. Reefer was awesome! Also cannot wait for the whole kidney storyline to end. I assume Michelle is who took Liz's kidney?
I loved his storyline. Was hoping they could have done something with him.
Bah!
IF there were a reunion show/reboot or if the show had kept going…. Where would the characters be? Do we think Christian would still be doing what he does best? The lady he met in the finale, the one he met similar to kimber 🩷 Matt & Ava & Jenna? Julia and her kids… Liz and her baby. And of course Sean!!? I started watching the show when it came out. I was 18 and a loyal watcher and just obsessed! I had all the series and rewatched probably a thousand times. I still am sad when it ends. Wish it would’ve lasted longer. God, if only. 😢 And Wilber! He was the cutest kid. He was such a pretty baby and when he got a little older I loved his little raspy voice ☺️
I can’t rewatch that scene without crying, for me it’s the saddest scene in any show Ive ever seen
I'm at the beginning of season 4. This kid drives me absolutely bat shit with his actions. Idk if I'm just getting older and am transitioning into the GET OFF MY LAWN phase or what. Each time we get past one of his stupidities BAM here is another one. Some more stupid than the last 🙄
I get kids his age do stupid shit but he just takes the damn cake. The amount of times I have yelled OH MY GOD at my TV in relation to Matt is ridiculous!
Breathing. And continuing. Stupid kid lol
I never got into this show when it was airing so I'm watching it for the first time right now. I caught an episode here or there back in the day and distinctly remember hearing people talk about the carver and how exciting this part of the show was
Now that I have finished season 3 and the entire carver plot line I can't believe anyone ever thought this part of it was good
For starters it's obvious Quentin is the carver immediately, I mean he's introduced 2 scenes after the carvers first appearance for gods sake. But even that didn't bother me anywhere near as much as the ridiculous twists this plot line had in the final two episodes of season 3.
What was the point of having Quentin have no penis? They use it to rule him out as the carver only to immediately confirm that it's him in the next episode (I understand that this was weekly TV but was it really worth all that just to keep people in suspense for 1 week?)
The surprise sister twist is impossible to take seriously already but when you think about it the entire plot unravels.
Why did kit arrest christian at all? If she is half of the carver what was the point of pinning the crime on him only to immediately exonerate him by having Quentin attack her?
Why did Kit interupt Quentin right before he cut the hand off? Yeah I get he needed to fake his death but why not wait 60 seconds?
Why did she bother telling Sean and Christian the info they needed to learn their identities?
Why did Quentin bother mutilating himself to remove himself as a suspect and then have Sean and Christian fix his face, only to re-reveal himself and attack them again the very next day?
What would Kit and Quentin have done if Gina didn't show up to invite Christian to the party? Or if Christian didn't freak out when Quentin grabbed his ass
It's baffling to me how stupid all of this is. Although I did get a hearty chuckle over the fact that they had to add a ridiculous throw away line about quentin paying a girl to pretend to blow him in order to maintain the "quentin doesn't have a dick" ruse
I’m a first-time watcher and just started season 4. I can’t believe Rhona Mitra was only 27 when she began filming season 3. She’s so beautiful, stylish, and brings such a powerful presence to the show! I looked her up, and it turns out she moved away to live on a farm in Uruguay. Such an interesting life choice for an actress! Anyone else a fan of hers?
I'm on season 3 right now, rewatching after seeing this show pop up a looong time ago before I even had internet. And I love Christian, sure he's an ass, but he's not a hypocrite, and a hypocrite is worse than an ass imo.
Sean, throughout the whole show has been an insufferable prick. He attempted to cheat on Julia, and then successfully cheated on her. Then once he found out she had a kid from a different person after sleeping with them once he goes crazy on her and kicks her out. He's always acting holier than thou with Christian, and even after Christian told him he was raped all he could say and do is: "you need to move on and get back to work, we all have our lives" What????
Finally, I'm at the 5th episode of S3, and you know what comes in the episode before. Christian is accused to be the carver, and Sean actually doubts him? Is this a joke? He literally told you he was raped! Now they are broke and Sean is once again acting like the hypocrite, unprofessional piece of shit he is and leaving in the middle of an operation for a woman he talked into doing the operation in the first place. Not to mention his contempt and condescension when talking down to Julia about the spa. Sure it was her first time doing something like this, but do you need to keep bringing up the med school bullshit at every turn when she gave it up for your children? He's hot and cold with her all the time whenever he wants, however he wants.
Spoiler - season 6, Wesley Clovis … that is definitely Matt’s gravest sin. Holy shit. He is the worst character in the entire show and that’s saying alot.
I'm getting tired of all these people breaking into Macnamara/Troy. We've seen people like Escobar, Gina, Michelle, James, disgruntled patients and so many more just walk right into this place and cause problems. I'm currently watching the ass bandit episode and I had to come here right away. How did he even get in there? Why isn't there security to get inside this building?
Thanks for reading
I am at the beginning of season 3.
Way too many plot twists in each episode to the point they mean nothing.
I feel like there is no pivotal point, no character defining moments. Yes, Sean is weak willed but at the end of the day resolute and a good surgeon. Yes, we get Christian fucks.
The Dr Troy death dream sequence at the beginning of S3 I was like "Oh, Okay."
I got the same vibe with Weeds. Soap Opera-esque writing.
I tried shazaming this beautiful song when Liz visits the other chick, in both scenes, where they first meet and where they broke it off - but Shazam couldnt find it. I also tried this website dedicated to songs in series - not mentioned. Anyone got any idea of the name of that beautiful piece? thank you
What is Teddy's deal? First time watcher. She killed leach lady.