I like the show but dislike the matt character, he is a huge jerk, but the writers nailed it making him a jerk , the ending made me sad, i want to see troy mcnamara as a team again

Re-watching for the billionth time; and whenever Christian starts being a whore I catch my self yelling "No! Bad Christian! Down Christian!" Like you would a dog.

Oh my god this show was ahead of its time.

I remember having to “sneak watch” this show while I was starting high school and I swear this show taught me so much about sex and my body.

I remember a scene where Christian was like This may be TMI, but the episode where they rebuild that poor woman’s clitoris made me first learn what a clit was (thank you CA public schools). That led me to trying out masturbation 😭

Liz literally walked me through how to do it lmaoooo.

The first seasons were so iconic.

i’m rewatching, just got to the la seasons and i miss the miami vibes sm 😭

Nearing the end of Season 6 - I’m not sure if this was intentional on the writers’/producers’ parts - but literally every single major character on this show is just so despicable/unlikeable LOL I think the only person I can watch for more than 5 minutes who doesn’t make me roll my eyes/agitate me is Liz. Christian, Sean, Julia, Kimber, Teddy, Matt, even Annie lmaoo it’s like a trainwreck of fatally flawed characters that I can’t turn away from…

I think I'm going to respond to this post wirh random commentary as I watch. So.. probably spoilers.

As far back i can remember i always spent most of my younger days watching TV shows, different genres; from Scrubs to The Sopranos, LOST and Prison Break, 24 and Twin Peaks and a vast catalogue of shows when the content on TV was in his prime. It was a delight watching the actors winning emmys for portraying my favorite characters and having them interviewed on primetime Talk Shows.

I came across Nip/Tuck when i was 17. My mind was blown away for the plot, the characters development, the gore and sex. It felt very down to earth and flashy at the same time. And of course, the perfect Soundtrack.

Leaving my context behind, Nip/Tuck really jumped the shark on season 5, the writers felt very arrogant for thinking that the show had enough popularity to switch the plot into a parody of the themselves with the ridiculous and over the top arc of Hearts and Scapels. The meta feeling of it, even when meta wasn't a thing. It would been acceptable for a Season 12 plot why not. That been said, i wouldn't be surprised if they had a Musical episode.

Eden as main villain was an unwatchable disaster, she was only there for the softcore fan service. Julia was unbereable and lazy, Matt became a filler character just to add more drama. The Show in its entirety never recover from this disaster. They tried to darkened the tone in the last season but it was to late and what they did to Kimber is unforgivable.

I didnt like the ending, it was flat and any of the characters had a proper closure, exept for Sean. It IS and amazing show indeed but the writers sinned for being very self aware and lost track of what they intended when they created the show.

Thanks for reading everyone, i have to say; Escobar Gallardo is one of the best villans on history of Television.

Now i can't listen A Flock of Seagulls without thinking Escobar banging in his pyramid shaped house.

The End.

SPOILER ALERT in the comments below.

I’m confused by episode 7. Can someone explain to me, I thought kimber made a deal with Christian to sign over custody of Jenna, so how come when she’s leaving Matt she still has custody of her? Was she going back on the deal or did she lie to Matt and Jenna will show up with Christian? I just finished the episode but I want to know what happened to the baby lol

I’m a first time watcher so no major spoilers please **

I think both of them have a fantasy of what is to be together, but reality never matched up. No matter how hard they tried(and they tried), it just never could match up in their own minds to that initial encounter in the pilot. To me this is the tragic aspect of this show.

started watching simply because cole turner (julian mcmahon) was killed off in season 5 of charmed & i wanted to see more of him on screen. (ended up liking dylan walsh even more lol)

i laughed, i cried, i was sad, angry & blown away. it's been a long time since i've watched anything more exciting, sexy, edgy, funny, sad & fucked up than nip/tuck. god, it was perfect from start to finish. the show slips in some places, but it doesn't even matter.

it's absolutely wild that this subreddit has only gotten 2k members in 13 years. i'm surprised there's hardly any media coverage of the show nowadays. various topics of the show have never been more relevant!!

i'm feeling nostalgic and sad. i envy everyone who has yet to watch for the first time!
want to rewatch the show already!

I loved it and still do. But does anyone know why the show isn’t on Blu Ray? I know season 4 came out at the time on it but that’s been it.

I saw this listing on eBay for season 1 on Blu ray in china im guessing. I don’t believe it but thought maybe someone knew if the series was in hd anywhere or not on streaming.

Thanks!

I think this episode is proof that Christian is a great surgeon, not just a boobs & lipo guy.

i would shell out a good chunk of change for one. anyone know why there was never a mask made?

I'm rewatching for the first time in years, and I find myself hating Sean. Maybe it's age and wisdom, but I think he's worse than Christian in so many ways. At least Christian doesn't pretend to be the perfect family man. I'm so tired of Sean screwing up and then lashing out at his own victims like it's their fault he's a dick...

There’s so many things in this show that has shocked me in it, but the peanut butter lady in season 4 had to be one of the most jaw dropping ones for me. I predicted it a little, but the fact that the husband went so far was what shocked me.

I noticed Erica & Julia mentioned it, I never heard this phrase before. What is it? LOL

DR. CHRISTIAN TROY had the greatest character development i ever seen in a show 🩷 he started as the typical asshole but by season 3 he is just so amazing. I love him 💜

Just came here to say i HATE Ava’s character she is so terrible 😐

Im about to finish my ER rewatch and after that I will rewatch this piece of art. I loved they used real life cases , sometimes even real life patients. They would have to tone this show down so much to fit today politically correct world. . Even the villains like Escobar Gallardo or Quentin Costa were great.

I want to dislike Matt again and I want to enjoy Christians shenanigans.

I thought they were quite scary. The only actual violence shown on screen was them strangling some random dude while on the phone with James.

Is the book 'Afraid to Cry' a made up title? I can't find it anywhere. In fact I can't find anything on the subject.

Coming to the end of the series as I start s6 e16 and I really can’t decide who is worse out them. Sean because he thinks he is morally superior and continues to make terrible choices that hurt others, or Christian because of every heinously selfish action he has ever done. Help me decide and why!

In this episode the psychologist that Christian and Sean hire recommends going forward with a surgery to expand a clients penis. The psych states this is because the change in the clients penis helps the client elicit a positive change in his life. Would this be a realistic recommendation in the plastic surgery world?

https://www.theringer.com/tv/2023/7/21/23802307/nip-tuck-oral-history-ryan-murphy

Hey Nip/Tuckians, Nip/Tuckers and McMahoniacs,

A few years ago, I did a rewatch and posted about it on this subreddit. Well, I recently got a Plex server and downloaded it and put it on as comfort TV and damn did I get hooked again. Here are some stray observations from this go around.

1. I feel like someone should make a supercut of the phrase "sweetheart" My god. Christian uses it, sure, as a tool to dehumanize the women he hurls it at, but it seems almost anytime a character has a villainous turn or needs to throw some attitude, it gets rolled out.

2. It's still very much a soap opera. For some reason, this time around the atmospheric music kind of got to me. They do this faux American Beauty thing anytime some there is some heavy dialogue. I feel like it got worse in the later seasons. Even the OR tunes didn't excite me as much in other watches. Although, now I have Jesus to a Child by George Michael in the sultry playlist it belongs in.

3. It was clear how exhausted everyone was during the last season. Given Matt's arc was re-hashed, we get baby swapping and another will they/won't they with Sean and Christian. Yeah, I can see all of the actors feeling there wasn't a lot to chew on here. At this point, we expect something "wild" to happen on any given story beat. But the series, up to that point, always gave us that and it became harder to find anything but shock fatigue after a while. Sean plays this the best, you can feel his apathy the most at this point. But I will say, the therapy stuff was some of the best stuff in the series. It felt like such a release to hear them get to the bottom of their issues, without any plot contrivance getting in the way (well, until the end when the therapist was shot. Again, the shock fatigue made this meh as well, you could see it a mile away). Aside from that, the last season limped to the finish line.

4. All aboard the Matt is terrible train! On my first rewatch, I guess I glossed over just how awful he is as a character and person. I know it's been posted on this subreddit how terrible he was and I guess I didn't see it as much, perhaps because I was closer to his age when this first aired but my god. Yes, you clearly see where it comes from, but at least Christian and Sean are good sometimes; they are altruistic, even if it serves a selfish need, especially Sean. But Matt? Nah. He is a poster child for those conforming to whatever woman or program they're with, to completely letting someone or something consume their entire identity...it's sad. To fail at everything and at different times, have both of your dads rub your nose in it. Ugh. But hey, at least he (probably) kicked meth? The turn at the end was so expected. Honestly, his actor should've been/still maybe would make a wonderful villain, sad he's not cast in more stuff.

5. I forgot how much I liked Teddy. So much, in fact, that I didn't realize she was swapped for Rose McGowan? Did I miss something somewhere? Either way, I felt like she was great with Sean.

6. It was pointed out on another thread as well but, man, not my Liz in regards to her and Christian! Honestly, watching their sex scene again, it was the most rapey scene in the show (in a show with a lot of ripping clothes off and 'I guess this is happening' type scenes!). To drag it out to the extent they did was such a sore spot for an otherwise incredible character like Liz. Definitely the worst thing Christian has done and so against character for Liz. Glad she found some love in the end.

7. Despite Matt's involvement, the Ava storyline really stuck out this time. Maybe it's the rising political climate around trans issues but I feel like it aged as well as it could've and especially looking at it at the time it aired, it seems almost progressive. I would love to hear a breakdown though of her arc from a trans lens.

8. I really got tired of seeing the Escobar stuff. The first season it was great, but every subsequent flashback or him acting as Sean's conscience just felt like diminishing returns. By the time I see him in the last season, with the go-nowhere plot of his daughter asking questions, I was like, okay, we get it. Dylan Wash is capable of not needing help portraying his struggles to act.

Bonus Cringe Award goes to...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umd44y7PVfc. I know it was satire, even at the time. I LOVE Jennifer Coolidge as well but damn. It was pretty cringy.

Did anybody else notice the old-fashioned busy signal among the background noise during the playing of “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” by the Supremes? It was in the scene where Sean is talking to Christian about swimming with the sharks and Christian says being respectful of fear is what reminds him to “slide on a Johnny hat every time I do a slip-in-dictomy on a woman of questionable standards.”

I have that record and it is not in the background of the actual song. I don’t recall seeing anybody take a phone off the hook prior to that scene. Did anybody else find it annoying?

PS: I paused it to make sure it actually came from the TV.