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It's sad to watch one of the best series in television self-destruct, but that's what has happened to NIP / TUCK over the last three seasons. Season One contained some of the finest moments in television history. While not as good, Season Two had many memorable moments. Even Seasons Three and Four had worthwhile performances. However, by Season Six, all of the main characters are so decadent, they've become unpleasant and, worse, boring. Christian, while always dis-likable, at least had some interesting demons. Sean, on the other hand, has become a whiny pedophile. Julia, the weakest of the leads, has now become a caricature, as has Matt. Sad to watch, but thanks for the memories. Also, PLEASE GO BACK TO Miami!!!

Being a big fan of Ryan Murphys productions i was sure to check out nip/tuck. Back in 2010 i brought all the seasons, watched season 1-3 then stopped.. tried again a few years later but stopped at season 3 again. Now in 2019 i finally have passed season 3 and am watching the final season now. Season 1-3 are amazingly good. Season 4 was meh, Season 5 is my favourite season. But season 6 is so bad! I cannot get into it! But overall this series is a good watch and i would reccommend watching it.

It's riveting, it's controversial, it's explicit, and it's steaming up the small screen! Nip/Tuck is certainly not your average cable television show, but its material is presented in such a way that you're hooked after the first couple of episodes. It's real, it's bloody, and it gets under your skin. But personally, I think Nip/Tuck is a real gem - and the acting is totally off the page. Just when you think it can't get any better, Ryan Murphy throws you another delicious twist. I recommend that everyone watch at least one episode. This show offers the opportunity for talents like Dylan Walsh and Julian McMahon to shine in truly unique roles. FX definitely scored with this one.

This show is way before it's time . Cast is brilliant.story lines are awesome. Under rated show.

This show is without a doubt my favourite tv series of all time, you could argue the sex and violence is oftentimes gratutious. The storylines can also be overly complex and outlandish, but what the show does so well is it was able to work those otherwise over the top ideas into a viable story. It also has a bit of everything and never shies away from ideas that would never make it to screen these days. It's just refreshing to see something that is without any restraint and went head first into absolutely anything it liked.

I don't understand the view that the acting is poor, I think Dylan Walsh and Julian McMahon have definitely had dodgy projects throughout their careers. But Nip/Tuck wasn't one of them, you do truly buy into their friendship despite both characters being polar opposites. There are other characters who become very unlikeable as the series go on, Matt (John Hensley) never becomes more than an entitled whiny kid anytime he makes a little progression he finds a way to reach a new low. Julia McNamara (Joely Richardson) falls very much into the same category, very self entitled and complains constantly over non issues.

The show is intelligent and has great use of dark humour, it amazes me so few people appear to know about it. I think they must hear the name Nip/Tuck and assume it's a surgery documentary or something. The surgery scenes are very realistic but the show is very much a drama.

Nip/tuck's greatest irony lies not within its vast web of lies, deception, cruelty, satire, and tragedy, but within the fact that most of the show's fans have completely missed the point. This show, along with The Shield, is one of the most challenging pieces of art ever crafted. The creators of the show are wise enough to understand that most will interpret the show as a glorification of sex, desire, selfishness, etc. For those reasons, viewers will either love or despise the show. But both parties are wrong. Nip/tuck is a satire of superficiality and a thoughtful portrait of human misbehavior and its damaging results. But unlike the so-called "insightful" attitudes of most satires, this series is subtle in its commentary. So subtle, in fact, that at times it seems to be promoting superficial beauty and selfishness. But underneath all of this, there is a cosmic layer of feeling and emotion that I cannot describe in words. Throughout all of the wickedness and absurdity of the events depicted in Nip/tuck, I realized that I deeply care about the characters. They have become more real to me than some actual people I know. This series could have easily been just another medical show or even trashy pornography, but it cuts too deep and sees far too much honest pain for that to be the case. It is a brilliant series and I recommend to those with the stomach for it.

I come home back from college and I'm already turning the TV on. It's nip/tuck on FOXlife (here in Brazil).

I'll make it short. The show orbits around the life of two hotshot plastic surgeons on Miami. But I fool you not, this is not a House M.D. about plastic surgeries, it's beyond that.

The photography is a bliss, this show is simply an eye candy in terms of camera, lighting, cast, gosh - the costume designs. You could watch it on mute.

But don't.

The screenplay is well done to say the least. When the writers are inspired, you got yourself a fifty minutes masterpiece. This is not as nearly as a good review making justice to this great show, but hey, stop reading this and go watch it. If you don't, you lose.

This started out as one of the strongest and well acted shows on TV at the time of release but unfortunately, like with many Ryan Murphy shows, it just went on for too long.

After a few years, I've finally finished the entire series of Nip/Tuck and it's a mixed bag. From season 1-2, you won't get one complaint out of me. The characters were complex, the writing superb, and the acting beyond stellar. We shouldn't care for confused, privileged Sean, Christian, and Julia, but somehow, we do. It's the writing and acting that take this far above your standard night time soap and into something far deeper and more meaningful. This is a show that has an awful lot to say and doesn't apologize for any of it.

The show reaches its pinnacle with the introduction and storyline of Ava Moore (a brilliant and sexy Famke Jansen). The Ava storyline, in fact, is so fascinating and unique that it ends up making everything that comes after it feel bland.

After a genuinely wicked season 2 cliffhanger, the show returns for season 3 and gets off to a rocky start with a confusing dream sequence, but after that, the show gets back to normal and is better than ever...until the reveal of the evil Carver. It's so dull and obvious from the get-go that you just have to sigh and hope for something better next season.

Unfortunately, season 4 is when the show really starts to fly off the rails. Season 4 amounts to what is basically a series of (fairly amusing) celebrity cameos. Everyone from Brooke Shields to Catherine Deneuve to Rosie O'Donnell shows up while our three leads suffer a series of dull story lines.

Season 5 has the show move out of Miami and to LA - the plastic surgery capital of the world. This sounds like it could be interesting, but by this point, it seemed like everyone - writers, directors, and actors - had checked out and were just there for the paycheck. Besides a creepy, unexpected turn by Sharon Gless, this entire season is truly unmemorable.

The rest of the series hits a series of depressing lows before it tries to redeem itself by bringing back fan favorite, Ava, for the final two episodes. Sadly, even that feels half-baked.

Basically, bask in the brilliance of season 1&2 (and they really ARE brilliant), give 3 a watch, and then call it a day.

Original script,unexpected developments and very good acting is something that is positive in this series.The place where everything happens is South Beach,Miami.This one "cuts" deep under the surface of the plastic surgery world and dramatically discovers fragile nature of the patience's who are trying to hide their flaws by going on expensive surgeries.

Heroes of "Nip/Tuck" are doctors Sean McNamara and Christian Troy.They are also best friends and partners in popular clinic for plastic surgery which they founded together.After years of hard work they are the best in their job.Christian doesn't doubt in morality of the services they are providing to their customers and he enjoys in everything that this job offers.His friend Sean is totally opposite.Sean is not very satisfied with lots of aspects of his work and he wants to make something different in his life.His wife Julia is a housewife and a mother of two children.She is quite unhappy with her marriage and she always looks back at her life.She is even thinking of divorce and she's not happy about the relationship between her husband and son.Son Matt is in better relationship with Christian then with Sean.

People,who are working on this series,put together life of rich people with lots of problems that every man has.Like marriage and teenage problems.They also added some details from criminalistic series.And there is also humor,often "black".Script and special effects are amazing but also I have to say something about actors who are great.Dylan Walsh and Julian McMahon are leading this show to their highs.Excellent show,really knocked me off.I recommend this to everyone.Pure 10/10.

After watching the first few episodes, I was instantly hooked. "Nip/Tuck" was witty, full of black humor and it treated every character with the utmost respect. However, after the third season, it became clear the show's going downhill. Like so many other series ("The Riches", "Dead Like Me", "Bad Girls", "Lost", "Prison Break" being some of them) "Nip/Tuck" completely looses it's edge. Why? It was going so well! Maybe they should have ended it after the third season instead of dragging it to the point where it's no longer watchable. My advice: watch the first three seasons, which are a perfect ten. Even season 4 is passable, but anything after that is plain sad and you WILL be disappointed.

I have little patience for people who get bent out of shape about TV shows like "Nip/Tuck" that push the envelope when they are warned, up front, that the show contains material not suitable for the average viewer.

There is a lot of mindless, self-serving crap on Network TV today with all the reality garbage that only appeal to the lowest common denominator. Thankfully, "Nip/Tuck" is not one of them. What makes "Nip/Tuck" different is not that it seems like a cross between "ER" and "Jerry Springer," -- which it is -- but that it keeps the viewer engaged by being both off-the-wall and unpredictable.

Yes, all the characters on the show are dysfunctional (with the possible exception of Liz), but they are far more realistic than all the characters on "Father Knows Best" where everyone only had a good side.

On "Nip/Tuck," both the good sides and the dark sides of each character are brought to the fore. Irony has a field day on this show as those who you deemed to be stupid and insensitive turn out to be just the opposite when situations change.

The main problem with this series lies in where you, the viewer, make your entrance. You will be at a great loss to figure out what is going on now if you have not followed the show from its inception. Every successive show builds upon the events of all the previous ones, straight back to the pilot episode. For example, the turmoil in Sean and Julia's marriage was there from Day One as was the competitiveness between Sean and his womanizing partner, Christian Troy.

At the core of it all is Sean's ongoing identity crisis in which he has gone from a prudish wimp to a man at war with himself and everyone around him.

Although the tagline of the show is when Drs McNemara and Troy ask patients what they do not like about themselves, the underlying theme is about all the things that these two perplexed plastic surgeons hate about their lives. In trying to make others "feel better about themselves," they confront their own inadequacies, and invariably direct their hatred of themselves towards others.

Psychobabble aside, the show is damn funny, too!

I love this show so much, it's a re watch and a re watch. They don't make them like this since Dallas.

Personally, i think no other show can top Nip/tuck. with all the great characters to come together and make a great cast, the great story line, and the great atmosphere on the show really makes it a classic. i love it, and would die without it. as the carver says, beauty is a curse on the world. i recommend everybody watch this show, because you will not be disappointed! it is now coming back in its 4rth season September 5th, and if you haven't seen the others, they are out on DVD now! GO OUT AND BUY! i give this show a 10 out of 10, and give it the name of, a Disturbingly perfect drama. so once again, a perfect 10, and Lady's and gentlemen, do yourself a favor, go out and get it, NOW!

Of course I'm writing this review years and years later, but it shows you how good of a show this is and how much of an impact it had on people. Nowadays this show may not be seen as that great, but I'll always remember this show for being the most entertaining and talked about show on TV. Shows like this are what made FX popular -- maybe even this particular show.

Just start watching this in 2024 in reality this came out in the early 2000's, how did I miss this? The show is such a great series. I binged the entire series in the space of a couple of months back in the day when season episodes were 16+.

Anyways I digress, this is a must watch, the acting from all actors is phenomenal, even the special effects is brilliantly realistic especially for the decade of early 2000's.

The only negative thing I have is series 5 & 6 aren't very entertaining as the first 4. You can see why it ended after the 5 & 6 season. Season 3 is the best in my eyes.

Nevertheless it's still well worth a watch.

The show definitely pushes the limit in the very way it possibly can. So just know that if you are conservative

The shows peak is season 3. Which was probably one of the best seasons.

Once season 4 comes around it jumps the shark fast. And I'm an effort to be more risqué and breaking boundaries it follows lunacy. The plots suffer, zero character development or arc in any character. And the kid who plays the older son must be the most unfortunate actor. He jumps from one horrific trauma, dilemma, criminal act to another...all the way to the shows finish.

My recommendation would be to just watch arch season 1-3 and call it done.

I've been hooked on this show for the past 2 months. I've watched the first 3 seasons on DVD (im writing this review right before watching the season 3 finale).

Season 1 and 2 are great with some interesting story arcs. But season 3 is the darkest thus far and the one I've enjoyed immensely. The Carver storyline is just phenomenal.

Plus, Christian Troy is the heart of this show. He is such a complex character with impeccable taste in wardrobe.

I cannot wait to find out who the Carver is and look forward to viewing Season 4 on DVD.

Excellent Show!!!!!!!!

For years friends expressed amazement that I had never watched "Nip/Tuck" -- just my kind of show, they insisted. And so, spurred by the recent assault of pre-season publicity, I decided to pay a first-time visit to Nip/Tuck last night. I was expecting sly and witty satire. What I found instead (in repeat episodes that focused on a serial mangler and a deranged racist) was a puerile, unrelenting torrent of violence and sadism. Robotic and/or hysterical acting, moronic plot contortions, and enough deep shadow (in Miami, yet) to make Edgar Ulmer spin like a top. It was like watching Joel Schumacher direct Ricky Martin as Hannibal Lecter. Nice to know what my friends think of my taste.