You can't say the FX network isn't daring.

With some of the most innovative series on television today — including Rescue Me, The Shield and the upcoming Dirt, which promises to be as uncompromising in its material as the other offerings — FX is the network to watch.  Or not.  Some of their material is not to everyone's taste.

Take the brazen Nip/Tuck.  It's the story of two plastic surgeons, Christian and Sean, best friends since college, who are in practice together in Florida.  Christian Troy (Julian McMahon) is a hot, narcissistic playboy who appears to have doggie-style sex every night.  ("I thought we agreed," Sean screams at him, "No boob jobs for sex!").

One of his lastest conquests is his somewhat disturbed psychiatrist (Brooke Shields).  Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh) is a family man with three children, although for the moment, the daughter is never seen or mentioned.  Reconciled with his wife (Jolie Richardson), the couple has a new baby born with ectrodactyly — which results in fused bones in the hands and feet — on whom Sean plans to performs a series of operations.

In its soap opera-ish first years, Sean was dismayed to learn that his son Matt isn't his son at all, but Christian's.  Matt is a strange-looking boy whose appearance can remind people of Michael Jackson - I don't see it, but I've heard that stated.  That's wierd because the actor, John Hensley, and Jackson share a common birthday.  So if you were born on August 29th, you might be on the bizarre side, though I'm not sure that theory will really hold up.

Matt's done it all.  He's tried to cut off his penis, he dated a sex change (a friend's mom) and later a blonde white supremacist who tried to bleach her face because she thought her mother had black blood in her family.  Now he's joined Scientology.  The side benefit is that he can hit on the reformed former porn star Kimber (Kelly Carlson), who has slept with both his daddies.  Kimber rejected him at first, but after reuniting with former fiancee Christian — yes, he planned to settle down — only to be totally rejected after sex, she's decided to take Matt up on his offer.  Film at 11.  And film on Nip/Tuck means you get to see everyone's ass multiple times and possibly some very graphic, gross, bloody surgery.  If you faint at the site of blood, this may not be your show.

The last couple of episodes guest-starred Rosie O'Donnell in a hysterical turn as a $315 million Power Ball winner who gets full body lipo and, of course, the de rigeur romp with Christian, for which she paid him $400,000.  He needed the money to pay off Jacqueline Bissett - it's a long story.  But her character, Dawn Budge, finds out it's lonely at the top.  Her trailer trash family — consisting of her second husband and her daughter -- desert Dawn, stating she was more fun before she had money.