Anal probes, I feel I should also note, are surprisingly enjoyable affairs, and certainly not the ferocious onslaughts that those folks who crop up in the woods in Alabama now and again might like to tell you.
Put your damn pants on and stop your filthy fucking lying, is what The Duke would command for you to do.
Nip / Tuck is a series as potentially addictive as the practices what it depicts; ie, the plastic surgery. Just as these folks return again and again and for to get just a little bit extra lopped off the old buttocks, necks, cheeks and so on, so The Duke finds that he needs just that one more fix, man. Just gotta find out what happens next, is all. Just wanna see if his willy was repairable. Just wanna know if he sleeps with that woman or if, no, he's gonna have a crisis of conscience all of a damn sudden, and anyway, he can't get an erection for love nor money.
It's kinda like a less morbid Six Feet Under, with the corpse-painting being replaced with the tummy-tucking.
All sorts of kooky nonsense goes on, like a fella what might be a gangster wants his appearance completely altered, or two twins want to look different, or one of the doctor's sons wants a circumcision.
There's also loads of the family trauma, and the arguments and all kinds of domestic hoopla, and some of these squabblings are almost as difficult to watch as the much-touted surgery sequences. It's as uncomfortable to see two folks trying in vain to communicate for ten minutes, as it is seeing a fella get his arse cut open and then a tube shoved up it and so on.
Again, if only Bobby Ewing had took a second for to get his arse cut open and then a tube shoved up it. That right there would have been the perfect way to bring him back into the series, too. They could have said all about he didn't die, he faked his death and then changed his identity with the help of some arse implants. But no, we'll just have him step out of a shower like not a damn thing happened.
Article comments
1 - Padhraic
Try "The Wire", Also a tad addicting.
2 - Jim Carruthers
I haven't seen Nip/Tuck, but I do recommend a series on FX, "Rescue Me", which is written, produced and stars Denis Leary as a NYC fire fighter. It is profanely funny, and while it does get a bit speechy, so far, four eps is fairly consistent, and manages to manage the mawkishness. Leary has conversations with dead people, including his cousin who died at the WTC, ala Six Feet Under, and since it is from a cable net, they can use real language and stuph.
I also second "The Wire" which is brilliant, but hard to describe (cops in Baltimore are trying to convict a drug dealer using wiretaps, but that just doesn't do it justice)
Also recommended on DVD is "Oz" which is about a buncha fellas in prison (and Mrs. Soprano, too).
3 - Douglas Mays
Nip/Tuck is an awesome show!!!! Intense, humorous, dramatic. Say the episode having to remove heroin from breast implants of a 'mule' at gun point of the movers, in the operating room! etc......
I can't miss it. Wife and I are addicted.
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4 - Douglas Mays
OH MAN!!!! Did anyone see tonight's season ending episode (10/5/04)???? Intense. Tonights show lended itself great craft in the art of television. I am blown away. If you have been following the show enuf to know what is going on, you'll be amazed....
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