Word to the wise: Don't eat during episodes of Nip/Tuck. At least not during Season Three. With each season, they seem to be continually pushing the envelope with how far they can detail-ise blood and gore for TV consumption. This round, they've broken out the macro lens with stylised, slow motion close-ups. Perhaps they've been bitten by the CSI bug.
The rest of this article will describe fairly graphic scenes and possible spoilers.
I just know the last couple of times I tried to pick up a sandwich during the episode it proved to be quite the challenge. How much do you truly need to show the skin around a person's midsection getting jerked about by the surgeon's liposuction tube violently hovering beneath?
While making screen caps for this review, I was very tempted to capture all the gory, grotesque bits, but decided against it in favour of good manners. It seemed downright rude to plaster pictures of, for example, the face transplant they so matter-of-factly portrayed, all over this page. And don't get me started on the poor girl's face when her body decided to reject the donor face tissue. (If you're cringing, don't watch Season Three.)
Moving off from the previous season, they're back with the serial rapist, the "Carver" storyline. Still slashing people's faces and leaving cryptic notes behind, he's progressed to a stage worthy only of the show's own leap off propriety's platform.
The Carver, creepy white mask in tow, has now progressed to killing his victims, writing on walls with their blood, and kidnapping the girlfriend of one of the protagonists. He — hold your breath — reverses all ten plastic surgeries she's ever had sans anesthesia, and sends her boyfriend, Christian Troy, a parcel with her silicone breast implants in it, covered in blood.
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1 - cliff dougherty
Anyone know if there is a CD of the music played during the operating scenes in Nip/Tuck?