The series begins its run in Miami, where college buddies-turned-medical partners Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh) and Christian Troy (Julian McMahon) run one of the city’s most elite plastic surgery practices. 'We live in an out-there world.WIRED Binge-Watching Guide: Halt and Catch Fire Arrow 'Every plastic surgery has been done,' he says. Nobody had seen surgery that graphic.'īut he takes exception to the constant description of Nip/Tuck being 'out there' in the surgical scenes. Last year, it was hours dealing with them. 'We've had less interference from the network and advertisers,' he says of the second season. The furor over television indecency since the Super Bowl hasn't affected the sometimes outlandish Nip/Tuck.

Murphy, a former colleague of mine at The Miami Herald, was finishing up the ninth episode. The life coach will emerge as a nemesis for Julia and a villain from the femme fatale mold. During this season, bad-boy Christian and good-guy Sean will seem to trade positions as they decide whether to remain partners. Redgrave appears in the first three episodes and returns later in the 16-episode season. He described her as a gracious pro on the set, but adds, 'She's very opinionated. 'She gets to be wicked, sexual - she loved it,' Murphy says. He thought he was living in a fairy tale when the renowned Redgrave asked to play her daughter's mother. Murphy compares his show to a Grimm's fairy tale because the message is often: Be careful what you wish for. My problem with the show is it takes you into the operating room, then cuts away.' But Murphy has nothing good to say about reality series, such as The Swan, that tout plastic surgery. He sees plastic surgeons as 'artists with flesh,' and the show peppers in more positive cases.

'I maintain that we have to show the surgeries,' he says in a phone interview.

Nip/Tuck is not a subtle show, and creator Ryan Murphy wants it that way. A life coach (Famke Janssen) will throw the McNamara family into more confusion by seducing the teen son. Later episodes introduce other intriguing patients, notably the African woman (Aisha Tyler) who was a victim of genital mutilation but longs for sexual satisfaction. The premiere contrasts her quest with the problems of a horribly disfigured woman, who confides, 'Aging isn't a curse.

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