Cows On the Couch

So Nip Tuck Season 6 started like a  last week.   I watched it today .. and as usual loved the show.   For those who love the sex.. and the gossips.. and beautiful ppl.. go watch the tv show – 6 season in running.  Gotta be doing something right eh.

Nip Tuck is it. One of the reasons I love it is because every episode shows all the screwed up things that we are capable of in society. Yet, the friendship between Sean and Christian makes this show powerful. In most of the other shows on TV (trout liver) the unstoppable force in their themes is bull shet or obnoxiously condescending. Whether it be on a news channel or comedy or disillusioned reality tv it’s all alike. But in Nip Tuck the driving beam of the theme is a friendship that stands above all the freaky things that happen to two plastic surgeons. Sean knows that Christian is the father of his oldest kid and then dated the mother for awhile when Sean and her divorced. (Julia is completely my least favorite character of the show lol). And this was only just a couple episodes! Yet, even when Sean gave up on Miami and chose to practice w/o Christian in LA, the same episode had Christian right beside him again. On the end of the first season that I started watching the show (end of 2006 I think)Sean and Christian was posing by the Hollywood sign.
I’ve really only seen a few examples in my life where family or friends last strong and survive some big hits. And that kind of perpetual loyalty and forgiveness lasting for many seasons is as rare a thing on TV as it is in life. And though there is just an endless series of crap between Christian, Sean, their son Matt and gay nurse/Christin’s new wife, Liz they always end up showing compassion on each other, regardless of the scandal. Although I am happy that Julia (Sean’s gay x wife) is becoming less of an extra I wonder what happened to their two youngest, insecure Annie or lobster hand Conner?
I always felt this was the one flaw of the show. Of all the conflict and resolution throughout the seasons, the conflict of how little real attention Sean & Julia (she was wearing a bending corset in 2000’s Patriot) show their two youngest. This is probably just overlooked by the writers. Invisible youth. In one a dream episode where Sean dreams of the whole cast in the future, Conner’s first adult self seen is him talking to a shrink. Annie’s older but less mature character was recovering from an abortion and got busted for attempting to rip off some pain meds at the hospital where her brother was in surgery.I mean, the conflict there is obvious, right? I would say that this would be a more meaningful resolution than a lot of the other scenarios they tackle.