The always hilarious Jennifer Coolidge adds laughs in her few scenes as a ditzy "Hearts" actress. "Nip/Tuck" is now the "Love Boat" on Botox, there are so many guest spots. Cooper's preening and prima donna Stone bullies everyone on the "Hearts" set, including Platt's overwhelmed producer Freddy Prune.Ĭooper and Platt are just two in a long list of on-target guest stars. ![]() The riotous "Hearts 'n' Scalpel" scenes are the best part of the premiere, however, thanks to the work of Bradley Cooper and Oliver Platt. It's the silly-yet-serious commentary that this show used to pull off so well. His jealousy leads to some fiery one-upmanship by both doctors, including dueling surgeries on rival Marilyn Monroe impersonators in Episode 2. Alpha male Christian, not used to existing in Sean's shadow, can't take it. In brief: A daring drama takes a gory, but compelling, look at the world of plastic surgery.When Sean and Christian play extras on "Hearts," Sean earns fans, a recurring role and a line of new patients for their real practice. That’s a truth to which we as a society have a long history of closing our eyes. I like the way this series cuts to the moral bone and ties so much of the evil men and women do to our culture’s excessive materialism, commercialism and obsession with appearances. (The gators like ham more than human flesh, one character explains.) And it gets even gorier.īut, just as it was with The Shield, the gore here mostly seems justified to make the series’ larger points – in this case, about human flesh and the horrors that can be visited upon it by doctors and others not listening to their better angels. A corpse is “sweetened” with 10 hams tied to it and then left at the edge of a swamp for the alligators. Another man having liposuction of his midsection is killed on an operating table, and the liquid, yellow fat being sucked from his belly spews wildly around the room, drenching everyone. One man is tortured with almost a dozen injections – one after another – of botox into his face. Naked female bodies are marked up like sides of beef to show where various incisions will be made. The experience almost kills them.Īs for the viewing experience, members of the audience need to know that they will see repeated close-ups of flesh being sliced and blood flowing freely. He and his partner have their faces rubbed in it until they can no longer look away. Troy can’t resist the money, but this time, he can’t avoid the stench of where it comes from either. In the pilot, Troy’s greed allows all sorts of trouble through the front door of McNamara/Troy in the person of a Colombian drug dealer who wants to have his appearance radically altered so that he can avoid law-enforcement officials. Neither is quite at the stage of Tony Soprano panic attacks, but Sean, at least, is having major psychological issues. They built the business from nothing, and now at the start of middle age when they should be enjoying the fruits of the good life, things are starting to come unraveled from the inside out. Sean McNamara and Christian Troy, best friends since medical school and now partners in McNamara/Troy, a thriving plastic-surgery practice in Miami. ![]() Nip/Tuck stars Dylan Walsh and Julian McMahon as Drs. This is a series with the capacity to both entertain and make you think – if you don’t miss too much, that is, by turning away from the screen or closing your eyes because of all the violence and gore. There’s a cultural resonance, too, in the way that concepts of beauty, appearance, affluence, abundance and transformation in American life are wisely explored. The script features a skillfully crafted variation of the buddy-film narrative that takes two male partners, breaks them up and then brings them back together once they’ve been bloodied and wizened. I thought I couldn’t care less about the milieu until I saw the pilot. Nip/Tuck is a medical series set in the world of plastic surgery in Miami’s South Beach. And, hard as it might be to imagine, the network has an even more graphic, bloody and daring drama premiering tonight. That willingness to take risks helped The Shield, FX’s intensely violent and morally ambiguous cop drama, cut through the clutter two years ago. ![]() Baltimore Sun eNewspaper Home Page Close MenuĬable channel FX is not afraid to shock or offend.
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