Distributor:
Warner Bros Certificate: Not Rated
| Region 1 | 638 minutes
Series Creator: Ryan Murphy Extras: Yes
ANYONE
IN IT WE KNOW?
Julian
McMahon, John Hensley, Valerie Cruz, Joely Richardson, Dylan Walsh
WHAT’S
IT ABOUT THEN?
Nip/Tuck
peels back the layers of the
world of two cosmetic surgeons
based in Miami's South Beach, Dr
Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh) is
the surgeon with something of a
conscience who shies away from
some of the more drastic
requests his patients make
whilst Dr Christian Troy (Julian
McMahan) is the coke snorting,
out for a good time and more
than willing to overstep the
boundaries surgeon.
Both of the doctors are going
through something of mid life
crises, McNamara is in danger of
losing his wife (Joely
Richardson) and his two kids,
Troy seems happy to climb into
bed (or out of it) with any
woman who comes his way.
SO
IS IT ANY GOOD?
As
a look at the vacuous modern day celebrity obsessed world Nip/Tuck is
fantastic, full of clever and knowing dialogue, however there is
probably too much incredibly graphic footage of plastic surgery
operations which looks incredibly realistic (although to be fair this is
a series about plastic surgeons so what else should we expect).
The
series is also very quick moving with lots
of fluid hand held camera movements.
This
five disc set from Warner Bros is certainly not a series for the feint
of heart, in
the morally bankrupt pilot episode alone there was copious drug taking,
graphic sex scenes, paedophilia, graphic violence, wanton botox
injections, dead bodies eaten by alligators, the mob and money
laundering and even a character who looks like Michael Jackson.
Despite
it's high sex, violence, hands over the face moments Nip/Tuk is very
very entertaining, McMahon is a revelation (last time we saw him he was
playing a drab weedy character on Australian soap opera Home and Away)
and Dylan Walsh is of course his usual excellent self.
Full
of outrageous moments and archly satirical dialogue Nip/Tuck is a must
see.
ANY
SPECIAL FEATURES?
Three
excellent featurettes examining various aspects of the show, one on the
show, one on the effects and one on real life plastic surgeons, a
bloopers reel called Severed Parts, stacks of deleted scenes from
various episodes, a music video (called A Perfect Lie) and a trailer.
One
thing also worthy of mention is the fantastic holographic cover.
