BY MIKEY MIGO
Commitment is a cruel beast. I’m a “completist” so to speak. I really like watching television series from episode one to the last episode. It’s almost ceremonious for me. Some shows I love and some shows I try to forget about. Most of the shows are the HBO and Showtime ones so it’s around a dozen episodes that come once a year. I binge on them and get them all out of the way in marathon form. It’s just what I do and what I find relaxing. I’m sure I’m not the only anal-retentive viewer out there. I just spent 100 long episodes with the 2003-2010 drama Nip/Tuck. 100 episodes. Wow… that was a lot. I’m going to rant, but I’m also going to make sure I post nothing too big. Basically, NO SPOILERS.
This show is created by the guy who created Glee, Ryan Murphy. I don’t know the man personally, but it just seems like he’s not a good person. He seems whiney and self centered. The way he has handled criticism and ANY negative feedback is lame, tasteless, and douchey. Whatever though. I don’t watch Glee and I don’t plan on it. I did however watch the entire run of Nip/Tuck. It was such an awesome show! Seriously. I recommend it to anyone looking for a constant mind trip through a crazy world. It was like a soap opera on crack. Every time you felt uncomfortable, shocked, or angry the next huge twist was right around the corner. In entertainment people always say certain shows will “jump the shark” when it goes “too far”. This show jumped the shark consistently about once every three or four shows. It was weird at first, but you get over the fact that show has rose to a level of obscenity and obscurity pretty quickly. I’m not going to get deep into the storylines of the show, the characters, or really anything. I don’t want to spoil ANYTHING because no matter how much of a bitter taste the end left in my mouth the show has some really great moments. In a VERY general description, the show centers around two friends working together as plastic surgeons. One is a tight ass with a family and the other is a lothario type. They love each other, they hate each other, they might love-love each other, and they hate each other, and so on. It’s a really deep bond and we see deeper and deeper into it. The sexahollic one gets in trouble and the tight ass saves him. The tight ass gets in trouble and then the sexahollic one saves him. The first few seasons had some really cool stories and mind blowers, but the last two or so seasons really let me down. They just weren’t on par. The characters, seemingly out of nowhere, lost all their personality and depth. They became stereotypes and generally unlikeable. It felt like Ryan Murphy gave up or ran out of ideas. A lot of stuff felt rehashed over and over. The same stories kept happening with very little character development. I watched all 100 episodes. Like I said, I’m a completist. I’m not upset I put in the commitment. In a perfect world this show would have been five or six seasons on Showtime or HBO. It was still a fun show to watch and even at its worse it was still better than most other shows. I just wish it would have ended with the same creativity and inspired motivation as it begun with.
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