FX comes up with Nip/Tuck, a sexy, violent series about a pair of plastic surgeons in South Beach. Nip/Tuck is the satiric brainchild of Ryan Murphy, who earlier gave us Popular. As he was then, he is assisted now by executive producers Greer Shephard and Michael M. Robin. The writers and directors are mostly veterans of quality series television. For the next three episodes, we are promised identical twins who would rather look different, a surgical instrument left behind inside a post-op patient, anger-management classes to deal with unresolved gerbil issues, a porn star, and a transvestite in Nip Tuck. In other words, the usual. Have I mentioned Roma Maffia? She’s the anesthesiologist, who would run for the hills if there were any. Valerie Cruz will appear next week as the gorgeous shrink the guys hire to screen out crazies. There is almost as much violence as there is sex, not to mention unsaturated fats. As dramatic series on FX go, this isn’t quite the head-smack that The Shield was, but compared to summer television on the networks, it’s at least in the vicinity of St. Elsewhere, and compared to Banzai on Fox, it’s The Magic Mountain.
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