Sean McNamara’s (Dylan Walsh) stabbing by his psychotic former PR agent. Season Five, Part Two begins in Los Angeles with the after-effects of Dr. On the one hand, the show is long past the glory days of its critically-acclaimed second season and ratings behemoth third, but on the other, it has been throwing grotesque and shocking images onto the screen since its first episode, which kicked off a show about the daily-lives of Miami plastic surgeons by having its protagonists “flush the child’s gerbil” and “dump the gangster’s body in the Everglades.”īut this set of episodes is still pretty crazy. ![]() But to be fair, Nip/Tuck is long past the point at which it can be accused of using crazy stunts to pull in the viewers and avoid stagnation. Season Five, Part Two, you see, offers plenty of bizarrely memorable moments to be burned into its watchers’ memories. ![]() “Chainsawing off the mammary”, for example, or “shagging the furniture”. After watching Season five, Part Two of FX’s Nip/Tuck, however, it becomes clear that even more ridiculous verb-object phrases are available to represent the phenomena. Thanks to the ’70s (pop culture reference-filled) sitcom Happy Days, “jumping the shark” has become the term most used to describe a television program’s leap from its own well-loved formula into a world of anything-for-ratings absurdity.
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