Yes, it's a soap opera, but the writing and the characters will break your heart they're so intensely and humanly drawn. The acting is top-notch and the extraordinary cast lives up to the marvelous, if over-the-top storylines they're given. Sheer brilliance all around. And kudos to an amazing soundtrack on top of it all.

*** NOTE: Due to graphic medical scenes, violence, language, nudity and sexual situations, this show is appropriate for adult audiences ONLY. ***


Personal:

The WriterGroupie hadn't planned on watching Nip/Tuck. She has no stomach for medical shows and this is the possibly the most graphic medical drama seen on television. She still can't watch any of the surgery scenes (which thankfully have been shortened and toned down a bit since the extreme blood and guts of the pilot episode) and turns her back to the TV and just listens to the dialogue during these sequences. Even aside from the graphic moments, medical dramas have never held any appeal for the WriterGroupie, so she'll admit, she had no plans to get hooked on this show. But the night it premiered, the WriterGroupie was channel surfing and stopped at a very simple scene of a man and a woman standing together talking (Julian McMahon and Joely Richardson, FYI). Again, nothing that would normally grab her, but the sheer raw intensity of those two people, the utter vulnerability between them, sucked her in until she couldn't stop watching and she knew she had discovered her new favorite show. And far from the usual quality drop between the pilot episode and the rest of a series, due to the obvious involvement of the show creator in all aspects of the show, the later episodes continued to get better and better culminating in an amazing season finale, all in the course of 13 episodes.