Nip/Tuck - Episodes 1 & 2/Season 6 - Advance TV Review

The aspect of "Nip/Tuck" involves nihilism personified. The key to these two doctors is dictating how they deal with the reality and their conception of what that is. Unlike a show like “Royal Pains” where the lives of the characters have a sardonic wistfullness about them, the key with the doctors of this show is that they are dealing with their mortality without being aware of it. One of them is about to lose everything he has because he failed to understand the impact of his actions on his female compatriots. However the business angle of his practice does not faze him as long as he has his confidence whereas his partner in this debacle is beseiged by elements of guilt and repression. He goes so far as to become insomniac which leads to bigger problems including a would-be overdose.The first episode of the new season involves the downfall of their practice in the new economy. They bring in a new playboy-type plastic surgeon on call (sort of like the private physician of "Royal Pains" with less scruples). Our antithetical heroes think they can live up to this low style of selling that the new kid on the block prevails with high ending results. Look for their infomercial to show all is not right in the world. In the meantime their lives are falling apart.Sean McNamara (played by Dylan Walsh) cannot maintain his relationship with one of his female employees because he fails to read her correctly. He makes an incessant mistake which causes him to lash out and places him in a much more dangerous situation with another girl. The implications oddly enough are reminscent of “Fight Club”. Meanwhile Christian Troy (played by Julian McMahon) tries to tell his partner to come back from the brink but he himself cannot understand where his faults lie especially in regards to his own behavior. He really needs to take a fall but the question is what will cause it. There is a catalyst at the end of Episode 2 which shows this is both on and off the books as if the writers brought him to the brink but weren't sure if they should make him fall off. That's the rub.Having never watched the show before the Season 6 openers, the opinion of this reviewer is "How did the characters survive this long?" as the risk taken doesn't always seem to bring reward. Bad boys have fun but can they survive? Life is too short especially if your job is fixing somebody else's problems, however superficial they might be.