Thursday, February 4, 2010

Where TV Shows Go to Die

I'm watching Nip/Tuck right now. An easy show to watch and blog during. I'm not proud of the fact that I watch it...it's more due to an OCD to finish what I start, and the show was decent when it started. Now, it's eroded into a gross mix of soap opera and sensationalist plot lines, a shadow of its former self. Not to mention that it's about three seasons past flatline. Now in the final episodes, the show has gone to the very fringes of absurdity with story lines so crazy that I'm convinced the writers are suffering fits of paranoid delusions in their own life.

So what happened? When it started it was just about on the edge plastic surgeons who took on tricky surgeries. Somewhere along the way, it devolved into pornography, serial killers and so many family lines that it feels like the Brady Bunch, Modern Family and Arrested Development jumped in the sack together.

And as dark and twisted as it has gotten, every week I'm reminded that it was created by the same guy responsible for the up-beat, fantastic and rather "normal" Glee. Now how the hell does that make any sense?

Gotta run...Christian and Sean are about to perform a surgery to give a chimp some thumbs.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Nip tuck is one of my fav shows, but I agree that it has definitely gone downhill the past couple seasons. These people have more serial killers and weirdo things happen to them than anyone else on the planet. And they are the most incestuous messed up people ever! I'm a little behind on the current (last?) season, because I didn’t realize it started only weeks after the last season ended. But so far christian has slept with his super newly dead wife's mom. But wait, that dead wife is also the mom of his grandson. Because she was married to his son. Who he raises with his best friend. Who also slept with/used to date his wife. But that's ok, because he also used to sleep with/date his best friend's wife, one of which times begot the son they share. Ya. At least they were making fun of how christian let himself go..after the big deal they made about him being this god of a man earlier in the show's life. He still has more sex than anyone all the time, and unprotected too. Lol.
ps i also love glee.