It's Christmas, and you know what that means. It's time for masked serial slashers to reveal their true identities!
The two-hour season finale of "Nip/Tuck" airs tonight at 10 p.m. and we have to admit, we're a little surprised that the season is already over. We suppose this is what you get when a network doesn't pad its seasons with repeat after repeat. (Not that we're complaining. We LOVE it when we get to delete Season Passes from our TiVo.)
"Nip/Tuck" has fallen from the critics' graces this season, and we're a little confused by that. What's confusing is how it was ever a critics' darling to begin with. Now, we've enjoyed the series immensely, and have seen every episode. But we've always thought of the show as...trashy. Beautiful people, and lots of sex, sick humor, and gratuitous gore; cheap thrills all. We never really bought into notion that beneath the veneer of sleaze the show was actually incredibly deep and profound. Sure, it's had its touching moments. But at the heart of it, it's just tawdry entertainment, excellently done. So, when critics started harping on the series for going "too far" we began to wonder: Just what show had THEY been watching for the past two years?
We'll agree that the show has let the whole "Carver" plot go on a little too long, but damned if we aren't excited to finally find out who that masked man (or woman! Or BOTH!) is. (Our money's on the transexual character played by Famke Janssen last season. She's been suspiciously absent for most of this year...) And if MySpace weren't annoying enough already, you can also add the Carver to your friends list should you not have enough weirdos and/or "clever" marketing ploys on there already.
If you sit on the, "I could not care less about the Carver or that stupid show" side of the fence, no worries. There's a rerun of the Christmas episode of "My Name is Earl" at 9 p.m. on NBC, and UPN continues their "Everybody Hates Chris-mas" marathon of nightly episodes of "Everybody Hates Chris" tonight at 8 p.m.
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