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Nip/Tuck
Season 1
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The first season of Nip/Tuck premiered on July 23, 2003 and concluded on October 21, 2003. It consisted of 13 episodes.
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13 Episodes
Pilot
E1
Pilot
Old friends Sean (the family man) and Christian (the playboy) are partners in a plastic surgery office. Their relationship is under fire after Christian operates on a Colombian drug lord who pays him in drug money. Sean's family life is also in upheaval, and he is headed for a mid-life crisis.
Mandi/Randi
E2
Mandi/Randi
Twin sisters want plastic surgery done to look different from each other. Sean moves out so he can experience life as a single man. Matt decides to try and perform a circumcision on himself after his girlfriend sees his penis. Christian is plagued with thoughts of Julia.
Nanette Babcock
E3
Nanette Babcock
Sean and Julia discover Matt has tried to circumcise himself. The business is sued by a faithful client after Sean accidentally leaves a surgical tool inside of her body. Meanwhile, Christian and Grace struggle with a mentally unstable patient.
Sophia Lopez
E4
Sophia Lopez
Wallis Forsythe is a pornography mogul who meets Christian at a party and agrees to send some business his way. Merrill Bobolit is a hack surgeon who's more successful than Sean and Christian because of his willingness to take on any client. Both team up for Sean and Christian's practice for Forsythe's easy money and Bobolit's sleazy competition to inject a dose of conflict into Sean and Christian's partnership.
Kurt Dempsey
E5
Kurt Dempsey
An ex-lover returns and leads Christian to a sexaholics meeting while Sean and Julia deal with an unexpected pregnancy.
Megan O'Hara
E6
Megan O'Hara
Someone is vandalizing Christian's possessions, and he attempts to find the culprit. A chemotherapy patient who is considering breast implants brings excitement to Sean's life, and Matt finds himself in a threesome with Vanessa and Riley.
Cliff Mantegna
E7
Cliff Mantegna
Christian's difficulties with Kristin are exacerbated when his feelings for Julia are revealed. Jude is hired as an intern, to sexy and disastrous results. Matt is caught mid-threesome by Julia.
Cara Fitzgerald
E8
Cara Fitzgerald
Matt accidentally hits Cara with Henry's car, and calls Sean in to help when Cara's mother, for religious reasons, refuses drugs and surgery to treat her injuries. Christian discovers that a patient used plastic surgery to hide a revolting crime and it brings up terrible memories of his own childhood.
Sophia Lopez II
E9
Sophia Lopez II
Sean and Jude's respective secrets are revealed, and Merril offers Christian an interesting trade: Kimber for a Lamborghini. Christian accepts, but Kimber discovers the truth and exacts a small revenge.
Adelle Coffin
E10
Adelle Coffin
Sean and Christian learn that they have to take a test in order to continue practicing. Sean and Megan visit a doctor to learn that there is nothing they can do for her. Mrs. Grubman returns to get an operation on her and her fiancé. Christian passes his test, but Sean walks out. Megan commits suicide. Julia finds out about Sean's affair with Megan.
Montana / Sassy / Justice
E11
Montana / Sassy / Justice
Ms. Caine wants an operation to get rid of her "cankles". Sean and Julia are still on the outs. Christian learns he's going to be a father. Julia steals Christian's brush to determine if he's the father of Matt. Sean and Grace learn that Ms. Caine has multiple personalities. Cara recovers and gets close with Matt and Henry. Henry develops feelings for her. Cara asks Matt to the prom. Henry tells Matt that he is going to confess to Cara what happened.
Antonia Ramos
E12
Antonia Ramos
Sean and Christian are reunited with an old friend, Julia bonds with Sofia Lopez, and Christian and Gina clash over their differences in opinion concerning Gina's pregnancy.
Escobar Gallardo
E13
Escobar Gallardo
Christian learns that Kimber and Merril are engaged. Escobar continues to have the surgeons do things for him. Liz is sent to Bermuda after being shot in the leg by one of Escobar's people. Sean goes to kill Escobar. Escobar makes a deal with Sean; a new face for their freedom. Christian learns, in the delivery room, that he is not the father of Gina's baby. Julia returns to get the paternity test she had done a while ago. The doctors do surgery on Escobar, and give him the face of a criminal even higher than Gallardo on the Most Wanted List - Armand Ortiz. Ortiz is arrested at the airport for bank robbing and killing a federal agent.
Cast of Season 1
Dylan Walsh
Sean McNamara
Julian McMahon
Christian Troy
Joely Richardson
Julia McNamara
John Hensley
Matt McNamara
Season 1 Reviews
Orlando Sentinel
Hal Boedeker
Patching together such wildly different parts sounds like a monster's assembly. You see the stitches almost immediately, and yet Nip/Tuck looks better and better as it goes along, taking twisty turns in dynamic style.
Los Angeles Times
Brian Lowry
Both troubling and welcome... Nip/Tuck both wallows in these shallow and twisted lives, while portraying them with warts and then some.
Variety
Phil Gallo
Lack of likable characters may be show's downfall, though if future hourlongs focus on ethical and personal dilemmas rather than pile them on as occurs in the pilot, Nip/Tuck has some promise.
Newsday
Diane Werts
Murphy's concept in its basics is already beautiful. But he pushes the show to be a breathtaking knockout. Like some plastic surgery patients, Nip/Tuck initially gets such a pleasing result that it doesn't seem to know when to stop.
TIME Magazine
James Poniewozik
Nip/Tuck is best when it indulges its gleeful, dark humor about vanity, self-hatred and the essential meatness of the body
The Atlantic
Joe Reid
A lot of scenes of the two main characters speaking in very blunt terms about the themes of the show (DID YOU KNOW AMERICANS ARE OBSESSED WITH UNACHIEVABLE BEAUTY IDEALS?).
New York Daily News
David Bianculli
It's more artifice than art, and in everything from the performances to the dramatic contrivances, you can see the strain. You watch, and sometimes you smile or squirm -- but you don't believe.
Washington Post
Tom Shales
Nip/Tuck seems to stab itself in the heart with overkill, and the notion that it's going to examine real issues about self-image in a makeover culture gets lost in the melee.
San Francisco Chronicle
Tim Goodman
Full of such visual shock-and-awe tactics, fueling FX's reputation for bending the rules of standards-and-practices. That, however, doesn't mean there's substance underneath.
New York Post
Linda Stasi
What's good here is the acting, and some of the story lines. But they are overshadowed by over-the-top gory surgeries and preposterous situations.
Entertainment Weekly
Ken Tucker
If FX's signature series The Shield is NYPD Blue on Rogaine and steroids, its new entry Nip/Tuck is Six Feet Underdone.
AV Club
Nathan Rabin
Nip/Tuck is gloriously unafraid of operatic gestures and Grand Guignol touches, but its core relationships are drawn with surprising depth and subtlety.
Newsweek
David Ansen
The pilot is so insanely violent (a torture scene involving Botox is especially icky) that it obscures some snappy writing and two fine performances by McMahon and Walsh. We'll keep watching--but either the blood goes or we do.
People Magazine
Terry Kelleher
McMahon is perfect as a satyr with a seductive smile... Walsh fares well in the difficult role of a man who swings back and forth between self-righteousness and complete moral confusion.
Boston Phoenix
Joyce Millman
Nip/Tuck is put together with wit, style and unexpected flashes of wisdom and heart between the acrobatic sex (hey, can they do this stuff on basic cable?) and glossy, grisly operating-room scenes.
Baltimore Sun
David Zurawik
I like the way this series cuts to the moral bone and ties so much of the evil men and women do to our culture's excessive materialism, commercialism and obsession with appearances.
USA Today
Robert Bianco
Gross, engrossing and ultimately and utterly fearless, Nip/Tuck is a show about the price we pay to keep up appearances - and about the effort a show has to go to these days to break through TV's clutter.
New York Times
Alessandra Stanley
It is a dark satire that manages to be as engrossing as a soap opera.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Melanie McFarland
Slick, trendy, at times great but largely uneven... Nip/Tuck isn't for the squeamish, and it isn't pretty. But what we saw was alluring and smart enough.
New York Magazine/Vulture
John Leonard
As dramatic series on FX go, this isn't quite the head-smack that The Shield was, but compared to summer television on the networks, it's at least in the vicinity of St. Elsewhere, and compared to Banzai on Fox, it's The Magic Mountain.
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