Nip / Tuck - Schönheit hat ihren Preis

1st season - 85% - Everything is visible on the surface. All the glitz, all the superficiality or selfishness. What remains hidden beneath all the modifications or disguises, we must uncover ourselves. Secrets, past, true nature, and the most hidden desires. Murphy's clever series uses a seemingly simple but effective weapon to tell the story. It repels with disgusting operations and shocks with sexual unrestraint, but upon closer inspection, it begins to show the true face and with it the problems we all have. We just never saw them in the series, never shared them or were afraid to think of them as solvable matters. And no, I don't really mean cosmetic physical modifications. 2nd season - 90% - No one has ever delved so deep into the darker corners of the human psyche. What has been discovered in just two seasons takes my breath away to this day. Transsexuality, incest, rape, infidelity, addiction, pedophilia - and yet all believable, like scenes taken from our own lives or the hustle outside our room. The rating did not reach the absolute peak because the difficulties and suffering of the characters sometimes hurt too much, but I can hardly tame my enthusiasm. The new characters redefine the term "advance the plot," and both the intoxicating Ava Moore and the terrifying Carver are characters that can create an almost immortal plot in just a few minutes. The highlight is the final sequence of scenes from the finale, which can hardly be watched just once. 3rd season - 100% - Carver's threat like a dark cloud, relationships that bring more trouble than joy, and ongoing mental masochism that prove these heroes do all the good things just to have their problems fall from even greater heights next time. I have definitively given up on a happy ending, but McNamara/Troy still takes my breath away more and more, and in the third season, they reach for absolute measures for the first time. 4th season - 100% - We have experienced so much with them, but the depths of depression can still be reached even deeper. Our top plastic surgeons from Miami are surrounded, without exaggeration, by mental darkness coming from all sides. It starts with hallucinations, continues with blackmail, and ends with a sense of hopelessness. And then, after falling in love with them for four seasons, I can only fear what lies ahead for the main characters. Because in Miami, their journey towards mental rebirth is far from over. 5th season - 80% - They can make fun of everyone around them, and this time even of the dream factory itself. And maybe even themselves. Los Angeles brings the twisted series Hearts and Scalpels, Aiden's hysteria played perfectly by Bradley Cooper, or confirmation that some relationship mistakes you just have to make to have peace in your soul. It's a pity that the renewed absolute satisfaction only lasts for about seven episodes because then the plot starts to disintegrate, and after all these years, the complications eventually become unbearable, specifically in the form of Colleen Rose. After Adrian, Carver, James, or Burt, psychologically charged antagonists, the psychopathic pseudo-agent is a bit too much. Furthermore, the finale (meaning 5x14) suffers from the fact that two main storylines (Colleen-Sean and Eden-Julia) are so intense that one had to suffer, and the same happened in the second case. Nevertheless, this season is full of tension, emotion, surprises, and humor. And the following half-season should bring the bar back up. Season 5.5 - 100% - Fate strikes all the characters, psychological pain in every episode, and as the icing on the cake, a happy ending filled with irony. The writer's strike surprisingly helped Nip/Tuck and led it to episodes that in most cases strive for perfection, whether they are filled with emotions or satirical bizarre events and humor. When even the withdrawal of some main characters into the background feels completely natural, I have nothing to criticize. Creating a natural and almost self-contained story on the surface of eight episodes of an ongoing series is an art. 6th season - 90% - Just when I thought I knew the characters like my own family, there comes a moment when I can only sadly gaze at the screen and realize that these are possibly real people with the most real mistakes, deepest emotions, and darkest thoughts. The subtle fog of pessimism will never disappear from the series, but I still have to root for them, no matter how selfish, evil, or broken they are. Despite everything that has already happened to them and what deepens their suffering with each new episode, turning their long-standing vicious circle into a fateful series with all its aspects. 7th season / Season 6.5 / Nine final cuts - 100% - Every great drama should leave at its peak, but when should Nip/Tuck leave when it had several peaks? The end of the second season, Carver's storyline, Michelle's storyline, Christian's cancer, and finally, the last few episodes. From all these periods emerged events and scenes that are simply not seen in other TV shows and make Nip/Tuck an unforgettable event, perhaps contemptible for some, but unique in every sense. And when the episode ends, the creators give us the legendary song "All I Know" as a bonus, and the plot ends exactly as it had to, so that we can consider it at least partially happy. It all starts to dawn on me. That some relationships will never be perfectly fulfilling, but we will always have the urge to try them again (Sean + Julia, Christian + Kimber, Christian + Julia), that saying goodbye to someone sometimes means giving them the chance to be happy, and that some happy endings are worth waiting for in the depths of our souls for many years, even though we know that the found happiness cannot last long (Matt). Saying goodbye to them is very difficult. Maybe they were selfish, superficial, and irreversibly damaged for life. But they were among the most human and authentic characters I have ever known. I love you, and that's all I know.. (19.09.2010) (weniger) (mehr)