Nip/Tuck"Chaz Darling"
Original Air Date: November 27, 2007
Tom R - TwoCents Staff Writer
Music:
3 unknown tracks
That’s the Way (I Like It) – KC and the Sunshine Band
Perfect Lie (Theme) – The Engine Room
Okay…my four least favorite words? “Written and Directed By.” And we get it this episode. It’s a tough juggling act to pull off, and the failures are so much more plentiful than the successes. So as the show opens, I’m wondering if this will be a write-off episode. Since it follows the season’s strongest entry, I’m willing to let the episode go. And the preview with Paula Marshall in a schoolgirl costume bodes well, to say the least.
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Original Air Date: November 27, 2007
Tom R - TwoCents Staff Writer
Music:
3 unknown tracks
That’s the Way (I Like It) – KC and the Sunshine Band
Perfect Lie (Theme) – The Engine Room
Okay…my four least favorite words? “Written and Directed By.” And we get it this episode. It’s a tough juggling act to pull off, and the failures are so much more plentiful than the successes. So as the show opens, I’m wondering if this will be a write-off episode. Since it follows the season’s strongest entry, I’m willing to let the episode go. And the preview with Paula Marshall in a schoolgirl costume bodes well, to say the least.
The episode opens with Eden trying to blackmail Christian into performing surgery on a gay friend, using his affair with Julia as fodder. Christian goes to Julia, wondering what to do, as Olivia confronts Eden. After the ensuing blowup, Sean finds Christian performing the operation. As Chaz recovers, Eden uses more tactics to press Christian into liposuction for her. He ends up giving her weight loss pills instead, on the condition she does not return to the office. In the most startling scene, he has set her up for stealing drugs, leading to mandatory rehab.
Matt and Kimber plan their next score. (It’s meth, not crack, by the way…my bad.) As Kimber is about to offer herself for the drugs, Matt flips out until Kimber has a flash as to where to get the funds. She renews a contact in the adult industry (Ram Peters, played by John Schneider…Insert Dukes of Hazzard joke here) to get back into films. He immediately calls her on the meth. He offers a gig to Matt for a film called “First Time Fairies.” As Matt finds out that Kimber smoked the money for baby supplies, he comes to terms with the problem as he considers Ram’s offer, leading to a role reversal from Kimber, who then reconnects with the Scientologists and takes Matt off the set before his debut. Getting high again, we realize that Kimber is indeed trading herself.
Kate confronts Sean about his fantasies during sex. He admits he was thinking about a schoolgirl spanking fantasy. A patient tips Sean and Christian off to an interracial swingers’ club. After the schoolgirl romp (no spanking), they discuss the swingers’ club, which turns Kate on. He asks if they can come by and just watch, which the patient tells him is pretty common. Kate proposes a safe word on the way in, as a way to stop if things get too wild. Sean calls it a little too early for Kate’s liking, leading to a discussion of secrets kept and repressed hostilities.
As for those four words, there’s nothing here to sway me one way or the other. Most likely, the episode could have been more powerful with a separate director, but it takes some real work to sink scripts like this. At least two moments were complete jolts, with others getting unexpected laughs. I forgot all about seeing those words, so I guess that’s a good sign.
Write-off episode, my ass!
Quotable
“I’m sorry…Am I interrupting Extreme Makeover: Whore Edition?”
Christian, watching Eden and Chaz discuss fashion
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