Nip/Tuck has gotten sooo intensely twisted that I need to watch Dexter afterwards to make me feel better. I feel like most people kinda gave up after the fifth season and the move to LA, but I kept watching and they kept pounding out episodes, scraping the bottom of the barrel for more taboos left unexplored. Tonight I learned about an ACTUAL psychological condition where people tear their hair out and eat it....!
gross right,
And last week, there was the girlfiend who would stab herself with a fork to get painkillers, TWIS-TED. I loved the earlier episodes where the twistedness was dignified because it was clinically and personally explored, to the point where you learn about certain people and conditions and harness a sense of compassion and understanding. The show used to really explore the many reasons people undergo the knife; the cases were FASCINATING, absolutely fascinating. Now the show seems hell bent on shock value, there's no more personal exploration.
The white guy dating the Japanese girl who wanted to reconstruct his eyes to look Japanese to get her family's approval, the clinical lipo obsessions....all of these cases were based on reality. I think things have gotten too fantastical, and the sick twisted elements of the show (which I used to love so much) are unredeemingly bleak because the episodes briefly and merely expose the surface, and just don't explore people way they used to!
I'll still watch though, cuz I cant stop,
-Nt
gross right,
And last week, there was the girlfiend who would stab herself with a fork to get painkillers, TWIS-TED. I loved the earlier episodes where the twistedness was dignified because it was clinically and personally explored, to the point where you learn about certain people and conditions and harness a sense of compassion and understanding. The show used to really explore the many reasons people undergo the knife; the cases were FASCINATING, absolutely fascinating. Now the show seems hell bent on shock value, there's no more personal exploration.
The white guy dating the Japanese girl who wanted to reconstruct his eyes to look Japanese to get her family's approval, the clinical lipo obsessions....all of these cases were based on reality. I think things have gotten too fantastical, and the sick twisted elements of the show (which I used to love so much) are unredeemingly bleak because the episodes briefly and merely expose the surface, and just don't explore people way they used to!
I'll still watch though, cuz I cant stop,
-Nt