Seeing the previews, and hearing that my favorite reality show diva, New York, was gonna be guest starring, I was pretty excited for this special Nip/Tuck "event". But, from the opening scene, I was dissapointed. The first thought that struck me while watching it was that I felt that this episode should have come earlier in the season, maybe episode 2 or 3. Episodes 1 & 2 dealt with Christian's jealousy over Sean's newfround fame, and then he kinda got over. At least it seemed, until they abruptly brought that theme back in this episode. The format of the show was somewhat funny, but they're satirization of reality shows was off. I've never seen a reality show like "Plastic Fantastic" and I can see why test audiences weren't feeling it. The best part was the opening credits. I kind of liked it when they sped up the characters as they walked down the hallways, it was flashy, but eh, it's a minor detail.
Julia here just seemed to be over-reacting when she called out Liz for being too touchy-feely with Olivia, and then when something did happen between our favorite anasthesiologist and the real-life lesbian pretending to be, it just seemed totally out of character and unrealistic. I can see how they've built up Olivia's unhappiness in the last couple of episodes, but kissing Liz just seemed to come out of nowhere. It seemed like forced drama, like the kind they write into reality shows. I kept hoping that plot thread would be revealed at the end of the episode to be something thrown in by the writers of PF, but no, it really happened. Christian's storyline, once again, seemed to be something we already covered. And it seems unlikely that Damien Sands would know of Christian's prostitution when 1) he had only done it a couple of times, as far as we know, and 2) Christian had already left the business, as far as we know. Eden seemed uncharacteristically nice here. I was so used to her being a conniving biatch, I felt like her niceties were totally out of character and just plain badly written. And her and Sean kissing, just not good. I didn't think the show would go there this soon. I kept waiting for Eden to smile after Sean left the recovery room, showing that she was just doing it to manipulate things, once again, but she didn't. That would've been the scene's saving grace.
Good things, though, are to be found:
1) They referenced Conor, finally! I'd like to see more of the kids though. I mean, why bring Wilbur back just to never feature him?
2) The writers finally got to slip in the F-bomb, through the use of the reality-TV format.
3) Next week's episode looks AMAZING!
Filler, filler, filler. I think they came up with the concept and just wanted to do it, thinking it'd be funny, and not really using it move the story forward. That was the problem with this episode. The story hardly moved forward, and when it did, it was in the wrong direction.
It was no Conor McNamara, 2026 though. And we can all be thankful for that.
Rating: 8.2moreless





