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This show is crazy. Crazy good. Well, at least crazy good-ish. While this is only the second episode I’ve ever seen, I’m immediately drawn to the relationship at the core of the series, that of the strangely hostile give and take between McNamara and Troy. For two best friends they seem endlessly ready to destroy the life of the other, and yet right there under the surface is the whiff of homoeroticism. They’re first in love with themselves, then in love with each other. Everything else, I suppose, is icing. More after the jump…

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What are you doing to her Lady Cha-Cha?

I had never seen an episode of Nip/Tuck until I watched Tuesday’s fifth season premiere. The series has gone under a bit of an overhaul, relocating the two star doctors McNamara and Troy from Miami to Los Angeles. It was a move that made perfect sense as setting a series about superficiality in Los Angeles is a peanut-butter/chocolate type of relationship. It also provided an especially easy jump-on point for someone who has always wanted to watch the show but not enough to catch up on previous season’s worth of episodes. Based on that episode, it looks like I’ll be watching Nip/Tuck in the weeks to come. The series is dark, funny, well acted, competently written and (this season) features Oliver Platt and Bradley Cooper, whose roles in this first episode were blisteringly funny. More after the jump…

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