With a strong cast and brilliant writing, the shows first and second season was highly addictive and fascinating to watch. I couldn't believe it.'Īnd, she adds, 'Already this season, it's like, 'Oh, my God, that's not possible!'' 'Nip/Tuck' begins its third season with a 90-minute episode on FX at 10 p.m., repeating at 11:30 p.m.Nip/tuck is one of the most gritty, witty intelligent shows on tv. I mean, I just remember I read that episode my jaw dropped. 'You think, 'I don't know if I can be surprised anymore.' And then, say, Famke turns out to be a man. 'It is full of surprises.'Īs actors, 'you get a little bit jaded,' she says. 'It's incredibly detailed work,' Richardson says of the scripts. But at some point in time, usually at the end of each episode, you come up with some kind of message and some kind of moralistic virtue in some kind of way.'

'To be honest, sometimes I don't know where the morals stand. 'Morally, the show challenges itself consistently,' McMahon says. 'What makes 'Nip/Tuck' very exciting and very obsessive with people is that all the characters are just so extreme, going through extreme situations and emotions every episode,' Richardson says. It doesn't get bigger than tonight's 90-minute season premiere, in which the main case involves a 650-pound woman (Kathy Lamkin) literally stuck to her couch, a scene that avoids obvious exploitation by being played with surprising tenderness all around.Īnd as the show begins, in addition to the Carver fallout, Sean and Julia are separated, and Matt is still in the dark about the true nature of the woman he was infatuated with last season, Ava, played by Janssen. 'One of the reasons I wanted to come back was because I thought there was the possibility that this show could become bigger in terms of its scope, in terms of its storytelling,' he says. They sort of spiral off and re-create themselves.' That happens this year, Murphy says, 'for Joely's character for John Hensley's character of Matt. So I really did want to come back, and it worked out, happily.'įor a show that began as a commentary on plastic surgery, it's deepened to a show about transformation in general. So I felt people are interested in it and tend to have an obsessional quality about the show. 'We ended the second season on such a high note,' he told reporters in Los Angeles this summer. 'The things that they do this year are some of the best that we've done,' says Murphy, who originally signed up to do only two seasons of the show and is now in demand writing movies, having completed 'Need,' 'Running with Scissors' and 'Dirty Tricks.'

Also joining the cast will be the sultry Rhona Mitra of 'The Practice' and 'Boston Legal,' as a detective investigating the Carver case.īut the central focus will continue to be the trio at the heart of the story.

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