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I got Nip/Tuck Ep 3 !

Maybe I should ponder it a little bit and wait until I get Ep 4 (which is downloading)but I have lots of marking to do tomorrow so...here's my thoughts about it.

First I must say that the episode wasn't as good as the previous one, but they can't all be excellent, can they? Looks like threesome/foursome is a leitmotiv in the series, but behind every threesome there's a couple hiding itself. Even the title, Nip/Tuck, with the slash enhanced in the credits, points out it's all about 2 people. It's something they already did in season 2 with the siamese sisters who symbolically represented Sean/Christian. During that episode Sean and Christian ended up in a threesome with a whore but as both were thinking of Julia it was like they were actually 4 in bed. In the end, the sex bed split again into the twin beds of the hotel room, a metaphor of Sean/Christian's separation and which echoed the surgery they practiced on the twin sisters. But the sisters couldn't live as parted. The sisters died, Sean and Christian put them the way they were before, joining the bodies' heads again, and the partners/brothers decided to go back together. From the beginning the series was based on a faux-triangle: Sean/Julia/Christian, and was mostly about a main couple that is Sean/Christian. And it's going on.

Now we had Quentin who was threatening that couple again while their relationship was spoiled once more. His bisexuality was obvious in episode 1, but they waited until ep 3 to raise the issue. BTW I don't like his face at all.

The "2 faces glued to an ass" was an easy metaphor of the triangle leitmotiv besides suggesting a man-on-man "touching", and foreshadowing a hand on Christian's cheek .

So we saw Quentin playing, first, Sean's surgery partner on Matt's case (breaking the family bond) and then Christian's surgery partner on the college guys before partying with the former, and getting involved in another faux-triangle (Christian/Kimber/Kit) with the latter. But once again the couple leitmotiv was lurking beneath the 2 aborted foursomes. The double blow-job scene led Sean to throw himself in Julia's arms, something she's been hoping for weeks, and the "real" foursome scene led Christian to kick out Quentin and Kit and claimed Kimber as his, something she's wanted for weeks. Both Julia and Kimber got what they wanted. That episode seemed to end up with a conformist message about the couple.

Of course the most important couple that was renewed is Sean/Christian pairing, and we got to see them joking like brothers at the expense of Quentin.

But at the end of the day, beyond all threesomes and triangles, there's a remaining square: Matt and his 3 parents. And it's just so screwed up. Not conformist at all!

Added random comments:

1. Is it me or Julian McMahon is more and more beautiful with the passing of weeks?

2. I loved Christian telling Matt he shagged Ava and saying that he'd rather face his son's hate than seeing him destroyed himself because of Ava. How couldn't I love that Christian? He can be so genuine.

3. I can't help enjoying Matt when he's a smartass and thinking that Julia and Sean deserve it. But he's making a habit of violence on "women". He's losing it.

4. Having said that I still dislike Julia.

5. I love the play on words...Kit(ty) comparing Christian to a domestic cat and him replying there was no pussy for her when he claimed Kimber! LOL

6. I have the feeling we're supposed to suspect Quentin as the Carver, but I hope he is not and I stick to my theory: the Carver is a woman. If it isn't Julia (might not be her if there're planning a season 4), I think that Kit McGraw is a serious candidate.