# Should I keep watching Nip/ Tuck?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-keep-watching-nip-tuck/536040
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [April 14, 2010, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-keep-watching-nip-tuck/536040 "2010-04-14T06:07:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@iftheresaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iftheresaway)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2010, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-keep-watching-nip-tuck/536040/1 "2010-04-14T06:07:55Z")
I just finished watching season 3 of Nip/ Tuck through Netflix, and I’m trying to decide whether I want to keep going. This season was really frustrating - the characters are so completely unbelievable, their choices and reactions are ridiculously over-the-top, and even considering the fact that they’ve got to have stuff going on to keep the show interesting, the silliness and bizarreness of the stuff that happens (and the fact that there is so much of it) turns the show into more of a soap opera than a drama. That being said, the last two episodes of the season were quite good, and the whole slasher arc kept me interested through the first three seasons. So, should I bother with the rest of the series?
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2010, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-keep-watching-nip-tuck/536040/2 "2010-04-14T11:02:45Z")
It gets a lot worse after season 3. The next few seasons were almost unbearable. If you’re already iffy on continuing, it might be good to just drop it.
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### Author:  [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2010, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-keep-watching-nip-tuck/536040/3 "2010-04-14T12:02:32Z")
I stopped after the Carver plot was resolved. I absolutely **hated** the son, and I wasn’t crazy about Joely Richardson’s character either. I liked the stories of the patients and would have kept watching if they’d focused more on them than on those wacky :rolleyes: surgeons. Cosmetic surgery is fascinating to me – they didn’t need silly plots to keep me watching.
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### Author:  [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2010, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-keep-watching-nip-tuck/536040/4 "2010-04-14T13:23:25Z")
I think I stopped after season 3 and never regretted it. I caught a few episodes here and there, and the show became a total joke. They were never able to recapture the brilliance of season 1.
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### Author:  [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2010, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-keep-watching-nip-tuck/536040/5 "2010-04-14T15:45:27Z")
I couldn’t agree more with the assessment that it all went to shit after the carver plot was resolved. I tried like hell to keep watching and I just couldn’t. Joely Richardson’s character, with all that whiny, mealymouthed whispering made me stabby. IMHO, moving the setting from Miami to LA just killed the whole thing.
Now if they’d moved it to Utah (where there is more plastic surgery than in either LA or Miami. [Cite.](http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Salt-Lake-City-Number-One-For-Plastic-Surgery/645321)) \*that \*might have been interesting.
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### Author:  [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2010, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-keep-watching-nip-tuck/536040/6 "2010-04-14T19:02:50Z")
I’m in the same boat. Took a risk on the first season on DVD, liked it, and have been buying season sets since, despite feeling the thing went flat pretty quickly. Only reasons I’ve bought past season 3 are that (1) I’m a completist, and (2) I end up finding sets for $10 a few months after their release, so I figure… “hey, the show’s gotta be better now, right?”
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### Author:  [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2010, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-keep-watching-nip-tuck/536040/7 "2010-04-14T23:42:47Z")
There was a definite decline after season 4 (season 6 is especially weak), but what can I say…I am a N/T junkie. I liked it because it’s so over the top, so wacky. Matt keeps screwing up, Christian refuses to change, and Sean keeps sticking around when he really shouldn’t.
There are some hilarious things in season 5 as well–Rosie O’Donnell is a riot.