Thursday, November 30, 2006

Nip/Tuck Episode 13 Review




Serious false advertising.

How do you name a show 'Reefer' without a hint of the green stuff?
Answer: Get a hobo off the street to play, go figure, a 420 friendly hobo. This guys hustlin' though, as he steals a Salvation Army collection bucket and cusses at rich people to guilt them into giving him enough money to cop more Jack. Isn't that what anyone working a 9-5 is really doing?

Sean's obvious reaction is to befriend this guy, guzzle some jack, and score him some hand-me-downs. Makes sense. Sadly for the hobo, befriending Sean means he ends up getting dominated by James (apparently French for - I'm a woman with a man's name) for his organs, except for his destroyed liver (take that woman pimp!).

Sean decides to spend all his time on the juice, which leads him to make a woman's g-spot too sensitive (really a problem??) and rationalize friending a hobo. Finally in a straight out of Bad Santa scene, Sean gets sauced before being Santa Claus at a charity fundraiser. He does however manage to score dome from a midget elf working there.

Random side note: Did Nip/Tuck seriously steal the 'angry girl storming into the street, gets hit by a bus' scene from Mean Girls girls a couple of episodes ago? That along with the Bad Santa scene are showing a serious lack of writing creativity. I mean, come on, that's almost as bad as ABC taking a Bill Murray movie and making a Taye Diggs show with it.

Christian, meanwhile, is re-united with his sexaholic ex-girlfriend's African-American son, who he apparently becomes legal guardian too, despite the fact that he in no way is related to the child. This relationship allows for quite possibly the most awkward televised statement this side of George W, when Michelle quips 'You didn't tell me he was black.' Well shit Christian.

Next week: James attempts to jack the kid's (seriously, you can't get a better name than Wilbur?) kidneys. Can't hate on a woman pimp for being entrepreneurial.

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