Forget Nip/Tuck -- Just Call It Project Projection

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With the amount of time these docs have spent with shrinks (see Brooke Shields, Sean's midlife-crisis therapist from way back, the two staff psychologists from last season -- the squeamish Dr. Pendleton and Grace "Doctors Can't Keep Their Hands Off Me" Santiago), you'd think they'd know projection isn't the best way to deal with your problems. Alas, this week Christian and Sean both try to save themselves by "saving" someone else -- with disastrous results. byphoto_diana.gif

Christian, still reeling from his therapist's suggestion that he's gay, befriends the young lover to an "old queen" played by Richard Chamberlain, and tries to bring lover boy back to the hetero side by introducing him to a stripper who agrees to give the kid some action in return for a "pro bono" boob reduction. The kid, unsurprisingly, accepts what's on offer. (As Christian watches them together, I can't help but wonder if he's aroused by the stripper working on him or the guy's groans… but I digress.) Of course Chamberlain's character finds out about the dalliance and sends his young boyfriend packing, minus the Porsche and all the other pretty things he'd given him. So, again, of course, Mr. Looking for a Handout comes to Christian's, strips down and offers himself as a toy. Christian beautifully plays into the "is he, or isn't he" question by attacking the kid with a punch that sends him sprawling face first on the cold tile floor. Hmm… is anyone else reminded of Matt post-Ava?

Sean, meanwhile, is served coffee by a man with Treacher-Collins syndrome, a hereditary disorder that causes facial defects, and offers him free plastic surgery to correct the disfigurement. Sean, I applaud your caring, but you do realize that fixing others won't fix your kid, don't you? Sadly, the surgery isn't successful, and Sean is forced to tell the man that he would need more-extensive work that could take years to complete. The man is adamant: He won't do it -- it's too late, and he won't go through the pain. Which prompts a dispirited Sean to go home and tell Julia that he wants their unborn child to have surgery as soon as possible -- before he's old enough to be fearful of it.

And where's Kimber? Thankfully still in the picture! Looking stunning, as always, she meets Matt at a gym this week, and she tries to draw him into everyone's favorite religion to knock, Scientology. And she doesn't have to try too hard: Matt falls for her spiel hook, line and sinker, and whether it's a solution to his problems or not, he finagles money out of Julia to join the space club... uh, religion.

The littlest McNamara, meanwhile, freaks everyone out by taping up her fingers and mutliating her dolls' hands to try to figure out what life will be like for her unborn brother. Actions of a serial maimer, or something a curious -- and healthy -- kid would do?

What do you think? Is Annie on the path to white padded walls? Is poor Matt just making another wrong choice, or could Scientology really make him "clear" -- or clearer than he is, at least? Is Christian gay? And what's the deal with the practice's new owner and the woman she gave money to, then, uh, kissed passionately?! Speculate in the Comments section below.

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6 Comments

Alena said:

The stuff I have to say--this may take a couple comments because of the amount of characters I can use...I am SO GLAD that Matt is heree, but what I don't understand is why they insist on making him looking like he could go gay at any moment. The perfectly shaped eyebrows...I mean really?! I think it's funny that they are tieing Scientology into all of it. As high on the radar as that is now.

So what do you think about that guy that offered to give Christain a blow job??? I mean was he for real?? I just can't believe it. I wonder how far they are going to take this story line...surely he's not going to give ip sleeping with every hot chick in town right!?

And then to see Kimber come back...what a relief. She's much more firey than any other woman on the show...I don't care what kind of story line they give her...as long as she's stays.

Alena said:

I would LOVE to see AVA come back. That would be an ironic twist for her to come back right as they are doing the gay storyline for Christian. Ya know?

Oh and NEXT week...I think I am going to burst having to wait a week!!!

Kolor Me BADD... said:

Ian McKellen is the "Warlords of The Gheys" as he makes a "ghust starring appearnce" on Nip/Tucker. He plays Cheero's love intrest. James Blunt makes a ghey apperence as himself. He's dating Lando played bi Billie "D" Williams aka Billy Dee Williams as says so....

Bloom Syndrome (Congenital Telangiectatic Erythema) - Bloom syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by telangiectases. WBR LeoP

Wrong actions of doctors often lead to death which then carefully become covered by lawyers of clinics WBR LeoP

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