
It feels less and less like a moralizing satire on the ruthlessness of vanity and more and more like a joyless exploration of desperate sex hatched in a windowless building of a strip mall in the San Fernando Valley. The series needed reigniting, and it got some from the location shift: Los Angeles allows “Nip/Tuck” to indulge the full courage of its sleaziness. I paid my dues, and I want some overnight success.” A cosmetic-enhancement outfit the men founded in their 20s, it moved to Beverly Hills from Miami Beach this season because, as Christian explains it: “I’m a jack rabbit. Matt’s other father, the man who reared him into his current namby-pambiness, is Sean McNamara, Christian’s partner in McNamara/Troy. “Nip/Tuck,” among its many other distinctions, is probably more committed to incestuous takes on genealogy than any other show on television. Christian Troy, who by the logic of “Nip/Tuck,” now in its fifth anarchic season on FX, must always look as if he bathes in canola oil and also happens to be the biological father of her husband, Matt. Kimber, the porn star turned porn mogul turned coke addict, cultist and meth-head, has been tussling with her ex-boyfriend and former plastic surgeon, Dr.
