Mike Hamoui (Mario Lopez), who helps bring in business by bringing in new clients. Troy ( Julian McMahon) struggling to keep their practice afloat in a tight economy. The beginning of Season 6 touches on real-world issues as Dr.
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But with past storylines having already dealt with self-mutilation, necrophilia, sexual identity confusion, a foursome, a serial killer, neo-Nazis and more messed up clients than the average psychiatrist sees during the course of an entire career, where can you go from there? Perhaps the show pushed too far too fast, and the writers clearly had to stretch themselves to come up with new ideas that hadn't been done before. Once the top-rated show on the FX network, it lost viewers as they became bored with more of the same. By the time it got to the sixth season, the show's once-provocative subject matter began to feel a bit tired. It's actually appropriate that Nip/Tuck should go out this way, considering it frequently explores the uphill struggle to maintain youth and vitality as time marches on. Whatever the reason, it's clear from watching these episodes that the show's better days are behind it. Both are packaged here together under the ambiguous subtitle of "The Sixth and Final Season" (rather than the "Sixth and Seventh Seasons"). This being a cable show, they were both short orders, together totaling just 19 episodes, or about the same as a network season. didn't go that route with the final season, initially promoted as Season 6 and Season 7. While Season 5 got a two-volume DVD release, Warner Bros. Which makes its slow decline into irrelevancy all the more tragic.
Call it social satire, shock TV or just a plain old guilty pleasure, Nip/Tuck took viewers to the edge and back again. The series delved into the world of sexual perversion, alternative lifestyles, mental instability and all sorts of deviant behavior. Since its premiere in 2003, Nip/Tuck made a mark on the television landscape by pushing the envelope and courting controversy at every turn.