Just a Simple Girl with a Dream

If you have visited this site on more than one occasion, you are aware that I am not exactly an elitist when it comes to television shows.  Now that Making the Team: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders is winding down I need to pick up a new show to write about.  I decided on Nip/Tuck for the following reasons:

1. I’ve watched this show since the jump.  I remember back when Matt was Shawn’s son, Christian met Kimber, and Julia was a whiny self-involved shrew.  (Okay, Julia is still whiny and self-involved, but this is back when she was flushing gerbils down the toilet and attempting medical school.)
2. Matt.  No son of a major character (or in this case, characters) is more enjoyable to hate than Matt.  In the past four seasons, he’s attempted his own circumcision, gotten away with a hit and run, hooked up with a Transsexual, hooked up with a crazy racist and married his father’s ex fiancee.  He’s also supposed to be around 19 or 20 but looks to be in his early thirties.  He also somewhat resembles Michael Jackson.
3. Much like Oz, this is an hour long show that masquerades as an “edgy drama” when in fact it’s really a soap opera.  We’ve had multiple “who’s the daddy” stories, bed-hopping, serial killers, epic disasters, and mobsters.  It’s more “General Hospital at night” than Night Shift.
4. The puzzling decision to move the location of this show from Miami to Los Angeles.  While Nip/Tuck has had many potential jump the shark moments in it’s history, I think this could really be the potential show-killer.  I liked how Nip/Tuck was set in Miami.  It was flashy and bold, like Miami Vice for the new Millennium.  Moving the show to LA just makes it like all the other shows set in LA.  Everyone knows that LA is plastic, materialistic and filled with celebrities.  Not that Miami isn’t, it’s just different.  Moving the show just seems like a desperate move.  It’s like when Mrs. Garrett’s bakery burned down and reopened as Over Our Heads on The Facts of Live. 
5. The shock factor. Let’s be honest, I tune in every week just to see what the writers are going to think of next.  When the pilot episode features your protagonists tying hams to a dead body in the middle of the Everglades, you know you’re in for some wild times.  Sure, both The Carver and the organ-stealing ring were bad idea jeans, but Ava Moore was good times. 
6. Celebrity cameos.  Alec Baldwin played Ava’s orchid-loving, ascot wearing ex-husband.  Rosie O’Donnell was likable as a white trash lottery winner.  Joan Rivers played herself.  I must confess I did not enjoy Larry Hagman’s turn as Burt.  Granted he was a hoot at first, but I hated it when Michelle let him die.  No one is supposed to get the best of JR Ewing, least of all not some third rate organ thief. 

So what do you think?  Will the move to Los Angeles be the final nail in this show’s coffin?  Will Kimber show up at The Scientology Center?  Will Sean and Christian ride off into the sunset?