Not Sure What I Was Thinking...

Well a night I have been waiting for since last December I think has come and gone. Nip/Tuck premiered and the new season has begun. There goes my tuesday nights for the foreseeable future. I am ADDICTED to this show. I have not missed an episode since it premiered four years ago. Last year was a lot of fun because I realized a friend of mine, Kami, was as addicted as i was. We would either watch episodes together or talk about them all week and what we thought would happen next week. Now I am back to handling my addiction alone. Except for tonight.
I had planned on watching tonight's episode by myself like I normally do. However, my mom ended up watching with me tonight. For the record, this is not a family show. Nor is it the kind of show that mom, dad and the kids gather around the tube and watch together. The word awkward comes to mind when looking back at what we just watched. Now I was prepared for what I saw. I don't think I can say the same for mom. I think she was a bit shocked. Just a hunch.
Here's a complete tangent. Larry Hagman was a guest star tonight. I won't go into the details of the surgery he wanted performed here. Nope. But it made me think of the whole liver transplant drama that centered around him a few years ago. Here's a celebrity who has drunk his liver into oblivion and now needs a new one. Of course J.R. Ewing doesn't have to wait long at all. He magically jumps to the top of the list and low and behold, has a new liver. Nevermind the other people on that same list who didn't kill their livers. Those who had cancer or a severe accident of some sort or who cares what else. It annoys me to no end that just because he's Larry Hagman he receives special treatment.
Anyway, enough about that. I got to thinking about why I like Nip/Tuck so much. The characters are certainly screwed up enough and I want Julia (Joely Richardson in real life) to die a slow and painful death. i actually want Joely Richardson to die as well. That's how much i hate her character. Having just finished The World According to Garp a few days ago it made me realize something. Nip/Tuck is like a John Irving novel. Very real (too real in some aspects) and flawed in every way. People hurt each other, families lie and manipulate each other yet they truly do LOVE each other. They always forgive. Not much forgetting but they do forgive. In some ways they expect the behavior they get from each other. It's no surprise to them. The funny thing is that I expect them to behave a certain way and 99% of the time they do. But what makes the show great is there is always that .01% that throws you. Sean finds out about his baby having a birth defect tonight. A secret that Julia (die die die) has known about for some time. Julia claimed that she didn't tell Sean because she was afraid he would leave and she says that she is having the baby no matter what. Now I am sitting here wishing a piano would magically crash through the roof and kill Julia because I know that Sean would do anything for Julia and more for his children. Then that .01% hits. Sean tells Christian near the end of the show about the baby and says that at 6 months "that ship has sailed." He actually would have opted for the abortion. I didn't see that one coming at all.
So, for the record children. If you are under the age of 18, you shouldn't be watching Nip/Tuck. And if you are over 18, don't watch it with your mom.