So I got the complete series of Nip/Tuck for Christmas. I remembered it being a great show. I watched the first three seasons and half of
the fourth season before saying see ya to cable. Well I’ve finally watched it from beginning
to end and wow is all I can say. It was
even better watching it now.
I was talking to my BFL about the show and how I missed so
much symbolism when I first watched it over 10 years ago. Show ran from 2003-2010. Now that I have some distance and some more
age and experience on me, it really blows me away how much story telling and
symbolism was in that show.
My BFL and I were dissecting just a couple episodes. I’ve already done a run through but I started
watching it again because my BFL was saying she didn’t believe that Christian
even liked women. And I thought, but
didn’t say, much like most Christian religions.
*chuckle* I wasn’t sure I agreed with her or not. Besides Sean he had no male friends. If he had no use for a person, male or
female, then they were soon dismissed from his life. And he was pretty unapologetic about it. Even tied up with an angry ex-girlfriend
aiming a knife at his penis he still told the truth.
Kimber: Why couldn’t you just love me?
Christian: I never loved anyone.
That takes guts.
She’d already cut him in the side.
You know she ain’t playing but you’re still telling the truth. Dang bro’.
*chuckles*
But I find it interesting that they give the character most
like the devil the name Christian.
Remember the devil is reported to be a fallen angel and the most
beautiful of them all. Consequently, the
most beautiful people on the show have some of the most awful secrets or do the
most awful things. And Christian and his
10-inch penis thought of himself as as the most beautiful of them all.
In the show’s run they handled homosexuality, bestiality, transgenders,
fluid sexuality, Christianity, Scientology, of course our obsession with
physical perfection, vanity when your eyes is lying azz lying to you,
parenting, love, hate, sex, bigotry, fatherhood, motherhood, gender inequality,
child abuse and so much more.
There is an episode where they realize, after the fact, that
they have changed the appearance of a pedophile priest. Sean is all for taking their time and talking
it out with the Archdiocese. He’s
leaving voicemails and hoping they call him back. He’s supposed to be the good guy in this.
Meanwhile, Christian goes down to the church and confronts
the priest. Then do you know what that
good Christian priest says to him: He knows it is wrong but he can’t help
himself and he can’t go to jail either.
Christian, one of a handful of times, shows what being a Christian is
supposed to be about and tells him either he turns himself into the police or he’ll
do it himself.
You’re supposed to take up for the innocent children already
here. Period.
There were other moments like that in the show. I’m watching it yet again to pick up stuff I
missed. I had a couple choking moments
of course. They showcased the double
standards between men and women. Sean
cheats on his wife and his mistress dies.
He confesses to his wife and then buries his head in her lap looking for
sympathy after his mistress dies from cancer.
*blink blink* N*gger WHAT?????
She puts him out for a couple weeks but goes to him and
tells him to come home.
Okay. He finds out
that she had an affair with Christian before they were married and that their
oldest is in fact Christian’s son. He
tries to kill her before kicking her out of the house and refuses to forgive
her for months. When the divorce is
final and she starts a successful business THEN he wants her azz back. At which point she’s like naw, I’m good but
thanks. He forgives Christian long
before forgiving his ex-wife.
The show even took digs at people who believe their kids are
going to tell them everything because they are such good buddies. When Julia finds out their oldest is having
sex she can’t believe he didn’t tell her before engaging in sex. I couldn’t stop laughing. I can’t believe how people fool themselves
into believing that they and their kids are a) like that and b) need to be like
that.
The show also took on what happens when you make your child
your peer instead of your child.
If it missed anything to touch on I don’t know what it
was. By the finale they had come full
circle. The only difference is that I
wanted to put my foot in Matt’s azz.
Otherwise, I was happy where they left everyone. Darn good show. Has to be to get me to blog about it.
But it also got me looking at the caucasian woman they were
passing around. I started thinking about
Kizzy and the difference between Kizzy and Kimber. Though Kimber got passed around and ended up
doing porn, meth, prostitution, she still got six marriage proposals, four of
those rings were worth over $100k, one ring was between $10k - $20k and she got
married twice. But people think you’re
overreaching when you say that Kizzy’s romantic life should have been totally
different. Okay. Y’all keep thinking that.
OH! I did want to
remark on something else that of course happened on fb. On a writer friend of mine’s wall. I started to discuss it in my writer group
but I didn’t want it to seem like I’m gossiping about her because I’m not. I’m just concerned.
Here’s the scenario.
Said writer friend is pregnant.
She’s had a miscarriage and then difficulty getting pregnant again. So now that she is pregnant again she has
been gushing. It is to be expected. I read what I want and like and skim when I
ain’t got time. Well yesterday she put
up a rant about her pregnancy saying that if people didn’t like her pregnancy
posts then they could unfollow / unfriend as they pleased. This was her joy and she was going to revel
in it.
I read it and was a bit shocked. Only a bit because she basically says what
she feels all the time. So I wasn’t
surprised at the rant. I was surprised
she told people on her author’s page they could leave if they didn’t like her
pregnancy posts.
So, I sat and ruminated for a minute on whether I should say
something. I said a prayer on it and then
reached out to her. I just asked did she
think that was wise considering that a lot of the people on her page are her
readers. People planning baby shower
participation and ish. She’d need those
folks to buy her books when they come out this year.
She said that she wrote under other names and that she had
other ventures that supported her so she felt fine if people didn’t want to
support her anymore. She said she was
tired of people telling her she couldn’t do what she wanted to do and she was
going to do things her way.
So I was like, okay.
Cool! As long as you are good
financially then I’ll go back to minding my business. Then I got to thinking, you know the no
nonsense approach works for Dr. Phil.
Let me sit here and see how this works out for her. I always watch how other writers run their
pages to see what seems to work for them especially with writers in my same
genre.
So today I signed onto fb and fooled around on other
people’s pages and my own before going to check her page to see what folks had
said to her rant. People seemed
supportive. I saw that she posted a
follow up video detailing what made her go off.
Basically some folks who have access to her told her things from it is
too early for her to be talking about her pregnancy to she needs to be
sensitive to people who are still trying to get pregnant, etc.
And people seemed to understand and rally around her. So I kind of breathed a sigh of relief. However, as I looked around things do seem to
be a bit quieter on her wall. I’m going
to keep an eye on it as I said, I look at how other writers seem to connect
with their readers as info on how I want to move forward with my readers. I know one romance writer who has bonded with
readers over her cat. Seriously she gets
close to 100 likes and lots of conversation on her cat’s antics every time she posts. She’s got a great rapport with an awful lot
of her readers. Great rapport with your
readers leads to repeat readers and recommendations.
This writer friend of mine had/has that. Like I said, I’m going to keep an eye on it
and see how it goes.
Other than that, things are still great.
Peace, love, and blessings.
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