Within 2005, Nip/Tuck won the Golden Globe for Best Drama Series. A third year debuted in the U.S. in Tuesday, September 20, 2005 and debuted in the UK on October 16, 2005.

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Issues addressed
Hypersexuality and swinging Sodomy Masturbation Ménage à trois and orgies Anal Sex Pornography Puberty Surgery Lesbianism Bisexuality Transgender issues Multiple personality disorder Dysfunctional families Paternity and adultery Breast cancer Drug smuggling Incest Suicide Statutory Rape Alcohol Vehicular Homicide Car Accidents Divorce and Separation Quackery HIV and AIDS Abortion and Miscarriage Rape Munchausen syndrome

Main characters

Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh)- A disposables surgeon nearing middle age & trying to are to terms by having a options he has processed within his life. For close deuce decades he has redo a McNamara/Troy polymer surgery clinic using his right friend, Christian Troy. Sean believes that he went into anaplasty to help repair a bodies of a deformed & the mutilated, however became sidetracked around performing vanity procedures. Once a indicate begins, he is looking for running into pro-bono operate. He has been married to his college sweetheart Julia for Seventeen years, & it keep close at hand a single baby together, Annie. For years he & Julia raised a boy known as Matte, by having Sean believing it was his infant; he late found that Mat was in point of fact the son of Christian Troy. While Sean finds call at the 2nd year, he & Julithe separate, leading to a divorcement inside Year Three.

Christian Troy (Julian McMahon)- Sean's plastic surgery partner. He, as well, is nearing middle age, however participates within the never-ceaseless quest to sense & come out young. His life has been an endless succession of seducing & bang women, single to cast the children polish off when he's gotten a intimate satisfaction he wants from either the two. It has been hinted at that Christian's marginal aberrant intimate behavior can be rooted in a severe sex crime he suffered at the paws of his step-father. Once he & Sean were within college together, he got the a single-nighttime-could have by having Sean's so-fiancee, Julia, & impregnated her. For even years, Julia told Sean that a infant was his, never informing either he or Christian world health organization a little one's actual father was. In the 2nd year of the indicate, Julia eventually reveals world health organization Matte's confessedly father is, though it doesn't vary Lustrelessness & Christian's avuncular relationship.

Julia McNamara (Joely Richardson)- Sean's emotionally unstable wife of Seventeen years. Whenever the indicate begins she is beginning to reconsider marrying Sean, & throughout a course of the number 1 year she considers (& tries) many affairs, including a single using Christian (which is thwarted whenever Julia arrives at his flat single to call for Christian already screw twins) & a university student many years her junior. A pilot episode makes clear her disloyal & destructive behavior, whilst she number 1 flushes her girl's however-dwelling hamster down a potty (resultant around her existence booted from either the PTA) & allows Christian to fondle her bare breasts within her parlor. Julia's inability to produce lasting decisions becomes the motif through the course of the series: She lives virtually all of the 1st & 2nd seasons wishing she got married Christian. An episode inside year Two showing how else her life would've been different got she married Christian reveals that in case she were married to Christian, she would've spent a course of their marriage wishing she'500 married Sean, the revelation which is followed higher by Julia looking for sapphism. within a 2nd year, she reveals to Christian that the of these-nighttime-have she experienced by using him in college once she was engaged to Sean resulted in the birth of Lusterlessness; the revelation of this served to eventually kill Sean & Julia's tenuous marriage.

Matt McNamara (John Hensley)- Christian and Julia's riotous boy. He was raised thinking that he was Sean's boy, & however treats Sean when his father potentially fallowing a revelation that Christian is his biological father. He is typically required inside activity that would exist as considered malefactor even or indecent to the typical individual: inside the number 1 year he & the friend smoke marijuanthe when camping the car, sequent in Matte running off all over & gruesomely disfiguring a teen girl. Matte refuses to require answerableness for a accident, instead trying to benefit atonement by convincing Sean to run pro-bono surgery & repair the girl's disfigurement. He late enters into the relationship by using the pair of adolescent lesbians world health organization obviously apply him to spice higher their sex populates; Matte's involvement serves to ruin a girls' relationship. He lives a majority of Year Two screw Ava, Julia's household counselor, the woman about twenty years his senior, world health organization was antecedently exposed within the intimate relationship by using her step-boy. Unbeknown to Lustrelessness, Avthe was when the human world health organization has since undergone a sex vary operation. While Sean reveals Ava's preceding to Lustrelessness, we recommend that Mat can be repressing homointimate feelings or even could have a sexual fetish for transgender women.

The Carver- the disguised serial raper world health organizatiin disfigures his outdoor enthusiasts by cutting the deep slash on either side of their mouths, resembling a grin. He became angry at McNamara & Troy once it began "fixing" his "masterpieces" by performing pro-bono surgery in his those. At a prevent of the 2nd year, Christian was attacked & raped within his house per Carver. A Carver's identity has however to exist as revealed.

Other characters
Quentin Costa- Bruno Campos (Season 3+ recurring antecedently) Gina Russo – Jessalyn Gilsig (Season 3+ recurring antecedently) Liz Cruz – Roma Maffia (Season 2+ recurring antecedently) Kimber Henry – Kelly Carlson (Season 3+ recurring antecedently) Grace Santiago - Valerie Cruz (Season Single)

Episode list

By having a exception of a pilot, to each one episode is known as fallowing the character(s) that might undergo anaplasty in this particular episode.

Season one