Cinerant

Stretching Credibility

Credibility has never been Nip/Tuck's strength. (Check out the whole Matt sleeping with a transgenedered individual after he she slept with her adopted son who tried to seduce Matt if you need examples.) Nevertheless, it's always been a lot of fun.

But two things last night just took the main characters so far afield, that I don't think they can ever get back. Julia and Sean can't make up their minds as to whether they want to be married or divorced. Cool, but seriously, if you raised two children together, don't you think you would know one another enough to be able to tell when the other person isn't completely sold on something. And wouldn't you be able to communicate about stuff? Clearly, not written by someone who's been married for a while.

But the biggest problem--Christian gets raped and by the end of the episode is engaging in a three-way? I've done a LOT of research on victims of male rape. Never once have I ever seen someone get over their trauma by having sex with two women. I mean--PLEASE! It stretches the limits of suspension of disbelief so far offstream that it's insulting. Maybe the program will actually deal with the reprecussions of this, because it's a HUGE storyline with more dramatic possibilities than you can imagine. But there's no hint of it being in last night's ep. So who knows?

posted by cinegod @ 10:03 AM