What is Nip/Tuck about?
Hotshot plastic surgeons Dr. Sean McNamara and Dr. Christian Troy experience full-blown midlife crises as they confront career, family and romance problems.
Nip/Tuck (2003)
Two plastic surgeons face professional and personal crises in a world of brisk, gritty, and campy drama.
A late-night trip at a brisk pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on Hulu and Plex (free).
Nip/Tuck parents guide
The thing to know: strong sex and nudity, more than a TV-MA usually carries. Beyond that, some violence and frequent strong language.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- Light gore
- Some blood or injury, briefly.
- Violence
- Some violence
- Some fighting or peril.
- Sex and nudity
- Strong
- Strong means explicit or repeated sex, extended nudity, or sexual assault shown on screen, attempted or completed, even partly off screen. Any one of these is enough.
- Language
- Strong
- Frequent strong profanity or slurs.
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Three questions
- How gory is Nip/Tuck?
- Light gore and some violence.
- What is Nip/Tuck rated, and is it OK for kids?
- Strong sex and nudity, and frequent strong language. The TV-MA is earned, so not for kids.
Cast and crew
Created byRyan Murphy
StarringDylan Walsh, Julian McMahon, Joely Richardson, John Hensley, Roma Maffia, Kelly Carlson
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