Later at breakfast, we see that he doesnвЂ™t remember asking about a book his son Matt was reading and Matt notices that he doesnвЂ™t listen. Moments like this further reinforce how out of touch Sean is. While Sean is more courteous of JuliaвЂ™s body, he treats her like one of his patients.

Sean treats his wifeвЂ™s desire for breast implants differently. Kelly Carlson is very pretty, but through ChristianвЂ™s charm, sheвЂ™s made to believe she is ugly. Christian ruins KimberвЂ™s fantasy of being the perfect 10 by mentioning flaws most of us wouldnвЂ™t care about or notice, even marking her body heavily with lipstick. Christian is having the sex mere mortals dream of whereas Sean and his wife donвЂ™t look at each other during sex and think about shopping or firing the gardener.Д«oth men deal with the plastic surgery concerns of their lovers. ItвЂ™s shocking how raw Christian and KimberвЂ™s romp is. In addition, the $300,000 was an easy way to get him not to ask any more questions. However, even Christian doesnвЂ™t know the whole story, but what he hears (that Perez was with the bossвЂ™ daughter) appeals to his ladiesвЂ™ man personality so much that he doesnвЂ™t learn the age of the girl. The implant was put in wrong, and Sean pointing it out showed that he is more talented than his partner is.Д¬hristian knows that Perez is lying about not being able to speak English and that he isnвЂ™t telling everything regarding why he wants the surgery. Liz is disgusted by it, which helps set what her character is for the rest of the series. When Sean does, Christian is doing a butt implant. The Spanish compels him to have Christian intervene. He canвЂ™t see that Perez has ulterior methods behind wanting surgery. Sean is clueless about Spanish, which everyone around him knows because of MiamiвЂ™s Latino community. ItвЂ™s great how much characterization appears in the showвЂ™s prologue. With its graphic depiction of plastic surgery procedures, explicit language, sexuality and occasionally violence, Nip/Tuck was fearless from the opening moments of the pilot episode. Nip/Tuck was the perfect addition to solidify this status.

Following the success of The Shield, a show emphasized for being too hot for network TV, FX decided to try to repeat their success and develop a reputation of having controversial, but artistically defendable programming.

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