Reid About It

From the end of last season's "Carver" story, which wrapped up a thrilling plotline with a resolution that didn't make sense no matter how you looked at it, I've been waning on Nip/Tuck. The first three years were so good, I've given it the benefit of the doubt. This season I've watched, but the whole year was pretty lame and substandard. I just finished watching the finale.

To begin with, every major plotline they had this year resolved itself in the episode before the finale. The stolen organ ring and the return of Wilbur have both played themselves out, James is dead, Julia is gone with the kids, Liz is single, and Gina has given up contact with Wilbur.

They spent all season telling us that 1) Christian was gay, and 2) Christian was actually falling in love with Michelle, and we should accept that he's finally changed and wants to marry her and settle down. Well, Christian wasn't gay, and his relationship with Michelle was so deep-rooted and life-changing, it ended off-camera in the last five minutes of the year.

They spent all season telling us that Sean was a family man who wanted the best for his wife and children. Well, Julia left with the kids, they didn't fix Connor's other hand, and Sean's not only getting along without the family, he's moving across the country to be away from them.

A series known for controversial moments and really hot sexual subplots gave us two, count 'em, two instances of midget sex this year. There was absolutely nothing hot this season, in fact, the sex scenes that were the show's trademark were replaced by cringe-inducing moments of unerotic shock.

When they finally got to the finale, they had no plotlines to resolve and so they had to bring back the bad guy from the very first season and finally wrap up that storyline. Now, in a desperate shark-jumping twist right out of Laverne and Shirley, Sean and Christian have moved to California.

So now, everybody is gone. Matt and Kimber are left behind, Julia has walked off the planet (taking with her both kids including Annie, who never even had a plotline of her own on the show), Michelle vanished without any resolution, we're not sure where Wilbur is, and McNamara/Troy is setting up shop in Hollywood, even though Sean is now under contract to some other plastic surgery place.

Not sure where they're going with this one.