S7E9
“You know I always wanted this to last forever.”

The final episode was a good one. It avoided doing a over dramatic, soap opera style murder spree or natural catastrophe to kill off characters. It was really like saying goodbye to friends. I knew Sean and Christian wouldn’t, and couldn’t last. It looked like death was going to be the only way for them to split and I was partially right. Christian was on his way to killing Sean eventually. Sean gave up, reserved himself to what he thinks was his only choice: tit jobs, booze and Christian standing nearby.

Surprisingly Christian cut the strings. He has to live with what he did to Kimber for the rest of his life (although saying he “eats souls” is pretty over the top) and he can’t let the same fate happen to Sean. He’s gotta push one love away so they can be happy and live. Their final patient, Mr. Yoshimuri was the mirror to Christian. In his golden years the guy was having fun, doing what made him happy, unflinching to the moment he died. It’s really impossible for Christian to really change, we’ve seen it time and time again. Christian has kept Sean from changing, from doing what he wants to do. Now I’m unsure if Sean is going to raise the child Ava left behind, but at the very least his new life has started.

Now, good old Matt! The true train wreck of the family. He can’t handle life by himself, he has to have a dominate person watch him and tell him what to do. He knows it. He can’t fight it. It was surprising that he actually managed to come up with a convincing argument for Ava to let him tag along. Who knows, maybe the two pieces of shit will be able to live together (doubt it). Matt McNamara will go down as one of the shadiest TV characters of all time. The amount of awful things he’s done is staggering when you think about it.

While there was a lot of “Hey! This is the last show!” moments (like the revolution around the last dinner table) I’m happy with general feel at the end. You know that everyone is still going, it’s just that this saga is over. While everyone is going their separate ways, they could still be in contact with each other. Some people have changed and for the most part there isn’t a smoldering wreckage left behind in their relationships.

They of course did get away with murder. Dumping that last woman, the investigation surrounding Escobar was barely a mention. A big sticking point for me is that we never got a sense for Sean’s relationship with his two youngest kids. Especially Conner who was more of an after thought since his hand surgeries were complete. The kids always took a back seat on the show (Matt did get a lot of screen time) but the last scene where the kids leave dinner, it was like “everyone give the extras a round of applause!”. I never got the feeling that Sean would miss Conner at all since he never saw the kid.

Nip/Tuck has had it’s ups and downs to say the least, but it’s still one of my favorite TV shows ever made. I’m going to watch the first 2 seasons again soon to walk down memory lane again. While it’s time is certainly done, I am going to miss looking forward to new episodes.