Nip/Tuck: 592: "Well, I don't know if I'd be able to call this show family and friendship affirming programing. Family and friends often act monsterously towards eachother which doesn't affirm my faith in either. However, I do have to say to say despite that, there's a real consciousness of morality boubling underneath the surface. How many other shows are so focussed on right/wrong and good/evil? Just about every week Christian and Sean are searching and stumbling for the answers. The consciousness of morality comes not from the characters leading perfectly moral lives but from the consequences of their struggles and failures. These people make mistakes and they suffer from those mistakes. There's a cause and effect. I don't think this show is glorifying bad behavior. Most of these people are hurt, lonely, and lost. For all of Christian's bravado, he admitted to the pedophile priest that he had lost his soul (or so he belives) and he isn't saying that with glee. He's saying that with pain, frustration and loss. He wants a soul. He wants to see goodness in himself.
I'm a fan of this show. Believe it or not, I can be pretty conservative in how I live my life. The two are not mutually exclussive. I see the PTC as an institution of warped morality. They don't speak for me. It's so concerned with flesh and sex that it misses the larger point of morality. Morality is simply a set of ethics created to nurture the rest of the world and yourself. Sex one tiny piece of that ethical pie. Treat people with kindness and promote kindness in the world. Respect the inherent dignity and worth of life. Seeing a few nipples and asscracks is the least of my concerns. I'm far more offended by violence without consequence than I am by grapic sex. At least rape has consequence on this show as opposed to soaps where it's pimped out for sweeps, white washed later, and then forgotten. I'm far more offended by casual cruelty that isn't even acknowledged or worse yet promoted as cool. At least when these people behave badly, it isn't cool. When Matt, tears apart everybody who loved him, it isn't written as badass. It's written as dysfucntion and mean. On another show, that wouldn't be the case."