Saving face

Play it: Nip/Tuck ep. 3.09
Play it: Nip/Tuck Season 2

Here it is Thursday night and I'm just getting to this week's Nip/Tuck... the songs are getting harder to track down. This episode's soundtrack utilizes minimalist/avant-garde composer Steve Reich, whose cannon of work is rich and deep. He experimented heavily with phasing early in his career, and later developed a social-political commentary in his compositions. "Dolly" (used in Nip/Tuck during the first phase of a face transplant surgery) is a 7-part piece that deals with the cloning of animals (Dolly being the sheep cloned in Scottland.) The second piece "Proverb," shows Reich's shows some of influence on Ambient and Electronica, both genres which figure heavily in Nip/Tuck's soundtrack choices, and composer James Levine's incindental work done for the show.

Back to the face-transplant, the concept was recently in the news and has some ethical repercussions not unlike some that cloning does (tying it back to "Dolly," though, not nearly in the same degree.) It's enough of a draw to pull Sean back in - well, that and the fact that Quentin is wearing his cocaine habit through his sweat glands. So, as suspected/expected, Sean will be back in and Quentin will be gone... but not before some fireworks from the ex-partner/ex-wife hookup revelation to come. Quentin's shallowness has made Christian the moral one (never thought you'd see that,) and he now is taking it home to the porn-biz fiance w/ an ultimatum - me or the porn biz, baby. We can see already that Kimber's biz has her confidant enough to call that bluff... and if it isn't, so be it. I guess this season is really about lionizing the ladies, as Julia and Gina march on with their new biz venture.

Here Sean was ready to go Witless-Protection for Anne Heche until he found out what it really meant (how could he not know, being a hired-hand for the process?) Giving up contact with his family (and acid-burning the fingerprints off his hands) were enough to turn him off the whole thing. It was just a big-toe dip, anyway, right?

You'll notice I also included all of Season 2's soundtrack, and likewise, here's Season 1 in tandem:
Nip/Tuck Season 1
Nip/Tuck Season 2

More:
Full song list posted on niptuckfans.com (eventually compiled by Avalon)

Previously:
Through the miracle of plastic surgery (Ep. 3.08)
Completeness by reduction (Eps. 3.06 & 3.07)
Pretador not posing as prey (Ep. 3.05)
Recognizing restraint (Ep. 3.04)
When 3+1=2 (Ep. 3.03)
Ape humanized, human animalized (Ep. 3.02)
Bad cop, goooood cop (Ep. 3.01)

tags: playlist, music, soundtrack, nip tuck, steve reich