This is a guy whose career is built on putting women into boxes – albeit different boxes, because the boxes of gay male artists look a little bit different than the boxes of straight male artists – and treating exploitation like it’s exaltation. But most of the time? Bad television.Įven worse? He makes misogynistic television. Sometimes he makes truly effective and emotionally engaging television. I reiterate: Ryan Murphy makes bad television, most of the time. Despite the sheen of cable television competence and pretty tanned white people (and could-not-be-less-tanned Joely Richardson), you could tell that Nip/Tuck relied on shock value and faux-edginess in order to sell its ridiculous plotlines.Īnd here it is that I must reveal one of my least popular opinions that I will shout from the rooftop: Ryan Murphy is not good. For me, that show was Nip/Tuck.Įven as a teenager, I knew that this show about two awful plastic surgeons who have a lot of sex and could be sued for hundreds of millions of dollars in malpractice, wasn’t good. If you wanted to watch a show that was, quite rightly for many reasons, on at 10:30 PM at night, you had to stay up and wait, hoping that your family didn’t hear the show you were watching. The biggest heap of it? Nip/Tuck, all available on TVNZ on Demand.īefore the age of streaming television, you couldn’t pick when you watched something. Before American Horror Story, before Glee, before Pose, Ryan Murphy was television’s biggest peddler of schlock.
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