The second half of the season went lighter on the guest cast, bringing show favorites to the forefront lie Liz Cruz, but found new lightness in Raj, played by Adhir Kalyan, the young and obsessive, yet endlessly humorous Indian intern. Loaded with guest stars from returning characters like Rosie O'Donnell to new initiates to the Nip/Tuck fold ( Oliver Platt, Bradley Cooper, Portia de Rossi, Lauren Hutton, Sharon Gless and newcomer AnnaLynne McCord) the first half of Season 5 fell into the all too common rut of losing main characters in the shuffle of all the guest stars. With the recent premiere of the second half of the season, the show's prognosis took a turn for the worse and the moving stories and dramatic characters we'd grown to love and hate over the four previous seasons were soon drowning in a sea of choppy storytelling, misplaced emotional beats and undeveloped characters. And after being harshly split by the Writers' Guild Strike spanning from the fall of 2007 to the early months of 2008, Nip/Tuck was forced to finish out the season this past January, nearly a year after the mid-season finale and cliffhanger.

Though rife with potential in the carefully-crafted, if slow-starting, first few episodes of the season that had Sean and Christian delving into the dark depths of their new neighborhood, the slow-developing stories throughout the first half of the season had the characters treading water and gasping for breath.

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