Enough reality TV already– back to good old fashioned soapoperas.

Those of us in the market for a nighttime soap with all the sex,drama and obscene language related to them, can find their fix onFX Network every Tuesday night at 10 p.m.

“Nip/Tuck” just may be the best thing to hit cablesince “Sex and the City.” With the recent popularity ofplastic surgery for all ages and reasons, shows dealing with thetopic have become more intriguing. Two good-looking, rich, Miamiplastic surgeons discover the dark side of human vanity for an hourevery week, along with a slew of characters that are consumed bymoney, power, sex and beauty.

Miami provides a refreshing backdrop, in contrast to the trendof making New York or Los Angeles the setting. The two maincharacters of the show, Sean and Christian, are long-time friendswho decide to enter into a plastic surgery practice together. Theirpersonalities create a perfect balance of naughty versus nice. Seanis the morally sound family man, while Christian is theirresistible bad boy who viewers love to hate. The fun part is tosee how each of the men confronts surgical situationsdifferently.

The graphic nature of the show is what makes it so unique. Fourletter words that viewers don’t hear very often on basiccable, add to the show’s intensity. They’re notperforming real surgery, but somehow, through the magic ofHollywood, viewers are still able to see someone’s facialskin being cut and pulled off during a face lift, or awoman’s eyeballs being removed from their sockets to makeroom for realistic fiberglass eyeball implants. For anyoneconsidering having plastic surgery, watching this show will makethem think twice. Imagining your face under that scalpelisn’t a pretty sight.

Secondary to the excitement of the operating room is theexcitement of the doctor’s personal lives. Sean is involvedin a marriage that becomes increasingly dysfunctional by the end ofeach episode. As a viewer, you root for things to work out betweenSean and his wife Julia, but there’s a world of drama thatsurrounds them and their child.

The producers of the show do a wonderful job of presentingviewers with a fresh topic each week. The show tackles a lot ofmore serious issues that many shows don’t even attempt. Someof the more compelling topics have dealt with female mutilation,disfigurement by an attacker, and illegal backroom plastic surgerythat leaves patients with severely botched results. Despite theunderlying tones of morbidity within the show, the doctors areviewed as heroes for restoring their patient’s lives. Ah, theworld is a safe place after all.

For those who love drama with a medical twist,”Nip/Tuck” is high on the Tuesday night must-see list.If you have cable, that is.