This Wednesday Famke Janssen returns to the FX show Nip/Tuck as Ava Moore, the season two nemesis highly regarded by most fans as the best villain to appear on the show. Since Nip/Tuck has only two episodes left before it ends the writers are hoping that by bringing the infamous character back the show will go out on a bang. They need all the help they can get, as this show is suffering in a bad way.
This once great show has been going down in quality since the third season. When fans look back longingly at the third season, after they once complained that it was terrible, you know the show is in bad shape. At this point it’s just a shell of it’s former depraved self. I’ll even admit that I’m only watching the remaining episodes because the show is ending and I’ve stuck with the show for so long I should see it to the end. Obviously bringing Ava back is a last ditch effort to recapture its former glory. However, my fear is that this move will backfire and instead tarnish the memory of this deliciously vile character. Which is understandable since the last time they brought back a previous villain his former memory become tarnished. I’m talking about when they brought back season one villain Escobar.
During the first season Sean and Christian encountered Escobar, a sinisterly charismatic drug dealer who confronted the doctors when they performed surgery on one of his associates. After the associate died on the operating table Sean and Christian were forced to dump the body in the Florida everglades. Later in the season Escabar used the incident to force the doctors to remove heroin filled breast implants from desperate women. After several tense surgeries, one of which led to anesthesiologist Liz being shot in the leg, Escobar offered to leave the two alone in exchange for changing his face so he could leave the country and get off the top 10 most wanted list. The plan backfired as instead they altered his face so he looked like another man on the most wanted list and he was arrested at the airport.
While he made a few appearances as a representation of Sean’s darker impulses the character didn’t physically reappear until the middle of the fourth season. He convinced the doctors to change his appearance back or he would reveal what they did. They performed the surgery and he was able to escape while recovering. If his story line had ended here it would have been fine. But instead it was later revealed that he was the ring leader in the organ harvesting plot of the fourth season.
This reveal made little sense. Not only was the character in prison while this was going on, but he looked like a different person. To me it’s a hard sell that he was able to convince his workers that he was really Escabar and run his operation behind bars. Furthermore this reveal seemed to only be created in order to lead to the character being shot and killed in the finale of that season. They should have just left his story line alone instead of bringing him back and ruining it.
The treatment of Escabar makes me very uneasy on Ava Moore’s return. In my opinion she is the best villain to have appeared on the show, even more so then Escabar and The Carver. She brilliantly manipulated everyone in her wake and led to several memorable plot turns, such as entering into a relationship with Matt and then revealing to him that Christian was his biological father. Like many intriguing villains you root for her even when she destroys the lives of the heroes. It would be terrible if her return destroys the integrity and perception of her character.
The only thing to do now is wait for Wednesday’s episode and hope the writers don’t mess it up.
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