Good actin'

I caught a Nip/Tuck rerun recently and watched it because it featured Rosie O'Donnell even though for the most part this show is truly disgusting. She was good, and Oliver Platt was great. GREAT. I've always liked him. Ever since Flatliners. Which in my 9th grade mind was a really good movie. I thought he was the most hilarious thing in that.

And in this episode of Nip/Tuck - WOW. He just blew me away. Especially in his scene with Roma Maffia when she challenged him to be who he really was. He was reliving the splendor of his experience at the Pride parade and bursting to say YES, I AM GAY! But he didn't. He was able to convey about 45 different emotions on his face at the same time, and it was clear what each one of them was. Amazing.

I maintain that Nip/Tuck is a vile show. Not just in terms of the (VILE) graphic scenes but in terms of what side of humanity it insists on revealing: the vile side.

You can watch a sequence of Platt's scenes in this episode here. The scene I admired so much starts about 3:10 into this. Really, this entire 9 minutes or so is totally worth watching. He is so, so good. It's all very touching and funny. It's too bad the show can't be more like these scenes all the time. He and Rosie are great together - it's funny and sad and sweet. "I wish I could take your pain away." This man needs an Emmy. I mean it.