The remainder of Season 5's episodes kicks off tonight, and I was lucky enough to get an advanced screener of tonight's installment and am gonna dish it up a little in the following paragraphs, because it is, thankfully, a really good episode. I will say beforehand, though, that there is one major thing that happens in the episode, which will be the driving force behind the entire rest of the season's storyline, and likely beyond. Telling you what it is would be a major spoiler, so don't worry, I'm not going to do that. But if you truly fear all spoilers of any kind, even just hinty ones -- which is all these are, really -- do not read ahead.

The episode opens right at the epic shanking of Sean by Colleen Rose, fleshing out the entire thing's events fully, and hilariously, to the tune of "Backstabbers" by the O'Jays. Nice to know they definitely haven't lost their sense of humor over the past five years. The song may have played over the last episode's stabbing coverage as well, but I don't remember it, probably because I wasn't aware that there was going to even be a stabbing at the time.

Then we abruptly cut to four months after the stabbing, and in typical Nip/Tuck fashion, no one's doing well. Sean is afraid to do surgeries and spending all his time teaching, and physically, I'll just say there's a lot wrong with him. But mentally, he's even worse.

Christian's dealing with a major health scare, that is both life-threatening and emasculating, and being that it's Christian, I'm sure you can guess which one upsets him more. So what do two down-and-out plastic surgeons do in such a situation? Naturally, floozies are picked up, and there is wild, meaningless, highly inventive sex had by all. Some of the best in the history of the series, I'd even wager!

In sideline news that will probably become important later, there's a new young, cocky doctor with some daddy issues running around McNamara/Troy driving them both nuts, which is funny but, you know, annoying. The kid is smart, but he needs to be slapped upside the head. No one talks to Christian like that except Julia. And me.

Speaking of Julia, she's not in the damn episode! The whole thing! Sean and Matt do talk about her amnesia for about three seconds in one scene, however. Apparently it's... coming along. I'm perfectly fine with as little time being spent on that storyline as possible, actually, but I did miss her.

And as always, Matt's trying for the 85,937,556,362nd time to get his life together. This time, he's trying to accomplish this by taking some classes at the community college, so I'm sure he'll be lured into gay porn or something else destructive by the end of the season. Oh, Matt. Bless his heart. You know, for such an epic failure in every way possible, he really does keep trying so hard. Seems contradictory, and yet, endearing. I'll allow it.

Other potent potables include: since Sean is teaching now, there was quite a bit of cadaver slicing in the classroom, which took me back to how fun and gross that was in Season 1. It was nice, and a good idea, plotwise. I mean, as much as hacking up dead people can be a nice and good idea. Oh, and Sean's got a flirty blonde student you know he's gonna be banging by next week, so she's so gonna turn out to be insane. I can't wait.

So there you have it. I can't really go on about all the things I hope to see for the rest of the season based on these events without spoiling the major plot twist for you, so I'll just end by saying that I'm happy with the way it's going. The Colleen Rose thing is done and over, and now we're dealing with the aftermath of it, and everything else seems to really be moving forward in an effective and purposeful way. And I'm really, really glad the show's back.

Thoughts? Leave some Nip/Tuck love and/or hate in the comments!