| Season Number: | 4 |
| Bgcolour: |
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| Num Episodes: | 15 |
| Network: | FX |
| Prev Season: | Season 3 |
| Next Season: | Season 5 |
| Episode List: | List of Nip/Tuck episodes |
The fourth season of Nip/Tuck premiered on September 5, 2006 and concluded on December 12, 2006. It consisted of 15 episodes.
See also: List of Nip/Tuck episodes.
| Season premiere | Season finale | Viewers total (in millions) | Viewers age 18–49 (in millions) | ||||||||
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| Date | span style="width:7%; font-size:smaller; font-weight:bold; line-height:100%;" | Viewers total (in millions) | span style="width:7%; font-size:smaller; font-weight:bold; line-height:100%;" | Viewers 18–49 (in millions) | Date | span style="width:7%; font-size:smaller; font-weight:bold; line-height:100%;" | Viewers total (in millions) | span style="width:7%; font-size:smaller; font-weight:bold; line-height:100%;" | Viewers 18–49 (in millions) | ||
| September 5, 2006 | 4.8[1] | 3.4 | December 12, 2006 | 3.38[2] | 2.38[3] | 3.9 | 2.75 | ||||
The fourth season received positive reviews from critics, holding a 71% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[4] Maria Elena Fernandez of the Los Angeles Times wrote "Perhaps the show's continued success can be attributed to its restless energy and how in one hour it offers a taste of several different genres, mixing the real with the outrageous",[5] whilst Brian Lowry wrote for Variety, "As always, the series manages to glorify surface beauty while subjecting society's obsession with it to a harsh glare, holding up the strange cases that waltz in as a mirror to the Sean-Julia-Christian triangle. The dialogue remains biting as well."[6] Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune praised the character development, writing "That sense of saucy transgression married to surprisingly effective character development – the magic formula of the first two seasons – is a bit wobbly this year, but Nip/Tuck is more or less back on track."[7] Some reviews were less favorable, with Joe Reid of The Atlantic writing "This stretch of Nip/Tuck was just uninspired ... [It has] its own urban-legend charm, but all the main characters were seriously spinning their wheels",[8] whilst other critics argued the show did not live up to the quality of previous seasons and criticized many imbued scenes.[9] [10]