The “Nip/Tuck” series about two Miami plastic surgeons and their variously complicated lives will embark on its fifth season Tuesday, Oct. 30.

The FX Networks show is a cinematic mocking of two plastic surgeons’ lives, Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh) and Christian Troy (Julian McMahon) and of the messed-up existences of people around them.

Julian McMahon told the New York Daily News: “Seasons 3 and 4 were not my favorites… Three, everything was about people dying, it was so morbid, so depressing and dark. I didn't like it at all. Season 4, I thought we got a little bit better, lightened up a little.”

With the fifth season, the guys move to Los Angeles where Sean and Christian have opened a clinic on Rodeo Drive, assuming they’d make good business in L.A. the way they did in Miami. But there are no long lines outside their clinic and they appear to have zero business, with Liz (Roma Maffia), their anesthesiologist, commenting, “You're chum being devoured by all the Rodeo Drive great whites.”

Ryan Murphy, the show’s creator, executive producer, head writer and frequent director, said: “One of the things that we wanted to do by moving this show to L.A. is to explore the theme of L.A., which is people who come to this city, as I did, to reinvent themselves and go after their dreams.”

Before moving to Los Angeles in the late 1990s to try his hand at screenwriting, Murphy was a journalist, working for newspapers as the Miami Herald and the New York Daily News. And he made a great move. So he thought why wouldn’t McNamara and Troy do the same thing?

“The show is really about them suddenly on Rodeo Drive and surrounded by dozens of other plastic surgeons who have been here forever,” Murphy said. “And how do they make it? How do they become the top king-makers again?”

Soon after they come to L.A., the two surgeons do hit the jackpot. They are offered work as consultants on a TV medical drama called “Hearts and Scalpels” by a publicist played by Lauren Hutton.

Murphy says: “Through that show, they get to explore the idea of, ‘Can we be stars or not?’” it is through their work for this show that the two doctors rebuild their reputations.

With a parade of great guest stars like Joely Richardson as Julia McNamara, John Hensley as Matt McNamara, Roma Maffia as Liz Cruz and Kelly Carlson as Kimber Henry, the fifth series of “Nip/Tuck” becomes better and richer.

The new season will still contemplate issues such as the human ego, success, marriage, appearance, and, of course, sex, as fans are already used from the previous seasons.