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Nurse Jackie: Episode 11: “Pill-O-Matix”


NURSE JACKIE

SEASON 1 EPISODE 11

“PILL-O-MATIX”

Edie Falco as Nurse Jackie Peyton

Edie Falco as Nurse Jackie Peyton

With one episode left, it’s hard to believe season 1 of Nurse Jackie is almost over!!

What a great season it has been to this point, and it shows no signs of slowing down. For those of you who have yet to see this episode, be warned:

IT CONTAINS SPOILERS!!

In this episode, Pill-O-Matix, which is the name of the machine that will be replacing Eddie in the pharmacy, we learn that it’s not the machine they were expecting, but a cheaper version.

During mother and daughter tap class, Jackie has a run-in with her old school mate and her daughter, prompting her to take herself and Grace out of the class altogether. So whatever progress Grace was making, this incident just set her back, oh, probably to episode 1!

Kevin wants to surprise Jackie with a replacement wedding ring, but the surprise is almost ruined by Fiona, who almost spilled the beans on Kevin’s plans.

Dr. Cooper, after being kissed by Jackie in the previous episode, decides to call it quits with his current girlfriend, Melissa. He tells her he kissed another woman and he is having feelings that he never felt before. Makes one wonder if  ”Coop” has really ever had much luck with women in the first place. He develops a crush on Jackie, plying her with flowers and coffee and gum, because he asked Zoey what things Jackie liked. Jackie does not like this unwanted attention.

During a lunch-time shopping spree with Jackie and O’hara, we learn that O’Hara’s mother is in a coma, for which she blames her step-father.

Elsewhere, a popular television movie critic (guest star Victor Garber) is admitted to the ER with a broken elbow incurred by walking and using his laptop at the same time.  Mrs. Akalitus introduces herself to the movie critic, and they seem to have a lot in common career-wise, and the fact that he is divorced even seems to light up her day. I’m thinking we won’t be seeing the last of this blossoming storyline. When interviewed by Zoey, he tells her he hates cats, which doesn’t sit well with her. Then the very next minute administers the wrong dosage of a pain killer which puts him into a coma.  Jackie has her removed from the floor and limited to desk duty.

For a going away gift from Eddie, he shows Jackie how to override the pill machine so she can still get her fix now that he will no longer be around. He still wants to keep seeing Jackie, and now they wouldn’t have to sneak around at work. He wants them to move their relationship to the next level by meeting her kid, too! He sets her up with some Oxycontin for the meantime, and they have one last fling (for now) right on the machine itself. Now how’s that for irony??

After work, Zoey, Mo-mo and Thor go out for pizza and the boys try to reassure Zoey that what happend was only a mistake and they too have made their fare share as well. And Zoey finally figures out that nurse Thor is an openly gay man!!

In the final scene, we see Jackie plucking two flowers from an arrangement she threw in the trash earlier from Dr. Cooper, heads to Kevin’s bar and presents them to Fiona and Grace, who rejects mom’s offer. I have noticed that every time Jackie and Eddie get it on, her guilt gets the best of her and she presents her girls with little tokens of her love. As the camera pulls away from the happy family gathering, we see that Eddie had followed Jackie home, and we see him looking through the window of the bar to find out that not only does Jackie have a kid, but another kid and Husband to boot!!

I cannot wait until the season finale next week to see what goes down, and I’m sure you’re all with me on that one!

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Nurse Jackie Episode 8: “Pupil”


NURSE JACKIE

SEASON 1 EPISODE 8

“PUPIL”

More fun and adventures in store for Nurse Jackie and the staff at All Saints Hospital in episode 8, brilliantly directed again by Steve Buscemi, entitled “Pupil”.

Jackie arrives to work only to have Mrs. Akalitus inform her that due to budget cuts, she is 4 nurses short, then introduces Jackie to a temp Sam, who’s trying to take insurance information from a Mrs. Greenfield (guest star Andrea Martin) who was hit by a car and has a head wound. Sam doesn’t appear too bright, so Jackie takes over. Jackie informs Zoey she’s going to be on her own today and she needs to do better than the time she gave a drug addict six percocet for a non-existent broken finger.

Mrs. Akalitis is still looking after the abandoned baby from last week. She was going to call social services to get the baby, so why is she still keeping it around? I think it’s just wonderful to see a different, dare I say, human side to her. I quite like it myself, but as we know, she too was a nurse, and it just comes second nature to her to be nurturing.

Mrs. Greenfield is taken for a CAT scan and wants Dr. Cooper to meet her daughter Melissa when he comes back, but he isn’t answering his pages (again). When Jackie finally locates Cooper and has to yell at him again to start using his pager, she gets a call from Grace at school after having a panic attack. He sees this as an opportunity to snap back at her, about the way she talks to him, she tells him to shut up because she’s talking to her kid. He shuts up. Of course, even though she asked him to keep the information to himself, he runs off to tell Eddie.

After Zoey rolls an enormous man down the hallway and accidentally goes over temp nurse Sam’s foot, and he never even flinched, she notices that he is glassy-eyed and informs Jackie she thinks that Sam may be on something.

jackie-peyton-pictureAt lunch, Jackie informs Dr. O’Hara about Grace’s panic attack at school and about Cooper finding out she has a kid in the first place. Unfortunately, she is unaware that Eddie also knows this to be true until she pays him a visit later on and he asks how her kid is doing.

Mrs. Greenfield needs surgery but seems more concerned about introducing her daughter Melissa to Dr. Cooper. Cooper tracks down her other daughter Amy in the hall and asks her if she thinks her sister would go out with him. What a way this man has with women, huh?

Armed with her new evidence about temp nurse Sam, Jackie tells him he has two choices. He can leave now or go up to employee services and pee in a cup. Either way, she doesn’t want to see him again. As she’s walking away he says “it takes one to know one.”

Jackie drops by Eddie, exhausted. He asks how her kid is. She apologizes and tells her she can explain when she’s ready. He asks if there’s anything else he should know about, and she says ‘No’. I guess she forgot about her husband Kevin and younger daughter Fiona?

At Kevin’s bar, Jackie’s name is called to the open mike. She resists, but relents when Kevin tells her Grace put her name in. She sings “Up on the Roof” and watches as her daughter smiles, but only for a moment and then her reality returns.

What is in store for Jackie and the staff at All Saints Hospital next time?

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Nurse Jackie Episode 10: “Ring Finger”


NURSE JACKIE

SEASON 1 EPISODE 10

“RING FINGER”

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When we last saw Jackie Peyton, she was suggesting to her daughter Grace that they do more things together as mother and daughter. Episode 10 of this fantastic series opens with the pair taking mother/daughter dance class together, where they end up running into an old high school classmate and her daughter. The daughter whispers in Grace’s ear that her mom was Grace’s dad’s girlfriend before her mom. Jackie and Grace get a big laugh over that one.

Back at work, Dr. O’Hara tries to smooth things over with Jackie, and notices that Jackie still has her wedding ring on. Whoops! Jackie seems to be having a problem getting her ring finger off. Meanwhile a cardiac arrest patient is admitted to the ER, and try as they may, Dr. Cooper and the nurses are unable to revive the young man. Jackie decides to tie up any loose ends and finds the man’s cell phone ringing, takes it out of his pocket and finds out that according to his text messages, he was on his way to someone’s house, most likely on a date. Since the man never showed up on time, the person on the other end of the conversation becomes mad. Jackie uses the phone to call whomever this person was and leaves a message to come to the hospital right away.  In the man’s possession was a rented movie, and some letters and bills to be mailed, minus the postage.

Dr. Cooper finds out Jackie went behind his back and signed off on the brain-dead patient from last week and goes off on her. She reminds him that he is never around and refuses to answer his pages when called, so she saw no other choice. He threatens to blow the whistle on her. When she confronts him later about his threats, he gets nervous again and grabs her breast. Rather than admonish him, she calms him down, shows him there are no hard feelings and then gives him a kiss.

At this point no one has replied to the message Jackie left concerning the cardiac arrest man.

The Pharmacy is getting prepared to receive the pill dispensing machine so Jackie finds Eddie in the back room, where they start to get busy, only to have Zoey accidentally walk in on them. Later Jackie Zoey agree that what she saw stayed between them.

Jackie decides she has no choice but to have Dr. O’Hara cut her wedding ring off her finger, and she’ll think of something to tell Kevin. Jackie decides to take a hammer and smash her ring finger, making it look like an accident, forcing her ring to be cut off.

On her way home, Jackie takes one last look in the cardiac arrest man’s bag of goodies, takes out the man’s mail, puts her own postage on it and drops it in the mailbox on her way. As she is walking to the subway, the man’s phone finally rings, she answers it and we finally have some closure.

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Nurse Jackie Episode 9: “Nosebleed”


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SEASON 1 EPISODE 9jackieandcooper

“NOSEBLEED”

Jackie and Kevin take the girls to the park. Fiona has a fit when one of her balloons pops. She has one and Grace has two, so Grace lets one of hers go so they both have 1 balloon.  Awwwwwwwwww. How sweet of Grace. Maybe she is getting better? Don’t bet on it, folks.

At lunch Grace worries about germs. See? I said don’t bet on it. Grace wants Mom to not go to work, and Jackie thinks maybe she should spend some time with Grace. Kevin tells her he will handle it. Grace wants the hospital to burn down. Then what, Grace? Mom and Dad can’t send you to that pricey Catholic school to exorcise whatever devil it is that’s bothering you!

On her way to the hospital Jackie meets a homeless man she knows and has treated before. She watches as he collapses on the street. She rushes to help and she notices some blood. It’s coming from her nose! When they get the homeless man Mr. Everitt to the ER, Dr. O’Hara comments that one of the man’s feet will have to be amputated. Mrs. Akalitus has to pop in and remind them that this was a hospital and not a shelter, before returning to her office to hang out with the unclaimed baby and groove to some Billie Holiday music.

Dr. Cooper gets a visit from Melissa Greenfield from last week’s episode, who brings him a bag lunch.

In the ER, paramedics bring in a stoned kid who’s brain dead from a car accident.  Cooper is not answering his pages so Jackie goes through the kids pockets to see if he has a organ donor card. She claims to have found one, when in all actuality, it was a PETA membership card.

Mrs. Akalitus questions Mo-mo in her office about if any of his gay friends have ever adopted any kids and if so, how. She would appreciate it if he could find out for her.
Dr. Cooper, as usual, is nowhere to be found and not answering any of his pages, as usual. In the waiting room Jackie has a run-in with a snooty woman who wants her boys head lice treated. Turns out she has an upper-class address and won’t take her boys to their regular hospital or Doctor and she won’t treat them at home because she doesn’t want to touch them. Jackie treats the boys, and then has 6 cases of lice shampoo sent to the woman’s home. Without a bag!  You gotta love this woman!!
Mo Mo tells Jackie the brain dead pot kids’ parents are against organ donation, and Cooper is still not answering his pages!!

A man from child services tells Mrs. Akalitus that they found the parents of the abandoned baby and they have come forward. At this point Akalitus is torn about handing the baby over to them, especially after finding out the baby’s name is Dalton!

Eddie reveals to Jackie that he would like to meet her kid sometime, and maybe move their relationship to the next level. Not so sure how that’s going to sit with Kevin!

Dr. Cooper’s signature is needed for the paperwork on the brain-dead druggie, but he is nowhere to be found and won’t answer his pager. Jackie finds him locked in exam room 3 with the door locked, making out with Melissa. Jackie then tells the transplant team she saw Cooper verify the patient was brain dead. Just like Dr. Cooper, huh?

Jackie goes to see Dr. O’Hara about her nosebleeds. O’Hara mentions that she has told her sister in Paris about Jackie’s being married and having an affair, because her sister is doing the exact same thing, but isn’t able to juggle the two as well as Jackie. This upsets Jackie since she tells O’Hara these things in the strictest of confidences. O’Hara tells Jackie she thinks of her as a sister as well. “Think again,” Jackie tells her, feeling her privacy has been compromised.

Mrs. Akalitus meets with the parents of baby Dalton, and finds out they left the baby because they needed some free time to themselves. To hopefully teach them a lesson, Mrs. Akalitus tells them their baby is dead. As the parents start to cry, she says “He’s not dead”, and reveals that their baby was in the room the whole time. She warns them not to be stupid next time or she will see that they go to jail. Before they are allowed to leave with their baby, she makes them sign a waiver, freeing the hospital of all liability. I wonder now, how this is going to effect Mrs. Akalitus, and how or if she will take this out on Jackie and her staff?

On her way home, Jackie passes the lounge and sees a movie with Shirley Temple dancing. Jackie calls Grace and suggests they should do more things together like maybe taking cooking or dance classes. Grace agrees. Jackie stops by the lounge and sees people dancing on TV. She calls Grace and suggests they do something together like take cooking or dance classes together. Grace agrees.

All I have to say is this show gets better with each episode, and is quickly becoming one of my favorite new shows on television anywhere.

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Nurse Jackie: Season 1; Episode 7: “Steak Knife”


NURSE JACKIE: 1.7

“STEAK KNIFE”

Jackie tells Dr. O’Hara that they decided to send their daughter Grace to the private school “Immaculate Virgin”. Dr. O’Hara offers to pay for the school, but Jackie refuses. Before they enter the hospital, Jackie notices that Dr. O’Hara is wearing two different shoes and asks if everything is alright, O’Hara shrugs it off as if it was not a big deal.

A new patient named Zak is brought to the ER with multiple stab wounds to the chest. The patient’s date, a young woman named Lori, reveals that they were on their first date when her ex-husband showed up despite a restraining order and stabbed her date.

Meanwhile, Mrs. Akalitus discovers a baby in a baby car seat. When she asks for its parents, no one answers.

Dr. Cooper joins Dr. O’Hara and Jackie who take care of the stab wound patient. Jackie wants to send him away, but Dr. O’Hara tells a surprised Jackie that she prefers him to stay. Soon later, she tells Dr. Cooper to take over for her and leaves the room.

Jackie visits Eddie who texted her several times. He has a present for her, a bracelet, because it’s their anniversary. Jackie gets the date wrong (apparently she mixed up her and Eddie’s 1 year anniversary of having sex together, with her and Keith’s wedding anniversary), and when she doesn’t want to wear the bracelet, Eddie gets angry, apologizing that it’s not made of  Vicodin, and takes it back from her. This pisses Jackie off and she tells him to keep his bracelet AND his pills. 

Elsewhere, a child molester has been admitted, and Zoey needs Jackie’s help because she can’t take out the man’s katheder. When Jackie finds out the man is a child molester, she removes the katheder with a quick yank, causing the patient to scream in agony. Mo-mo who witnessed Jackie’s behavior orders her to go for a walk. She reveals she is upset because she had a fight with her boyfriend after she forgot their anniversary. Mo-mo, stunned to find out Jackie has a boyfriend, asks why she never told him. “Because you do all the talking, hun.”BRACELET

When Dr. Cooper is in Eddie’s dispensary for lunch, he swoons over the bracelet Eddie got for Jackie, and tells him to keep it. Later, Jackie talks to Lori, the friend of the steak knife victim Zak. She reveals that Zak is the first nice guy she met and after what happened she believes he won’t want to go out with her anymore. While this is all happening around her, Mrs. Akalitus walks through the hospital, still looking for the baby’s parents, and
Jackie notices that Dr. Cooper is wearing the bracelet Eddie wanted to give to her.

Jackie seeks Dr. O’Hara in her office to pour her heart out to her. Jackie tells her about the bracelet and the anniversary she forgot. Meanwhile, Dr. O’Hara takes a Xanax and Jackie wants to know what’s going on, but Dr. O’Hara still refuses to tell her. However, she offers Jackie a Xanax pill. While Dr. O’Hara looks away, Jackie takes more han one pill out of the box and hides them in her pocket. After Jackie has swallowed the pill, O’Hara advises her to clean up her mess.  Jackie goes to see Eddie and apologizes. She asks for the bracelet, but tells him that she doesn’t want to wear it at work.  Eddie agrees and takes the bracelet away from Dr. Cooper, who for my money was strangely too enamored with it in the first place!

Mrs. Akalitus still hasn’t found the baby’s parents, but is trying to keep it entertained by shaking a paperclip holder as a rattle, when Jackie approaches her and takes a paper clip out of the baby’s mouth. It’s at this time Mrs. Akalitus announces that she is informing social services about the baby.

Jackie checks on the steak knife victim Zak. She asks him to let Lori see him, but he refuses because he thinks it’s too dangerous. Jackie decides to increase his morphine dose. While he’s floating on his morphine cloud, she talks at Zak and tells him to see Lori and gives him Eddie’s bracelet to give it to Lori. Jackie sends Lori to his room, when O’Hara appears and tells her that her day wasn’t easy and she will be alone after work while Jackie will be going home to her family and Jackie invites her over.

At home, over a bottle of scotch, O’Hara talks about her trouble with her step father that has bothered her all day. The next morning, Fiona is making coffee for her, when O’Hara notices an unpaid bill from the water and power companies on Jackie’s kitchen table and puts it in her purse.  Soon after, Jackie and Kevin enter the kitchen, as well as Grace in her uniform of her new school.  While O’Hara helps Grace with her hair, Kevin spies the bill in her purse and takes out. Without saying anything, Jackie asks Kevin not to make a scene, but it’s pretty obvious to me that he was pissed.

So what’s up with Dr. O’Hara? How long can Jackie keep up her affair with Eddie before Kevin finds out? How will Grace cope in Catholic school? Will Mrs. Akalitus ever find the parents of the baby left at the hospital?

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Nurse Jackie Season 1; Episode 5

Nurse Jackie Season 1; Episode 5

“Daffodil”

Well, fans, Nurse Jackie and staff are pulling the Night Shift in episode 5. Daughter Grace is still having emotional problems, which worries her. At work Jackie gives Zoey the run-down on night shift duties, deals with a stroke victim and his squabbling family and a ten-year-old girl comes to the ER with her Lupis afflicted mother.  The girl claims her grandmother is coming to pick them up, which turns out not to be true.  This poor girl is her Mom’s sole caregiver. Mom is admitted to ICU but Mrs. Akalitus won’t allow the girl to be with her mother in the ICU because she is underage, but of course, Jackie sneaks her in.

Dr. Cooper forms an unlikely bond with Eddie, much to the dismay of Jackie, who is in desperate need of some pain killers, but when she goes down to the Pharmacy, she finds Eddie there with Dr. Cooper enjoying a Quizno’s dinner.  Dr. Cooper confesses to Eddie that Jackie can be kinda bitchy at times, but he grabbed her boob once, and she was cool with it.  This did not sit too well with Eddie and even when Dr. Cooper explained that it was a neurological disorder, Eddie could see right through him.  Momo has an unwelcome admirer in fellow nurse Thor, and tries to avoid him at all costs.  Jackie is too busy to join Dr. O’Hara for dinner, so Zoey takes her place instead and O’Hara takes her to a 4-star restaurant, where the conversation gets a little uncomfortable until Zoey happens to mention that her father was in jail for manslaughter.

Edie Falco is Nurse JackieStephanie is able to take her Mom home, and Jackie makes sure they don’t leave without a goodie bag from the pharmacy, and her cell number in case Stephanie ever has any problems with Mom. Jackie’s stroke patient’s family becomes to hard to handle and they don’t think she’s doing enough for her husband, so Jackie makes up some notecards for the man so he can tell his nagging wife to “Shut the F**K UP! Seriously.”  Mrs. Akalitus accidentally tasers herself when she finds a taser lying about the hospital floor.  Back at home Kevin informs Jackie that Grace had a complete meltdown when her pencil lead kept breaking, and receives a call on her cell from Stephanie that her Mom was having problems moving her arm.  Jackie instructs her to take one of the Percocets (little blue pills) she gave her, cut 1 in half and give it to her with some juice.  As we see Jackie talking Stephanie through the procedure, we see Jackie doing the same thing at home, and afterwards tells Stephanie, “She’ll be fine!”

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Nurse Jackie Season 1 Episode 3

Nurse Jackie is back with episode 3 “Chicken Soup”. Kevin is worried that their oldest daughter Grace may have a problem when all she wants to do is watch documentaries about world war NURSE JACKIEand disease. An elderly man with congestive heart disease and a triple bypass in 1994 refuses treatment and instead his wife comes in to sit with homemade chicken soup from home and feeds him, saying it’s the only medicine he needs.

Jackie sees Eddie for more meds for her troubling back and he informs her that he is going to be replaced with a pill dispensing machine, which ticks Jackie off to no end prompting her to turn to the least likely of people for help:  Doctor “Coop” Cooper. She asks him if he will vote against the hospital replacing Eddie with a robot, which of course makes “Coop” assume she has a little crush on Eddie.  Boy, if he only knew!

A young couple visiting New York from Ohio make an emergency visit when the girlfriend starts suffering from abdominal pains, which leads Jackie to order a pregnancy test only to have the results come back negative for pregancy but positive for opiates.  The girl had gotten hooked ever since she had wisdom teeth pulled and her doctor put her on vicadin for the pain.

Dr. O’Hara borrows Zoeys brand new thethoscope that her mother bought for her to check a paitents heart and never returns it, prompting Jackie to remind her that it is part of her uniform and she better have it on her at all times. Little does she know Dr. O’Hara is pulling a prank on her.  After several unsuccessful  attempts to try and ask for it back, Zoey runs into O’Hara sitting in the hall apparently taking a catnap, sunglasses on and all.  Zoey manages to get the thethoscope back and as she turns to walk away we see a sly grin come over O’hara’s face proving that she was aware of it the whole time.

Chicken soup man ultimately passes away, his wife telling Jackie that she knew all along of the pain he was in even though he didn’t thinks she knew, but as she said, “We were married for 100 years. How could I not know.”

Back at home after a long day at work, Jackie trys to console Grace as she asks if there could ever be another disease or flu that could wipe out the population. She confidently tells her no. Not with todays medicine. Then trys to get Grace to try some soup. It is good for her. It will help what troubles her.

Need I have to tell you what kind of soup that was? Hmmmmmmmmm?

I didn’t think so.  Once again, a wonderful episode.

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Nurse Jackie: Episode 2 Spoiler Alert!

SWEET ‘N’ ALL

Thanks to Comcast Ondemand services we are getting treated to next Monday’s episode a whole week early. ***This Post has spoilers***

Nurse Jackie is back for another exciting episode!  In episode 2,  “Sweet ‘N’ All”, Jackie substitutes a narcotic for her artificial sweetner, and hospital Administrator Mrs. Akalitus accidently dumps it in her coffee!  Mayhem in the ER causes nurse Zoey to rethink her choice of career.  Dr. Cooper correctly diagnoses a patient (YAY!).  A woman is admitted to the ER with 1st degree burns to her face after thinking it was a good idea to smoke with her oxygen tank on.  And an unruly patient sNURSE JACKIEtirs up trouble at the hospital.

All in a days work for Nurse Jackie!!

Can’t wait for the next episode!

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Watch Nurse Jackie, STAT!

“I don’t do chatty.  Quiet.  Quiet and mean. Those are my people,” Nurse Jackie tells first year nursing student Zoey Barkow (Merritt Wever) as they make rounds.  If you have’nt seen the fantastic new show,  “Nurse Jackie”  on Showtime following “Weeds“  on Monday nights, you are missing one of the best new shows of the season anywhere on television.   Created by Liz Brixius and Linda Wallem,  “Nurse Jackie” stars the always entertaining Edie (”Sopranos”) Falco stars as veteran New York ER Nurse Jackie Peyton,  who,  if  she isn’t busting the balls of a smug Ivy League Dr. Fitch “Coop” Cooper (Peter Facinelli)  for not following her advice causing a patient’s death (then forging the victim’s  organ donor card so some good can come out of his senseless death), stealing money from a man who nearly killed a prostitute and giving it to the man’s pregnant girlfriend,  she must make sense out of the chaos around her and level the playing field,  and not afraid of bending the rules NURSE JACKIEwhether her methods of justice are right or wrong.

Helping Jackie cope with day to day life in the ER are fellow nurse Mohammed “mo-mo” de la Cruz (Haaz Sleiman) her confidant with street-smarts and biting sense of humor, and her most unsual and unlikely best friend Dr. Eleanor O’Hara, who’s dislike for stupidity is matched only by her genuine affection and respect for Jackie.  They share the same sense of humor and are both intensely good yet intensely unsentimental at the same time.   Nurse Jackie accomplishes all of this day in and day out while on a regular diet of pain killers for her bad back supplied to her by her part-time lover pharmacist Eddie (Paul Schulze), before returning home after a hard days work to her two adorable daughters and loving husband.

Nurse Jackie will make you laugh and cry, but mostly it will make you think about the crumbling state of our country’s healthcare system.  I am not a Doctor, nor do I play one on TV, but I would definately prescribe a weekly dose of  Nurse Jackie.

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