An addict to her job and painkillers, Jackie Peyton (Edie Falco) is an emergency room nurse at All Saints' Hospital in New York City. Despite her personal indiscretions, she handles doctors, nurses, and patients with stable grace. Nurse, addict, mother, wife, we wait and watch as Jackie's secrets unravels before our eyes.
Review during Season 2: Needless to say, all the characters in Nurse Jackie are lovable. They deliver funny lines but play mostly as Jackie's confidant. Sadly enough, besides Jackie and her best friend, Doctor O'Hara, we only have a glimpse to the other character's history. Hopefully as season two progresses, the other characters will develop some drama of their own. I am just too greedy. After all, the name of the show is Nurse Jackie.
*Vanity note: As much as I love Edie Falco, she looks very butch in her short hair cut. In season two, she looking more Ellen with her tan and highlights. Just when I lose a bit of hope, she surprises me with her rocking body: modest boobs but tight figure. Doctor O'Hara is my professional dress fashion icon.
Review during Season 1: Currently my favorite new running comedy!
Looking at the posters scampered around the Internet and the city, Nurse Jackie (Edie Falco) looks like a butch and bitter nurse, but something about the poster is intellectually seductive and I was hooked from the start! Overworked and secretive,Nurse Jackie hands out her own view of justice, while crossing major ethical boundaries. Adultery, drug addictions, and well written adult comedy is what you would find with this gem of a show. Another Showtime success! Just think of her as the female dramatized version of Dr. Perry Ulysses Cox of Scrubs: a veteran of the medical field still caring and mentoring with a pills to keep her going.
The plot carries from episode to episode with excellent writing, character development, and acting award winning acting that is. Nurse Jackie encompass interest without unthinkable scenarios of inter-sex orgy found Grey's Anatomy, the chronically irrelevant plot of Scrubs, and yes another inter-sex orgy, soap opera of developing douche bags on Nip/Tuck (a show I loved once for season 1 & 2 only, after season 2 it was a gang bang of drama, not the pleasant jerk off gang-bang to but dark and deary back alley possible STD infected ones).
My favorite character thus far is Eve Best's Dr. O'Hara, Jackie's best friend. She's is spoiled with taste and money, but upfront, funny, and astoundingly sincere. She's very similar to Sandra Oh on Grey's Anatomy, but better dressed and not so cold and contest driven. O'Hare is a doctor that I would want and a friend any girl (such as myself) would love to have.
Each episode starts and ends with character narration (also found the Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives,Scrubs just to mention a few). Instead of the pure heartfelt conclusion with a character pan tying each character to an metaphoric observation, Nurse Jackie displays brutally beautiful truth of herself (most of which is peppered with a realistic view of herself). So far each character is intriguing and unique . not to say that I have yet to be introduced to a straight male nurse but fingers crossed!
Review during Season 2: Needless to say, all the characters in Nurse Jackie are lovable. They deliver funny lines but play mostly as Jackie's confidant. Sadly enough, besides Jackie and her best friend, Doctor O'Hara, we only have a glimpse to the other character's history. Hopefully as season two progresses, the other characters will develop some drama of their own. I am just too greedy. After all, the name of the show is Nurse Jackie.
*Vanity note: As much as I love Edie Falco, she looks very butch in her short hair cut. In season two, she looking more Ellen with her tan and highlights. Just when I lose a bit of hope, she surprises me with her rocking body: modest boobs but tight figure. Doctor O'Hara is my professional dress fashion icon.
Review during Season 1: Currently my favorite new running comedy!
Looking at the posters scampered around the Internet and the city, Nurse Jackie (Edie Falco) looks like a butch and bitter nurse, but something about the poster is intellectually seductive and I was hooked from the start! Overworked and secretive,Nurse Jackie hands out her own view of justice, while crossing major ethical boundaries. Adultery, drug addictions, and well written adult comedy is what you would find with this gem of a show. Another Showtime success! Just think of her as the female dramatized version of Dr. Perry Ulysses Cox of Scrubs: a veteran of the medical field still caring and mentoring with a pills to keep her going.
The plot carries from episode to episode with excellent writing, character development, and acting award winning acting that is. Nurse Jackie encompass interest without unthinkable scenarios of inter-sex orgy found Grey's Anatomy, the chronically irrelevant plot of Scrubs, and yes another inter-sex orgy, soap opera of developing douche bags on Nip/Tuck (a show I loved once for season 1 & 2 only, after season 2 it was a gang bang of drama, not the pleasant jerk off gang-bang to but dark and deary back alley possible STD infected ones).
My favorite character thus far is Eve Best's Dr. O'Hara, Jackie's best friend. She's is spoiled with taste and money, but upfront, funny, and astoundingly sincere. She's very similar to Sandra Oh on Grey's Anatomy, but better dressed and not so cold and contest driven. O'Hare is a doctor that I would want and a friend any girl (such as myself) would love to have.
Each episode starts and ends with character narration (also found the Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives,Scrubs just to mention a few). Instead of the pure heartfelt conclusion with a character pan tying each character to an metaphoric observation, Nurse Jackie displays brutally beautiful truth of herself (most of which is peppered with a realistic view of herself). So far each character is intriguing and unique . not to say that I have yet to be introduced to a straight male nurse but fingers crossed!