Nurse Jackie just came back and premiered its new season, and it is bringing new stuff to the table; in this case, it´s time to talk about the guest star for the next episode: None other than New York Knicks star Forward Carmelo Anthony. Probably people will freak out, since New York Knicks are right in the middle of the battle to get to the playoffs, in a tight race with Continue reading
I told you a while back that Nurse Jackie was coming back in 2012 for season four. Well, now there are some casting news for that fourth season.
Award-winning actors Aida Turturro and Joel Grey will each guest star on one episode of the upcoming season of NURSE JACKIE. This will mark a reunion for series star Edie Falco and Turturro as both starred together on the long-running hit drama series The Sopranos. Production on season four of NURSE JACKIE is currently underway in New York for a 2012 premiere. The two stars join the recently announced Rosie Perez and Bobby Cannavale as season four guest stars.
Turturro earned a SAG® Award and two Emmy® nominations for her role as Janice, Tony Soprano’s (James Gandolfini) narcissistic, manipulative sister who often found herself on the wrong side of Tony’s wife Carmela, played by Falco. On NURSE JACKIE, Turturro will guest star in one episode in a pivotal role. She has made memorable performances on Curb Your Enthusiasm, Mercy, Medium and ER.
In addition, veteran stage and screen star Joel Grey will make an appearance in one episode as a patient suffering from dementia. Grey is one of only eight actors to win a Tony® and an Oscar® for playing the same role (Cabaret). He’s starred in countless films and television series, including Private Practice, Grey’s Anatomy, Brothers & Sisters, Oz and Alias. Most recently he co-directed the Tony®-winning revival of The Normal Heart and is currently starring on Broadway in Anything Goes.
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You know there´s a lot of shows about doctors, and there have always been a lot. And very few focusing on nurses, or giving nurses their fair share on doctors shows. Often nurses are the one night stand for a resident doctor and things like that.
Well, folks at Nurse Tips did an excellent piece about 10 Great TV Series about nursing, that include those shows led by Nurses, or giving nurses enough playing time as to be considered part of the leading cast.
Although there are a few inaccuracies (as stating ER as a current show), the list is very much spot on, although I´d make Nurse Jackie climb a little swapping her position with Jada Pinkett Smith´s Hawthorne.
ER has generally portrayed nurses as competent, caring health workers and avoided the most obvious stereotypes
What´s not to love about the pill-popping super nurse who also is a wife, mother and ex-lover to the hospital pharmacist.
This series featured vignettes about the nursing profession at the end of each of the series’ 39 episodes.
Chief Nurse Major Margaret Houlihan (Loretta Swit) offered authority, nursing skills, and commitment to the patients’ well being, and as the show went on she grew increasingly sympathetic.
The dramatic story of Mary Benjamin (Michael Learned), a middle-aged widow who attempts to begin a new life by resuming her career as a head nurse at Grant Memorial Hospital.
Revising the nursing from a sitcom perspective.
This show follow Christina Hawthorne, a Chief Nursing Officer ready for battle on the front lines of a war against declining patient services and hospital budget cuts.
This is the first Web-based reality show that aims to recruit more nurses to address the nursing shortage. NTV provides nurses, healthcare professionals and consumers with an in-depth look at the real-life medical drama of a profession where every second counts.
This Australian show followed the life of Helen Tremain (Susie Porter), the Remote Area Nurse, charged with providing medical services to the remote Torres Strait Islanders community.
Megan Roberts, the titular district nurse fighting to improve living conditions for the people living in a poverty-stricken mining town, Pencwm, in South Wales during the late 1920s.
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As the ying to the yang, the same day as Showtime cancelled United States of Tara in its third season, Showtime renewed Nurse Jackie for a fourth season.
Edie Falco is always on the top of her game in the show that averaged three quarters of a million viewers in its third run, and got a lot of praise for its undoubtful good quality.
Well, Showtime renewed Nurse Jackie making sure there will be a new run of our favourite nurse.
Showtime has usually good solid shows, so what will be paired up next season when United States of Tara is gone, we are very intiruged and looking forward to, but for another season, Nurse Jackie is safe, and hoping to keep building on it. My hopes are to see it come closer to its first season, don´t know about you.
Nurse Jackie gets renewed by Showtime and we´ll see season four probably in 2012 although no dates were announced yet.
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Last week we listed the must watches for the week. This week we are doing the same.
Let´s see what are the must watch shows for Week of March 28 through April 2
In the season opener, “Who Do You Trust,” summer vacation is over and everyone is back at school and dealing with relationships that are becoming increasingly complicated. Amy has decided she would like to take her relationship to the next level with Ricky. Ricky, meanwhile, returns to his apartment after an anxious day at the clinic to find his birth mom out of prison and looking for a place to stay. And Adrian and Ben are excited and anxious to find out if they’re having a boy or a girl. Beverley Mitchell (“7th Heaven”) guest stars as the new guidance counselor, Katelyn O’Malley, and one of her first visits is from Ashley, who decides she wants to be home schooled.
Before a three week hiatus until next original episode of Castle, we get to see te episode named Law & Murder, where during the high-profile trial of a murdered socialite, a juror suddenly tumbles out of the jury box — dead! When Castle & Beckett learn the juror was poisoned, their investigation soon uncovers that this seemingly innocent juror may not have been so innocent after all.
After all I named Stana Katic second in my Top TV leading ladies ranking, how can I not recommend this episode!
Nurse Jackie is back this monday, that makes a must watch moment. Jackie’s marriage is strained, as is her relationship with O’Hara after the intervention; Akalitus warns the staff that nearby hospitals have closed down, straining the staff and resources; Zoey publicly confesses her affair with Lenny.
Also, Edie Falco is fifth in our Top 20 Leading ladies ranking.
Showtime will definitely be on tonight. In the start of a new season, Tara wants to earn her college degree; Kate tries to plan the next phase of her life.
Another one of our Top Ten leading ladies is Julianna Margulies. This week on The Good Wife the firm sues a convicted murderer who is making money from a song he wrote about his crime.
This one is not on anyone´s must watch list, I´m sure, but the show is gaining each week on me and in this episode, when Roman becomes Alice’s assistant, he surpasses her expectations; Alonzo makes a confession.
It will be interesting to see a capable Roman.
In this week the finalists will sing songs from Elton John, and I get another shot at proving my theory about Twitter predicting American Idol results.
A round-table discussion on the state of college sports in America. Winner of 21 Sports Emmys in 15 years, HBO’s real sports with Bryant Gumbel departs from its traditional format to present a special hour-long edition dedicated to the state of college sports in America. Presented three days before the men’s NCAA Final Four tip off in Houston, the show will present an entertaining and substantive dialogue on the current state of big-time athletics in college sports, addressing hot-button issues and offering practical solutions to current problems.
I also did a special coverage and sneak peeks of Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.
The Big Bang Theory is back with a new original, where the guys try to figure out who hacked Sheldon’s online-game account.
The best reality TV Show these days in terms of educational content. You watch, you learn, and also you take things for your entrepreneur self to use in your life and business. In this episode, children seek an investor for their idea; the sharks fight for a piece of a furniture business.
Breakout Kings is the best new show so far in 2011 (Ok, so Borgias and Camelot and The Killing are yet to premiere). So by this week, it´s the best new show on TV and you need to start watching it.
In this episode a woman convicted of stabbing her husband 48 times escapes on a school bus.
And by the way… the other shows I mentioned haven´t premiered yet and still have to deliver according to expectations. Breakout Kings did it and even surpassed them by a lot.
Ok, I said Breakout Kings is the best new show, right? Well here´s one coming to challenge it for that title, and it certainly has what it takes.
I had the chance to watch the premiere of Camelot and did some spoilery review. STARZ will present the original series premiere of “Camelot” on Friday, April 1st with two hour-long episodes airing back to back beginning at 10PM ET/PT; the one-hour, 10-part series will then air weekly on Fridays at 10pm et/pt. Featuring a talented ensemble cast including Joseph Fiennes reimagining the iconic role of Merlin, Jamie Campbell Bower as the young and reckless Arthur, and Eva Green in her television debut as the darkly powerful Morgan, the character-driven series also features Tamsin Egerton (Guinevere), Claire Forlani (Igraine) and Peter Mooney (Kay).
One of the other much anticipated premieres. Showtime will air the premiere of The Borgias starring Jeremy Irons. As if that was not enough Emmanuelle Chriqui to play a guest star role, a little later the show announced Colm Feore will play Cardinal Della Rovere. Joanne Whalley is cast as Vanozza Dei Cattanei in The Borgias and Holliday Grainger joins as Lucrezia Borgia and Lotte Verbeek as Guilia Farnese.
Tune in to the 2-hour premiere of THE BORGIAS on SHOWTIME, Sunday, April 3rd at 9PM ET/PT. Following the premiere, new episodes will air on Sundays at 10 PM ET/PT.
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Ok, this one is going to be hard as hell!
First of all, what do one consider a leading lady? Does Emily Deschanel count as the leading lady on Bones? Or is it a leading duo with Boreanaz?
Well, what I did was to take her into consideration, as well as other ladies in the same situation. but I did not count anyone in bigger ensembles as Modern Family, Glee or How I Met Your Mother, where, let´s face it, there´s a big pool of talent and beauty.
There´s also the “how you rank” them factor. Is it because of the character? Is it because of beauty? Is it because of talent? Is it because of what?
Well, I did no algorithm, but ranked them as I wanted to. Therefore you can debate all you want to in the comments section.
Let´s see who made the cut
Every second of Betty White on TV is pure magic. She proved it when she hosted the best Saturday Night Live of the last few years, and she proves it every week when headlining Hot in Cleveland. The first original from TV Land, and while one might argue the show is an ensemble cast (and a great cast while we are at it), it´s Betty White´s show, hands down.
She is the number one for sure. Good thing is that Hot in Cleveland just got renewed for a third season by TV Land, and we´ll see more Elka Ostrovsky next season.
She has the very big role of being Beckett, the soon to be soulmate of Richard Castle, Nathan Fillion himself, one of the best leading actors any show could hope to get. And she does an excellent job both in the chemistry department as in those action packed scenes.
Stana Katic is one of the most beautiful actresses on television right now, and she is able to deliver a great character week in and week out. She manages to have us rooting for Beckett, and she can get us to laugh on par as what Fillion does (and that´s not easy)
You can also follow Stana Katic on Twitter where she connects on a regular basis with fans and other celebs, earning her even more points.
You can watch Stana Katic on Castle Mondays nights on ABC.
Sure, she has Alex Baldwin playing Jack Donaghy and that sure helps any sitcom. But she is the everything on that show, and although Tracy Morgan playing Tracy Jordan, Jane Krakowski playing Jenna Maroney, and the rest of the cast makes the case for biggest and best ensemble on TV (Modern Family and Cougar Town are probably the other contenders in sitcoms), she is the bread and butter of 30 Rock and she earned all those awards she has.
You can watch Tina Fey portraying Liz Lemmon on 30 Rock every Thursday at 10 PM on NBC, and you can also check some of the best quotes from 30 rock.
How can we laugh at cancer? There´s no way to be doing that, right? Well, unless you have Laura Linney headlining a show about cancer, there´s no way to do that.
She has everything a leading lady has to have on TV: She´s a talented actress, she is believable, she is good looking, she is funny, she knows how and when to cry, she develops chemistry with an impecable as always Oliver Platt, she has an affair and still manages to have us rooting for her. Hands down one of the best shows from last year class. We are waiting anxiously for season two of The Big C already. After all, she did win a Golden Globe for her performance.
A drug-addicted nurse struggles to find a balance between the demands of her frenetic job at a New York City hospital and an array of personal dramas. She takes Oxicodin, House takes Vicodin. And that´s not the only thing in common. They both headline very good shows, and Edie Falco, as Hugh Laurie does, manage to portray their characters in a unique way that has us all rooting for them even though they are not very likable characters when you look at them.
She´s been great ever since The Sopranos and she keeps it up in Nurse Jackie, a show we are waiting for its second season to start.
Julianna Margulies is at her best in this series. Even better than her ER days, Her husband involves her in the scandal, but the story is hers. She leads the show and she does it in a very compelling fashion.
One can feel what she feels, one can understand her, take side with her, and also realize that her quest for happiness is not at all easy. We root for her, we suffer with her, we get tired with her, we get frustrated with what happens to her.
Good TV!
Yes, Fringe got renewed for a season four, and that means that we get to see more of Olivia Dunham, and the best thing about a show with an alternate universe is that we get to see twice as much Anna Torv in Fringe, we see her brunette and we see her blonde, we see her here, we see her there. Olivia Dunham square!
Fringe is a cult show, with soon to have a fourth season, and also, perhaps a show that can reach the 100 episodes threshold that divides regular shows, from network classics. Fringe is nearing, Anna Torv is a big reason why.
Yes, being among such a great huge cast hurts her chances to be higher in this scale, but she proved she has great comedic chops; and broke the Friends curse, even kickstarting a comeback that Matt Leblanc and Matthew Perry both got too.
She plays a very good role in a very good sitcom that fortunately wandered away from its original concept. If you caught the first couple of episodes, when Cougar Town was actually about Cox being a Cougar, you would have probably left soon. Luckily, the show took a turn for the best and entered the pack: Christa Miller, Busy Philipps, Ian Gomez, Brian Van Holt, Josh Hopkins and Dan Byrd are the stars on a show whose center is Jules. Brilliant show… with a bad title… a very very bad title.
Sure it helps her chances being in Showtime. A network that pushes the envelop. She plays a suburban mother who takes good care of her family… and by the way, she´s a weed dealer.
In the same lane as Michael C Hall´s Dexter, she makes a criminal likeable, and that´s something not easy to do.
She has also some other things going on for her as to make the cut into the top ten… she´s beautiful, she´s talented, she can go from the sweet and innocent to the hardass in a matter of seconds. Oh, and those big eyes surely help too.
Ok, let´s see. First of all, Sarah Shahi is breathtakingly beautiful.
Second of all, she plays a character very compelling (After all, USA Network is about characters, right?).
Then, add up that she whistles, she yells, she cries, she laughs, and she does all that wholeheartedly.
Fairly Legal is one of the best new legal dramas, and it´s just a matter of time before USA announces the renewal for it. Deservedly so I might add.
In case you´ve missed Fairly Legal, give it a try, you´ll like the show very much.
Ok, this is the first part, the top ten leading ladies in TV Scripted. This article is about the top 20, so the next week I´ll post the second part.
Who are still in the mix to get there?
Let´s see:
What did you think about the top ten leading ladies of Scripted TV? How about the ones pending? Who should make the cut?
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Nurse Jackie is one of the biggest additions of this season TV, and irrupted on a low hits TV Moment, and is giving it all…
Yesterday Nurse Jackie S01E09 aired. How big a fan of the show are you??
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Jackie and Kevin take the girls to the park. Fiona pitches a fit when one of her balloons pops and the parents watch with pride as Grace offers her sister one of hers and then, when Fiona says no, she lets hers go. They think she’s doing better.
They sit and eat lunch. Grace worries about the germs. Jackie gives them both money to buy candy. Grace offers her mom the money back if she doesn’t go to work. She wants the hospital to burn down. Jackie goes to the bathroom and snorts her pills. When she comes back she tells Kevin she’s not going to work. He tells her the world won’t fall apart every time Grace gets upset. He’ll be with her, it’ll be fine.
Jackie kisses her good bye and leaves.
Walking into the hospital, she waves at a homeless man she knows. She watches as he collapses on the street. She goes to help him and notices blood. It’s coming from her nose.
Thor and Mo Mo read the obits. Thor reads a name and Mo Mo tries to guess their age based on their name. It’s fun til they get to a 10-year-old boy named Quentin. Jackie comes in and briefs them on Mr. Everett, the homeless diabetic.
Jackie supervises as Zoey checks his head for signs of a stroke. His toes are gangrenous. O’Hara checks his toes and says he’s going to lose one. Mrs. A drops by to say All Saints is a hospital, not a shelter.
Back in her office, Mrs. A hangs with the unclaimed baby and grooves to Billie Holiday.
Back downstairs, Cooper accepts a bag lunch from Melissa Greenfield, the hot daughter from last week. Jackie walks around the corner and he calls her over. Jackie remembers Melissa and her mom but it’s pretty clear Cooper’s iffy on the details of her mom, his patient.
In the ER, paramedics bring in a stoned kid who’s brain dead from a car accident. Jackie wonders where Cooper is as they prepare to call for a transplant team. Jackie goes through the kid’s pockets, announcing she found the organ donation card when she finds a PETA membership.
Mrs. A comes for Mo Mo, very serious and businesslike. In her office, Mrs. A peppers him with questions, the purpose of which isn’t entirely clear. She checks that he’s gay, notes that she’s not and asks if he has friends with kids. She wants to know how his friends adopted. He says he’ll find out. She would appreciate that. She shoos him away.
Jackie asks Mo Mo where Cooper is. He’s nowhere to be found and is ignoring his pager. In the waiting room, a snooty looking woman calls Jackie “nurse” and asks her when someone will see her kids. Her two young boys have lice. Jackie checks her address and asks why she’s not at her neighborhood hospital, or pediatrician’s. She could deal with it at home, Jackie points out. But her pediatrician is a family friend.
Mo Mo tells Jackie the brain dead pot kids’ parents oppose organ donation.
As Jackie scrubs the kids heads their mom harangues them for sharing helmets with kids at school. Jackie tells them she thinks it’s nice they share. She tells them they’ll have to wash their head again tomorrow. Their mom asks if they can’t just do it all here. She really doesn’t want to touch them, she explains.
Jackie calls a pharmacy to get the lice shampoo, half a dozen boxes sent to the woman in no bag.
A man from children’s services tells Mrs. A they found the parents. They stepped forward. She doesn’t want to hand him over, not just because they named him Dalton.
Jackie and Eddie lay on his cot and he closes by suggesting he meet her kid.
Zoey tells Jackie if Mr. Everett had had his foot looked at last time, he wouldn’t have lost it. Jackie insists she told her to have a doctor look at it. Zoey consults her notebook of things Jackie has said, including a quote in which she dismisses Mr. Everett. Jackie is unmoved. She asks where Cooper is. The transplant people need him to sign something. He’s in exam room 3, with the door locked.
Cut to Cooper making out with Melissa the lunch bringer. Jackie knocks on the door, then shoves the door open to find Cooper with his pants down and shirt unbuttoned. He says no one told him. She picks up his pager and then tells him he’s useless.
Jackie walks out and tells the transplant team that she saw Cooper certify brain death, she’s not sure of the time, but that’s good enough.
Jackie sits in church, then snorts half a pill. Her nostril starts to bleed.
She goes to see O’Hara. O’Hara is worried about her, amazed she can juggle a husband and a boyfriend. Her sister in Paris is doing the same thing, but wracked with guilt. Jackie isn’t pleased O’Hara talked to her sister about her. O’Hara says she didn’t use her name and, by the way, she’s in Paris. Plus, she thinks of Jackie as a sister. “Think again,” Jackie says to a stunned O’Hara.
A policeman leads the parents who abandoned their son into Mrs. Akalitis’ office. He’s staying, he’s the grandfather. The father says they made a mistake. The mom says they haven’t any fun in a year. Mrs. A says she has some bad news: their baby is dead. They start to cry and Mrs. A relents. He’s not dead. She pulls him in his baby seat out from behind her desk.
She tells them not to be stupid with him. Mrs. A holds him and is reluctant to let go when the mom reaches for him.
Jackie sits at the intake desk. She sees Zoey’s notebook of quotes nearby. She thumbs through it and sees the page that says Jackie told her not to call a doctor for Mr. Everett. She tears it out.
Jackie stops by the lounge and sees people dancing on TV. She calls Grace and suggests they do something, just the two of them, like a cooking or dance class. Grace thinks it’s a great idea.
Nurse Jackie irrupted on a low hits TV Moment, and is giving it all…
Yesterday Nurse Jackie S01E08 aired. How big a fan of the show are you??
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Jackie and her husband walk Grace to school. Little Fiona has cupcake all over her face so Jackie takes out a napkin to clean her up. Her granules of pain meds fall like sprinkles on her daughter’s cup cake. Seeing them fall, Jackie swats the cupcake out of Fiona’s hands, telling her there was a bug on it. Close call.
The kids and Kevin say good bye across the subway platform as Jackie shoves a pill in her mouth.
At the hospital, Jackie arrives to find that the beds are full and they’re four nurses short.
Mrs. Akalitis introduces Jackie to a temp Sam, who’s trying to take insurance information from a patient with three wallets who was hit by a car and has a head would. Sam doesn’t appear too swift, so Jackie takes over.
Jackie tells Zoey she’s going to be on her own today and she needs to do better than last time when she gave a pill seeker six percocet for a non-existent broken finger. Zoey doesn’t think she can be fooled this time, she watched a show last night that taught her how to read drug use by flashing a light in someone’s eyes.
Jackie assess the waiting room asking who there is in so much pain they can’t raise their arm. Those that do go to the bottom of the list. For everybody else it’s a three hour wait. A few people leave, Jackie figures they’re drug seekers.
A guy comes in with a clearly busted hand, bleeding. As she takes him in back Zoey announces that this is the kind of thing they’re talking about.
Cooper looks over the head wound woman. After he leaves, Jackie has her sit up and the woman’s clearly in pain. She didn’t tell Cooper because she didn’t want to disturb him.
Mrs. Akalitis goes back to her office, where the unclaimed abandoned baby is still hanging out.
Mo Mo brings head wound woman’s other daughter back to see her. She wants her daughter Melissa to meet Cooper when he comes back.
Jackie tries to decipher the temp’s notes, which are vague at best. She sees him sitting nearby texting, not responding to a persistent beep. She takes him over to the nearby patient whose machine has been beeping for half an hour. Jackie asks the patient if Sam has checked on him recently. He hasn’t. The patient asked for a glass of water for his pills, but got nothing. Mo Mo tells Jackie that CAT scan paged Cooper six times about Mrs. Greenfield, the head wound woman, but he hasn’t responded. Jackie tells the ignored patient that if he doesn’t get everything he needs in the next five minutes Sam will give him $50. She gives the patient a watch to time him.
Zoey examines an enormous man in pain, treating him as if he’s not really hurt. She tries to get tough with him, asking him why he’s really there, but Mo Mo comes in with his x-rays. He has a fractured fibula and needs some Vicodin.
Jackie sees Thor on his way out and forbids him from leaving. She convinces Mrs. A to take her paperwork so she can grab some food but immediately runs into Cooper. He wants to know why everyone’s looking for him and she yells at him to try answering his pager. As she yells, he snaps a rubber band on his wrist, a new technique he’s trying for the inappropriate sexual touching.
Jackie’s cell phone rings. It’s Grace, calling from her new school, saying she can’t breathe, it’s an emergency. Cooper comes back, indignant and fired up, and starts shouting at Jackie that she can’t talk to him like that. Jackie tries to calm her freaked out child while fending off the freaked out childish doctor. She finally shouts at him to shut up, she’s talking to her kid. That news shuts him up.
After she gets off the phone with Grace she tracks him down, making a limp plea to keep her private life private. He says he won’t tell anyone but she doesn’t believe him. In his defense he says that her life isn’t that interesting, he’s a doctor and he doesn’t care.
Jackie calls her husband to tell him about their daughter’s panic attack.
Zoey rolls the enormous man down the hallway and accidentally goes over incompetent Sam’s foot. She apologizes profusely, but he didn’t notice. Zoey is suspicious. She tries her new light-in-the-eyes technique to check for drug use. He’s glassy eyed.
Jackie grabs lunch with O’Hara, there on her day off. O’Hara lights up. She’s not allowed to smoke in there, but they’re too afraid to tell her not to. Jackie tells her about Grace’s panicked call. O’Hara thinks Jackie sounds a bit angry at her as well. And then Cooper found out she has a kid.
Cut to Cooper telling Eddie that Grace has a kid.
Then back to Jackie smoking profusely in the restaurant. A waiter comes over to tell her not to, but sees O’Hara and tells her to smoke away.
Eddie tells Cooper to keep Jackie’s news to himself and not be one of those doctors who spreads rumors about nurses.
Cut to slow-mo pill granules bouncing on a counter and Jackie going in for a snort in the bathroom. Then Zoey busts, but doesn’t seem to see anything.
As they wash their hands later, Zoey tells Jackie she thinks the temp is on something. Jackie tells her you never rat on a fellow nurse unless you’re sure. She lays out the evidence. Jackie says OK, nice catch.
Cut to Jackie watching the temp make a bed but enjoying the feel of the sheets way too much. She’s on it.
Jackie and Cooper check on Mrs. Greenfield, who is more interested in introducing her younger daughter to Cooper than whatever is going on with her. The older daughter Amy interrupts the flirting to ask what’s going on with her mom. She needs exploratory surgery for a mass.
Mrs. Greenfield tells Amy to chill out and the frustrated daughter steps outside the curtain. Jackie goes to talk to her, giving her advice on who to see in oncology and how to fill out the insurance forms to save haggling.
Then later in the hallway Cooper stops Amy, telling her she seems like a no nonsense kind of girl and asking if she thinks her sister would go out with him.
Jackie tells Sam the stoned temp 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.” She asks him to repeat what he said but he walks away.
Jackie drops by Eddie, exhausted. He asks how her kid is. She apologizes and asks if he wants to get coffee. He says it’s fine, she can explain when she’s ready. He asks if there’s anything else he should know about. No, says the married mother of two.
At his bar, Jackie and her husband look over their daughter and think she looks fine now. Jackie’s name is called to the open mike. She resists, but relents when Kevin tells her Grace put her name in. She sings James Taylor’s “Up on the Roof” and watches as her daughter smiles. Then the smile fades and she recedes back into her world of worry.
Nurse Jackie irrupted on a low hits TV Moment, and is giving it all…
Yesterday Nurse Jackie S01E07 aired. How big a fan of the show are you??
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Jackie tells O’Hara they’re putting Grace in private school. It’s $4,000 if they join the parish and $7,000 if they don’t. O’Hara offers to pay. Jackie says thanks, but she can’t. As they sit outside, a mentally ill man they call God shouts down curses from an apartment across the street. He’s off his meds. Jackie notices O’Hara has on two different shoes and wonders if everything’s OK. Eddie pages Jackie.
In the ER, they work on a guy with multiple stab wounds and a knife sticking out of him.
Mo Mo works on Mrs. Akalitus to buy something to help them lift heavy patients. She says no, then wonders who the baby on the counter belongs to.
Cooper comes in to check out stab wound guy. O’Hara lets him stay. Jackie has Zoey hold gauze over a wound. When Zoey says she’s capable of doing more important things Jackie tells her to move her hand. Blood spurts. “See? That’s important,” Jackie says.
With Cooper in place, O’Hara abruptly announces she has to leave.
Zoey really wants to take the knife out of the guy’s chest. Jackie explains you never remove a foreign object, the surgeons do that. “But it’s so tempting,” Zoey says.
Jackie finally goes to see Eddie. He texted her six times last night. He has something for her. “I got you a little something extra today, above the standard fair,” he says. He hands her a jewelry box.
He wishes her happy anniversary. She’s confused, it’s not March.
Now he’s confused (she’s clearly citing the wrong anniversary). She covers by saying she’s just tired. It’s been a year.
She won’t try on the bracelet. He says he gets it. “Its a stupid f—- bracelet from the guy you’re banging. Too bad it’s not Vicodin.”
He mocks her repeated requests for pills and says everything’s always on her terms. She gives back the bracelet, saying she doesn’t need any of it. Neither does he.
Jackie walks down the hall to find Zoey with a police officer, outside the room of a sex offender who was messing with 3rd graders. His testicles were swollen so a doctor ordered a catheter. Zoey tried to get it out, but couldn’t. Jackie checks with Zoey to ask if she deflated the balloon at the end. She didn’t.
Jackie calmly walks over to the man, telling him he’ll feel a little pressure. Then she promptly yanks the thing out sharply as the man howls in pain.
Mo Mo hauls her outside, saying he doesn’t want her to get in trouble. She rationalizes that the man is a pedophile, then explains that she had a fight her man, uh, male, gentleman, uh, boyfriend. He didn’t even know she had a boyfriend.
Outside, “God” yells down at everyone.
Cooper eats in Eddie’s pharmacy, suggesting they go to Atlantic City. He opens the jewelry box. Cooper says it’s unisex and tries it on. He says he bought a Cartier watch two days after graduating from med school but he was robbed at gun point. Eddie says he doesn’t really feel like talking, and if Cooper likes the bracelet so much, he can have it.
O’Hara walks by Jackie in the hall. She’s out of sorts and asks Jackie to check on steak knife’s people. Jackie tells the woman he was on a date with whose ex-husband stabbed him that he’s in the ICU with stitches. The woman says he was a great guy after a string of jerks and it was their first date. “He’s not going to call me, is he?” she asks Jackie.
Mrs. Akalitis walks around with the baby in her arms, asking whose baby it is.
Jackie sees Mo Mo talking to an upset Zoey. “God” told her her hair is thinning. Jackie tells Zoey to stop going outside.
In her office, O’Hara tells someone on her cell phone to please never call her. Jackie knocks on the door and comes in. Jackie tells O’Hara about Eddie and the bracelet and Cooper now wearing it. Jackie asks if she wants to tell her what’s up. O’Hara pops a Xanax and says it’d take a bucket of Scotch to get it out of her. She offers Jackie a pill. Jackie says she would like one, yea. “Is that bad?” But she’s a lightweight, she says as she palms six or seven pills. O’Hara splits one for her as she shoves the rest in her pocket.
Out in the hallway, Jackie takes another. She walk’s by Eddies window and says she’s sorry. She goes inside. They make up. He asks if she still wants the bracelet. She says sure.
In the hallway, Eddie mock robs Cooper, telling him to put his hands up and give him all his jewelry. Cooper hands it over.
Mrs. Akalitis continues to walk around with the baby in her arms, asking who he belongs to. Finally, she decides to call social services.
Jackie checks on Zach the stabbing victim. She tells him his date is waiting for him. But he wants someone with a clean slate and no problems. Jackie ups his morphine then starts talking about his date again, saying maybe everything after this will be a piece of cake. She pulls out Eddie’s Cartier love bracelet, saying she found it on the subway and she thinks his date will love it.
Jackie goes to get the date, giving her a wipe to get the junk food off her face.
O’Hara walks in and closes the door behind her. She’s envious that Jackie’s going home to a family and she’ll be going home to nothing. Jackie invites her over, saying she could stay in Fiona’s room. “Actually,” O’Hara says, “I prefer Grace’s.”
God shouts down at them as they head for O’Hara’s town car. Jackie shouts up at him, telling him to leave her nurses alone, to pick on criminals and white guys. He asks who her friend in the heels is, now that’s a woman. Jackie shouts at him to get back on his meds. He apologizes and shouts down the time.
At her kitchen table, Jackie and Kevin listen as O’Hara wraps up her tale of woe, which apparently involves her step-father, a criminal.
The next morning a very hungover O’Hara waits for her coffee as served by Fiona. She notices an electric bill on the counter and stuffs it in her purse.
Grace comes in showing off her new uniform. O’Hara says it lacks a French braid, and sets about remedying the problem. Kevin doesn’t seem to be a fan of fancy O’Hara. He notices the bill is missing. Grace worries because her dad bought the wrong color bike shorts and God (the Deity, not the mental patient) might see them.
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Jackie tries to sell her daughter Grace on private school as she makes a costume for Fiona in her husband’s bar. Grace has heard the nuns whack knuckles there, she’s not too thrilled.
Off to work, where Jackie is greeted by a hacking patient. Paula has lung cancer and is smoking. She knows she shouldn’t, “it’ll kill me.” She used to work there with Jackie. She was just told she’s out of options and should check into hospice. But she wants to go out a little sooner rather than later, “with a shred of dignity in tact…with a little help from my friends.” She waits for Jackie to figure out what she means.
Jackie wheels Paula around where she harasses Mo Mo and asks if bed five is still doing its magic, killing people frequently. She tells Mrs. A she wants her to know she doesn’t hold her years of s—- treatment against her. Mrs. A offers to help expedite things in hospice, even if it means she has to pull someone else’s plug.
Jackie looks at Paula’s chest x-rays with O’Hara, explaining they worked together for 15 years. O’Hara asks if she’s going to help Paula. Paula would do it for her, Jackie says. O’Hara offers to help but Jackie turns it down.
O’Hara leaves and Zoey comes in, lurking briefly. Then she excuses herself, realizing she’s intruding on a private moment.
Jackie’s cell rings. It’s her youngest, Fiona. She’s supposed to be asleep, but is wearing her sunflower costume as her pajamas. Pondering a dying woman’s cancer, Jackie’s happy to hear from her.
Jackie goes back to contemplating the x-ray.
Dr. Cooper greets a patient on a gurney. It’s his mother (Blythe Danner). The paramedics think it could be her gallbladder. His mom tells him Lilly insisted they come to his hospital. He says he can’t treat her, so O’Hara pokes her instead. Lilly (Swoozie Kurtz) comes in. O’Hara takes note as Cooper also calls her mom. He has two mommies.
Jackie tends to Paula on her floor. Zoey asks if she should be going up to hospice. Paula informs her she’s not going there. “Like I need more sad s— in my life.”
A patient is wheeled in next to Paula. Jackie recognizes him as Cat Ball Guy, the dude whose cat clawed his junk. This time his fingers are bloody and bandaged. The cat flipped the switch on the garbage disposal while he was fishing for a fork. Paula hears his nom de ER and guesses precisely what happened to him. When she worked there, she says, a guy came in with one ball in a baggie.
Jackie draws Paula’s curtains.
In the bathroom she fills a syringe with morphine as O’Hara guards the door. Zoey scurries in, sees O’Hara and scurries back out.
O’Hara tends to Cooper’s mom. She needs surgery and wants Cooper to assist in the “opening of my abdominal wall.” O’Hara agrees, as long as he doesn’t touch anything.
Cut to surgery, where they remove her gallbladder. Cooper asks if they can keep it. But then her machines start beeping — her bp is dropping. Cooper handles the crisis by grabbing ahold of OHara’s boob. She pauses, waiting for him to unclench. When he does, she says “that’s a good boy” and goes about saving his mother.
Out at the desk, Zoey approaches O’Hara with her best professional voice, asking for a moment of her time. She senses Jackie is going through something and she thinks as her protégé its her duty to support her. O’Hara tells Zoey her instincts are spot on. O’Hara listens pseudo-receptively, enjoying Zoey, as Jackie listens behind her. Zoey goes on, saying that she thinks because they’re both nurses “in the trenches together” Jackie should know she’s there to support her. O’Hara tells her what Jackie needs right now is mountains of hugs, even if she tries to run. Jackie smiles to herself behind her. Then Zoey turns and Jackie says boo.
Mo Mo rubs Paula’s feet. She gives him her old subway tokens. Fishing through her purse she finds her apartment keys and wonders who to give them to.
Mrs. A walks up, wanting to know what Paula’s still doing there. Paula fishes in her purse for something for her and comes up with the bird.
At his mom’s bedside, Cooper chats with his other mom Lilly about how hard his Tourette’s was for him as a kid. He changed his name from Shinehorn. He tells Lilly he loves her more because she taught him how to drive stick and took him to Duran Duran concerts. But she says that’s because his other mom wanted them to bond. She wakes up, asking where the “little f—-” is. Her gallbladder is sitting in a jar by her bed.
“For all the pain, it sure as hell doesn’t look like much,” she says, then adding that’s the exact same thing she said when they cut the cord and put Cooper in her arms.
Jackie preps her morphine syringe then waits as life in the ER goes by.
At Paula’s bedside, O’Hara explains about Cooper’s boob grab and two moms. Eddie comes to pay his respects. When he leaves, Paula tells them he was her pipeline for Percocet after she had her hysterectomy. Jackie tries to act as if this doesn’t bother her at all and suggests going for ice. Instead, Paula tells her it’s time. Jackie preps the morphine in the bathroom stall then lays out her 16 granules to snort.
Zoey visits Eddie in the pharmacy. She tells him she thinks the nurses are planning something for Paula. Eddie looks unconcerned. She says she’s not sure she can participate in what they’re planning. He tells her not to then. But she worries they won’t respect her if she doesn’t partake in the “right of passage.”
He asks if she thinks this sort of thing happens all the time, because he’s never seen it happen. He tells her it’s a s— day for a lot of good people and no matter what she does, no ones going to judge her one way or the other.
Jackie squirts morphine into Paula’s champagne. Mo Mo and other nurses gather around her bed, glasses raised. Zoey steps in, saying she wants to be there. Paula raises a glass to herself. “Here’s to you and here’s to me. And if we ever disagree f— you. And here’s to me.”
She chugs. Then she asks Jackie for a priest. She interrupts a priest doing last rites for a patient. Checking the patients pulse she says he’s got 10 minutes and she needs the priest for five.
After the priest blesses Paula and leaves, Jackie repeats Paula’s last words. The nurses all giggle. Then Mrs. A pulls back the curtain, telling them if there’s anything funny with Paula’s IV, she’ll have their asses.
Jackie goes to Paula’s apartment. It’s filled with boxes, waiting for the end.
