EPISODE
SEASON
Nurse Jackie - Season 1
The show follows sharp-tongued and quick-witted Jackie Peyton, a nurse trying to survive the chaotic grind of saving lives in a hectic New York City hospital and find a balance between the demands of her frenetic job and an array of personal dramas.
26 September 1964, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
7 April 1967, Staten Island, New York, USA
16 September 1988, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
13 February 1960, Brooklyn, New York, USA
19 December 1961, Jamaica, New York, USA
13 September 1969, USA
March 24, 2014
Jackie isn't the only reason to watch Nurse Jackie. There's a lot to like here: From the slow, woozy rain of painkiller granules, to the fuzzy haze of Jackie's world post-bump, the show just looks really good.
June 08, 2009
At times, there's a dangerous undercurrent of anti-sentimentality, a risk of sentimentalizing curmudgeonliness itself. But for all these flaws, I still found the series excitingly ambitious - funny, sexy, strange.
June 08, 2009
A splendid new addition to pay-cable's stock of dark comedies that keep a human heart beating behind the laughs.
March 24, 2014
Above-average writing and some great supporting characters suggest plenty of potential, and as far as pilots go, this is quality stuff.
June 08, 2009
This is a character study, and the pleasures are in the performances, chiefly Falco's as a person more strung-out than Dr. House and more crackling than an impatient diner waitress.
June 08, 2009
Offers both gripping drama and outrageous comedy.
August 15, 2014
Like Weeds, Nurse Jackie is a wonderful balance of tones, segueing seamlessly from drama to comedy.
June 08, 2009
Struggles to strike a consistent tone, switching between the more issues-based, authentic medical drama of shows like the BBC's Bodies and the more flighty episodic comedy of Scrubs. Fortunately, Falco is spot on.
June 08, 2009
The sorts of moral dilemmas that would take up an entire episode of Grey's Anatomy - organ donation, assisted suicide - pass by here without a blink. Characters make their choices, then move on. This is a show about consequences, not actions.
June 08, 2009
Half-hour dramedy that's more drama than comedy, showcasing Edie Falco's numerous charms outside of the realm of suburban Mafia angst.
