Nurse Jackie

wow, anyone who has followed the show all season and still cant appreciate any of its many mesmerizing qualities simply cannot appreciate show business itself. if you fancy TV dramas, not to mention shows involving hospitals, nurse Jackie will quite possibly be your favorite show of all time. with some of the best acting in a TV show possibly ever and a nail biting, creative plot, anyone can be easily captivated by this 10star TV show and have them begging for the next season. watch this show! You will not regret it. one last note: complements to the supporting cast of Edie Falco, they were truly superb. never before have characters been so likable.

Yes, I watched all seasons. At first it was okay. It wasn't really funny, there are a few spots that I laughed. It got a little "broken record" for my liking. I am honestly glad that ended it because I was begining to hate Jackie. Everybody bent over backwards for her and she didnt care. I felt like she broke Zoey's spirit in the end. I honestly think they could have wrapped this up after a couple seasons. They didn't need to drag this on for this long.

The premise of this show is a study of addiction in a Nurse who can function while still being an addict. The focus is supposed to be on the characters and their interaction with one another. The problem is that it's set in a hospital where the medical situations are totally implausible and unbelievable. Many of the things that the nurse does in the series would just not be possible in a hospital. She knows more than the doctors, speaks to people like she's in charge etc. While I'm all for strong female leads in series, they have to be put in believable situations, not constantly living in a fantasy world. This departure from reality gets worse as the series progresses. If attention had been paid to detail, and maybe the show had a medical consultant to advise on the situations, it might have a bit more credibility.

I watched the first five seasons on cable and watched the last two on Netflix. I am a registered nurse (for 39+ yrs). I was a huge fan of the show's initial seasons. I had great hopes for it. I give the series high marks for realism, with the exception of Jackie's ability to be a super clinician when high. I worked with impaired nurses throughout my career. I have been manipulated, used and lied to. I have been set up. I have had to fire a nursing aide for coming to work drunk in a hospice for a night shift. I have been Thor, Zoe and Akalitus. Their roles are painfully accurate beyond description. The performances are five-stars throughout. I could go on and on about individuals but I think giving everyone an A+ in the ensemble is as big a compliment as I can give. My major disappointment is with the writing. The humor and repartee of the earlier seasons were the perfect counterpoints to Jackie's selfish depravity. In fact, when I have worked with impaired nurses, the atmosphere tended to be just that. Some impaired nurses are masters of distraction by way of entertainment. They hook their coworkers on the drugged personality, not so much on the quality of the nursing. I think the ending of the series would have much more effective if the train had bustled along those quick-witted rails with less kudos for Jackie's nursing expertise. In fact, it would have been truer to life if she had gradually screwed up more often on the job.

Good premise. Decent first season. Then, not unlike too many other shows that start out with a lot of potential Nurse Jackie quickly runs off the rails and never gets back on track. This show suffers from the all-too-typical "caricatures rather than characters" syndrome. There are simply too many one dimensional cartoon characters in this show to even begin to take it seriously. "Coop". Zoey. Thor. All cartoonish immature 1 dimensional clowns. And that's simply unacceptable. So is its schizo nature of taking itself way too seriously then not taking itself seriously enough. And so is the problem of having no one to really care that much about. So in short, this show is neither here nor there, and as such, the net result is a big waste of time. Furthermore the continuity from one season to the next is hands down THE WORST of any TV series I've ever seen. It's like the writers/directors/editors/producers were all on PCP. The gaps and unexplained events from one season to the next are appalling and any semblance of suspension of disbelief is totally destroyed. But possibly the biggest problem with this show is that it SEEMS to be focusing on addiction, when in fact, it's the lead character is a sociopath who is also an addict. Jackie has no conscience whatsoever, and her persistent incorrigible behavior makes it impossible to want anything for her except incarceration. Rarely has one TV character generated so much hatred. My suggestion? Please...pull the plug on this rotting comatose vegetable already.