- Network: SHOWTIME
- Series Premiere Date: Jun 8, 2009
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Jackie can be a dark show, and it's going to get darker. But there isn't an episode that doesn't leave you yearning to see the next. There also isn't a performance that doesn't work.
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Not consistently funny, perhaps, but when Best and/or Falco are on screen, the angels sing. Both are remarkable.
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It’s a remarkable performance in its straightforward simplicity; she’s like a feral animal ferociously protecting her secrets.
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It's now even easier to get so caught up in the dramas that you can forget this show is really funny.
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I watched all of Season 1 and have seen eight episodes of Season 2, and beyond noticing that she's good at her job and not so good at her life, I still haven't figured out Jackie Peyton. Which is the way I like it.
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Jackie remains the superior effort thanks to its writing and a top-of-their-game cast headed by Edie Falco as the title character.
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What has been ramped up in this season are Jackie’s unexpected kindnesses and cruelties. And this is what makes the show so great. She constantly sidesteps all expectations and usually for the worse.
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In its mix of the caustic and the compassionate, Jackie is as electrifying as its star.
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The moments in which Jackie and the people in her ER find common ground -- that's when this show achieves liftoff.
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By having everyone around Jackie seem daft, quirky or incompetent--an attempt at humor, one would guess--the series never felt connected. Those elements improved by the ended of Season 1 and have, for the most part, been ironed out in the early episodes of Season 2 (though the tone will need to be monitored).
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Jackie remains watchable because of Falco's no-nonsense, weary performance, and because of the off-kilter comic brilliance of Merritt Wever as Jackie's bubbly, spastic protégé Zoey.
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The show continues striking a good balance with its moments of dark humor.
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It’s a treat being able to enjoy their black comedies back-to-back Monday nights, but “Nurse” shows symptoms of a serious malady: serial recidivism. We’ve seen all this before. It’s time for Jackie’s world to come crashing down, the sooner, the bigger the laughs.
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Nurse Jackie no longer feels realistic.
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Yet while Jackie remains a fascinating conundrum--a woman who takes noble stands and cuts corners on behalf of her patients, while hanging by a tenuous thread in her personal life--the brooding tone can become stifling.
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The few plot lines that don't revolve around her sex appeal--such as her older daughter becoming everything-aphobic, Eddie becoming crazy, and Dr. O'Hara (Eve Best) moving at warp speed on her self-destruction path--are all so interesting, it makes you long for more.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 30 out of 33
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Mixed: 1 out of 33
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Negative: 2 out of 33
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Jan 26, 2011
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Aug 10, 2010This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.