Nurse Jackie: Season One
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Actor: Edie FalcoBrand: Lions Gate
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 333 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2010-02-23
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Lionsgate
Movie Reviews of Nurse Jackie: Season One
Movie Review: A Perfect Platform for the Brilliance of Edie Falco
Summary: 5 Stars
I see some complaints that "Nurse Jackie", as played by Edie Falco, is not a positive role model. They have a point - Jackie cheats on her husband with a pharmacist who thinks he is her main squeeze, so that Jackie can be kept with a steady supply of narcotics.
But like the proverbial onion, Jackie has layers, and like another of my favorite Showtime eponymous characters, Dexter Gordon, Jackie is not by any stretch "all evil" and she is never, ever boring.
Jackie's an adulterous druggie - but she's more. Years of having to literally manhandle patients in the Emergency Room more than twice her size have left Jackie with an aching back, and she could pursue more permanent treatment, but she and her family need this week's paycheck, so she masks her painful back with ill-gotten hard stuff. Merritt Wever plays Zoey, a young nurse who is everything Jackie is not - naïve, inexperienced, and as likely to want to cuddle her patients as treat them. The interactions between the experienced Jackie and the still-learning Zoey are one of the cornerstones of the show.
Jackie does things on the other side of "ethical", but like Robin Hood, she does them because her heart is in the right place. She knows desperate patients wait for potential donors, so when a brain-dead bicycle courier is brought to her ER, Jackie forges the dying man's signature onto an organ donor card.
If she sees nurses or doctors doing wrong or even not doing as well as they should, Jackie gets in their face. She is not the touchy-feely one in her department. But she is the one the others go to if they're in a tough spot.
Eve Best plays Dr. Eleanor O'Hara, an experienced New York doctor who is as anxious to use her doctor's wages to buy the latest fashions as her doctor's skill to take care of patients. Peter Facinelli plays Dr. Fitch Cooper, a new and inexperienced E.R. doc who finds himself often on the receiving end of Jackie's verbal and physical barbs. Haaz Sleiman is great as Mohammed "Mo-Mo" De La Cruz, another ER RN with a heart of gold who has fought in the trenches with Jackie for years. Paul Schulze plays Eddie the pharmacist boyfriend. Dominic Fumusa plays Jackie's solid gold husband, Kevin. Kevin tends bar and helps raise their girls, and when you see Kevin in action you wonder how in the world Jackie could cheat on him.
But Jackie doesn't live in a world that is black and white. Since the real world has plenty of grey, I'm willing to overlook Jackie's faults in favor of the entertainment of her company.
Summary of Nurse Jackie: Season One
Three-time Primetime Emmy® winner Edie Falco is "outstanding? (TIME Magazine) as Jackie Peyton, a nurse trying to survive the chaotic grind of saving lives in a hectic New York City hospital. Sharp-tongued and quick-witted, Jackie?s a woman of substance who knows how to handle it all. With a white lie here, a bent rule there, and a steady dose of pain relievers for her chronic back pain, Jackie does whatever it takes to get the job done. See why critics call NURSE JACKIE "wildly entertaining? (TV GUIDE Magazine) and "a habit well worth acquiring? (THE WASHINGTON POST) in these bitingly funny episodes from the first season of the groundbreaking series.Similar DVD Movies
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