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Hey guys,
Nurse Jackie, a new half-hour series, starts on Showtime on June 9th. It stars Edie Falco (Carmela from "The Sopranos"). You can watch the first episode on Hulu right now before it premies on televission.
The show's tagline on IMDB is " A 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."
One of the reason why I think that this show may be popular amongst Bluelighters is that among Nurse Jackie's "array of personal dramas" is a back problem which she must self-medicate or risk losing her job.
Most interesting to me is the show's theme of the hospital staffs' illicit drug use. This theme has been talked about in other hospital dramas ("House" comes to mind) but I think that this is the first show to use that as one of its main plot points--and to do it so convincingly
The first episode only touches upon the Falco's character's drug use--throughout the episode she is seen snorting and unidentified narcotic and a main plot point seems to be her relationship (read: workplace fucking) with a doctor who provides her with Oxys.
But there appears to be a lot of room for development. Check it out!
Nurse Jackie, a new half-hour series, starts on Showtime on June 9th. It stars Edie Falco (Carmela from "The Sopranos"). You can watch the first episode on Hulu right now before it premies on televission.
The show's tagline on IMDB is " A 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."
One of the reason why I think that this show may be popular amongst Bluelighters is that among Nurse Jackie's "array of personal dramas" is a back problem which she must self-medicate or risk losing her job.
Most interesting to me is the show's theme of the hospital staffs' illicit drug use. This theme has been talked about in other hospital dramas ("House" comes to mind) but I think that this is the first show to use that as one of its main plot points--and to do it so convincingly
The first episode only touches upon the Falco's character's drug use--throughout the episode she is seen snorting and unidentified narcotic and a main plot point seems to be her relationship (read: workplace fucking) with a doctor who provides her with Oxys.
But there appears to be a lot of room for development. Check it out!