I'm basically just looking for shows I described in the title.
I thought it'd be a good place to ask, with it being bluelight and all lol.
I love both Nurse Jackie and House.
In case anyone doesn't know, I'd say both shows come in the dramady category.
Nurse Jackie is about a Nurse called Jackie (lol). She's very good at what she does, get's the job done, but also doesn't play by the rules. She goes out of her way to help patients, even putting her neck on the line, and sometimes to fuck things up for them (in cases where it is really really deserved). She's an interesting, strong, likable character. She is also secretly a drug addict. She abuses vicodan, percocet, oxycontin, oxycodone, morphine sulphate and occasionally adderall.
She is addicted to opiates and has a complex web of lies to obtain prescriptions for them, steal them from work, lie about her back to get a doctor friend to give her them, and is also having an affair with the pharmacist for oxy/percocet/vicodan. Despite being married with two daughters.
At the end of the pilot, she quotes Saint Augustine saying "Make my good, God. Just, not yet".
Once you get into it, it is an EXCELLENT show.
I'm a bit behind just getting into House (or House M.D). The main character is Dr House a very intelligent doctor working in a hospital, who is openly addicted to vicodan, but walks with a cane and has a legitimate pain condition. He is also very anti-social and hates seeing his patients. Yet, you can't help liking him. He's always sarcastic and often funny. I was hooked from episode one.
I very highly recommend both shows whether you are an addict/user or not.
Does anyone know of any similar shows (not necessarily in a medical setting) where the, or one of the, main characters is an addict?
I loved "Weeds", too, although I know Nancy wasn't an addict.
I like shows where the main character has a dark secret, I guess.
I like Breaking Bad because he's secretly makes and sells crystal meth. I love Dexter. Weeds. Intervention (although that's a documentary series) < ditto My Strange Addiction.
(unrelated shows I love are: Game of Thrones, Nip/Tuck, Dead Like Me, Family Guy, American Horror Story, a lot of others).
I thought it'd be a good place to ask, with it being bluelight and all lol.
I love both Nurse Jackie and House.
In case anyone doesn't know, I'd say both shows come in the dramady category.
Nurse Jackie is about a Nurse called Jackie (lol). She's very good at what she does, get's the job done, but also doesn't play by the rules. She goes out of her way to help patients, even putting her neck on the line, and sometimes to fuck things up for them (in cases where it is really really deserved). She's an interesting, strong, likable character. She is also secretly a drug addict. She abuses vicodan, percocet, oxycontin, oxycodone, morphine sulphate and occasionally adderall.
She is addicted to opiates and has a complex web of lies to obtain prescriptions for them, steal them from work, lie about her back to get a doctor friend to give her them, and is also having an affair with the pharmacist for oxy/percocet/vicodan. Despite being married with two daughters.
At the end of the pilot, she quotes Saint Augustine saying "Make my good, God. Just, not yet".
Once you get into it, it is an EXCELLENT show.
I'm a bit behind just getting into House (or House M.D). The main character is Dr House a very intelligent doctor working in a hospital, who is openly addicted to vicodan, but walks with a cane and has a legitimate pain condition. He is also very anti-social and hates seeing his patients. Yet, you can't help liking him. He's always sarcastic and often funny. I was hooked from episode one.
I very highly recommend both shows whether you are an addict/user or not.
Does anyone know of any similar shows (not necessarily in a medical setting) where the, or one of the, main characters is an addict?
I loved "Weeds", too, although I know Nancy wasn't an addict.
I like shows where the main character has a dark secret, I guess.
I like Breaking Bad because he's secretly makes and sells crystal meth. I love Dexter. Weeds. Intervention (although that's a documentary series) < ditto My Strange Addiction.
(unrelated shows I love are: Game of Thrones, Nip/Tuck, Dead Like Me, Family Guy, American Horror Story, a lot of others).
