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Nurse Jackie: season 1, episode 12
"Season Finale"
August 24, 2009 - 10:08p.m.
First off, allow me to apologize for skipping episode 11. I was on vacation last week, and I didn't get a fellow AV Clubber to cover for me in time. So, to the dozen or so of you who ...
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Nurse Jackie: season 1, episode 10
"Ring Finger"
August 10, 2009 - 04:08p.m.
Jackie: Laugh or cry?
Eddie: [already chuckling] Laugh!
That one exchange could basically sum up the whole of this fast-paced, almost uniformly upbeat episode. Sure, there were a couple of notes of sadness, mostly with the young cardiac arrest patient ...
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Nurse Jackie: season 1, episode 9
"Nosebleed"
August 3, 2009 - 10:08p.m.
How nice was it to have Fiona nearly ingesting several granules' worth of drugs atop her chocolate doughnut at the beginning of last week's episode, and then yelling, "Look how high I am, Mom!" at the beginning of this ...
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Nurse Jackie: season 1, episode 8
"Pupil"
July 27, 2009 - 10:07p.m.
"Yesterday was St. Lucy. She plucked out her eyes, but she could still see. Then she died, but God gave her prettier eyes in heaven."
Ah, The Lives Of The Saints. They're like bite-sized, God-approved horror stories for Catholic ...
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Nurse Jackie: season 1, episode 7
"Steak Knife"
July 20, 2009 - 10:07p.m.
God was everywhere in this episode of Nurse Jackie, in the hallway, judging Jackie as she walked past; Inside Grace's anxiety-ridden head, just waiting to judge her by the color of her bike shorts; and, mostly, spewing colorful insults ...
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Nurse Jackie: season 1, episode 6
"Tiny Bubbles"
July 13, 2009 - 10:07p.m.
What we learned this episode:
1. Coop has two very glamourous, elegant mommies. (Blythe Danner, his "Vagina mum," and Swoosie Kurtz, aka "the other one")
2. Coop's tit-grabbing Tourette's is apparently real.
3. Jackie gets antsy whenever anyone ...
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Nurse Jackie: season 1, episode 5
"Daffodil"
July 6, 2009 - 10:07p.m.
So, which was more surprising: Mrs. Akalitus tasering herself, or that sensible-sneaker-wearing Jackie can accurately identify Easy Spirit career collection pumps? I'll say the tasering, if only because "Grrr, I'm Jackie!" seems to know everything—and no one ...
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Nurse Jackie: season 1, episode 4
"School Nurse"
June 29, 2009 - 10:06p.m.
It has taken four episodes, but one of Jackie's other shoes (and by my count she has at least three, each from different pairs, perched on the precipice) has finally dropped. Jackie and her terminally bland husband are summoned ...
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Nurse Jackie: season 1, episode 3
"Chicken Soup"
June 22, 2009 - 10:06p.m.
This episode of Nurse Jackie, far more than the previous two, revealed a common drawback of this nebulous genre known as the half-hour TV dramedy, namely, picking a side. Considering that a show can't be precisely 50% comedy/50 ...
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Nurse Jackie: season 1, episode 2
"Sweet-N-All"
June 15, 2009 - 10:06p.m.
The pilot episode of Nurse Jackie ended with occasionally benevolent, morally ambiguous Jackie coming home to her exceedingly sweet, rather dopey, irritatingly affable husband's pancake dinner. Episode two picks up in the kitchen later that night as Jackie cuts ...
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Nurse Jackie: season 1, episode 1
"Pilot"
June 8, 2009 - 10:06p.m.
On paper, Edie Falco's Jackie Peyton sounds a lot like the nursing equivelant of Hugh Laurie's Dr. Gregory House: both are sly, curmudgeonly, uniquely gifted medical professionals who also happen to be addicted to painkillers. But Nurse Jackie ...
