You hear a lot about shows that were cruelly cut down in their prime, when the people working on them still seemed to…

The fifth season premiere of Nurse Jackie opens with Jackie, who was dismissed from her job at All Saints Hospital at…

Showtime doesn’t lack for series full of people engaging in bad, transgressive behavior. This is because Showtime is a…

Nurse Jackie—despite what you may have read in this very space—isn’t a workplace comedy. It’s a war comedy, about…

Nurse Jackie ramps it up a notch tonight, in ways that are good and ways that I need to get back to you on. Bobby…

Tonight’s big guest star is Joel Grey, playing Dick Babbit, a doctor from Akalitus’ past who has contracted dementia;…

A few weeks ago, I wrote that this season of Nurse Jackie looked to be about accountability and responsibility. I don’t…

It sometimes takes me a while to think of things that might seem pretty obvious in retrospect, which, depending on the…

Being a show filmed in New York, Nurse Jackie has an asset in its access to the New York theater world. Mostly, what…

Part of what’s impressive about Bobby Cannavale’s performance on Nurse Jackie is that he never turns on the charm. It…

Now that Jackie is in rehab, this series may yet arrive at an inspiring message about how facing adult responsibilities…

Looking at certain famously decadent rock stars who are on the wrong side of middle age, it's possible to wonder if the…

It's a good thing that Nurse Jackie got picked up for another season, because tonight's season finale wouldn't make…

The last episode of Nurse Jackie before the season finale aimed for a balance of laughs to tide us over and promises of…

The best episode of Nurse Jackie since this season started was a tribute to  both the power of a good supporting cast…

We're at the three-quarter mark of this season now, about to head into the homestretch, and can I just take a moment to…

Because Nurse Jackie recognizes its responsibilities to its viewers, tonight's episode begins with a scene establishing…

Tonight's episode obsessed over a subject that used to be central to Nurse Jackie but that has been de-emphasized of…

(For the next several days, some of our writers will be swapping duties on some of our most popular shows. Some of them…

Tonight, Nurse Jackie mostly stuck to the hospital and the surrounding area, which was fine, since the glimpses of…