Monday, June 8, 2009

DON'T MESS WITH NURSE JACKIE


Nurse Jackie, Showtime, 10:30 EST (KSLAZ gives it **** stars)

Edie Falco's characters have always amazed me. She was brilliant as a prison guard in the insanely sexy drama Oz. She mastered the role of a mafia wife and mother on the mega hit The Sopranos. Now she is playing Nurse Jackie - the star of a new Showtime TV series that debuted after Weeds this past Monday.

Jackie is a modern day Robin Hood, helping the "good" and screwing over the a-holes. One of my favorite parts of the premiere episode was when she was talking about a nun she had while growing up in New York. She said that this nun told her that no matter how good someone can bring to the world they also have the potential to be the just as evil. She acknowledges that some of her decisions on the job can be defined as scandalous but she is able to justify her actions by feeling she is doing something to help people.

In this first episode she forges a deceased bike messenger's organ donor card, flushes a douche bag's ear down the toilet and snorts Oxycontin she gets from the adulterous affair she is having with her afternoon sex buddy in the pharmacy department. Normally someone whose claims these practices as normal behavior in her daily life would be deemed an awful person. But in the end you are rooting for this woman to keep on living life this way - fighting for what she believes in. Edie Falco brilliantly plays this character who will surely have many more scandals up her sleeve that will make for amazing TV.

I'm very much looking forward to next week. Also, I'm REALLY glad John and I picked Showtime instead of HBO in our cable package. Weeds and Nurse Jackie are going to make Monday a day I look forward to this summer!

1 comment:

AAWG said...

Kevin - you are the only person I've ever heard call Oz an "insanely sexy drama" - LOL!