--- title: A Bitter Angel in Showtime's Nurse Jackie description: In Nurse Jackie, Edie Falco is an addict who just might save your life canonical: https://time.com/archive/6688626/a-bitter-angel-in-showtimes-nurse-jackie/ author: James Poniewozik article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2009-06-15T04:00:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-27T16:59:10.164Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: A Bitter Angel in Showtime's Nurse Jackie og:description: In Nurse Jackie, Edie Falco is an addict who just might save your life og:url: https://time.com/archive/6688626/a-bitter-angel-in-showtimes-nurse-jackie/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6751c6486493358b/698a4789b3fce359ba0cb9c3/360_anurse_0615.jpg?branch=production&width=360&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 360 og:image:height: 203 og:image:alt: 360_anurse_0615.jpg og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: A Bitter Angel in Showtime's Nurse Jackie twitter:description: In Nurse Jackie, Edie Falco is an addict who just might save your life twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6751c6486493358b/698a4789b3fce359ba0cb9c3/360_anurse_0615.jpg?branch=production&width=360&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) # A Bitter Angel in Showtime's Nurse Jackie > Sponsored content. 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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [James Poniewozik](https://time.com/author/james-poniewozik/) Jun 15, 2009 4:00 AM UTC  Jackie, Falco, left, focuses on the taxing physical work of nursing. Jackie, Falco, left, focuses on the taxing physical work of nursing. by [James Poniewozik](https://time.com/author/james-poniewozik/) Jun 15, 2009 4:00 AM UTC For the first few seconds of _Nurse Jackie_ (Showtime, Mondays, 10:30 p.m. E.T.), you might believe you are staring into heaven. Everything is white — the glaring light, the ceiling, the walls. Then the camera pans down to a figure on the floor, dressed to match in blinding hospital whites. The only colors in the scene are a pink blotch of gum on the worn sole of her shoe and an amber prescription bottle — holding the Vicodin capsules that, we learn, she cracks open to snort the brilliant orange grains inside, medicating a bad back and her emotional state. If Jackie Peyton (Edie Falco) is an angel of mercy, we quickly learn that she is, in more ways than one, a fallen one. And she is one of the most interesting people you’re likely to meet on TV this year. _Nurse Jackie_ is getting the jump on a TV calendar heavy with new medical shows. (_Hawthorne_, with Jada Pinkett Smith as a nurse, debuts on TNT on June 16.) But this black comedy is less melodramatic than your typical prime-time IV drip. Nursing, as Jackie practices it at New York City’s All Saints Hospital, is hard labor: taxing drudgery that ruins your back and gets you punched out by the occasional unhinged visitor. ([See pictures of _ER_‘s long run on television.](https://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1887605,00.html)) It also saves lives — sometimes in spite of the efforts of doctors, who, in _Nurse Jackie_, are at worst arrogant and obtuse, at best brilliant but detached. Her best friend, surgeon Eleanor O’Hara (Eve Best), lays out the differences in their mind-sets: Jackie, she says, became a nurse because she wanted to help people. “When I was a little girl,” Eleanor says, “I took a butter knife and opened up a dead bunny to see how it worked. That’s why I’m a doctor.” _Nurse Jackie_ has a fine-grained sense of hospitals’ feudal hierarchy, but it’s ultimately about the paradox of Jackie: she’s dedicated and moral in her professional life but — in ways it’s better not to spoil — hurtful in her private life. As when Falco portrayed Carmela Soprano, she plays tough while letting her emotions spark from every nerve, and she shows a gift for tart comedy here too. To get her job done, Jackie needs to be part nurturer, part con artist, part stand-up comic. “What do you call a nurse with a bad back?” she asks in a voice-over. “Unemployed! Ba-_dum_\-bum!” Some of the supporting characters need work (especially a too sitcommy administrator played by Anna Deavere Smith), and some patients-of-the-week veer into clichés. But Falco is outstanding as a living reminder that you meet angels only in the next life. It takes a flawed, sloppy human to keep you in this one. 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